Foreign entrepreneurs learn how innovation is done in Bay Area

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- They come from all over the world to visit Silicon Valley hoping to make a lifetime's worth of connections.

It's two weeks for entrepreneurs from abroad to learn how innovation is done in the Bay Area.

Fadi Bishara created Blackbox five years ago. Entrepreneurs from all over the world come to learn from successful founders, venture capitalists and from each other.

They hear straight talk about finding the right investors and take field trips to the big corporations that could one day acquire their startups. And possibly even some funding from investors.