From small start-ups to iconic organizations known around the world, there is this tremendous vibe in this part of northern California that seems to draw all kinds of young people eager to pursue their individual ideas and passions in an environment where the unconventional approach is embraced enthusiastically.
Tech company Apple is another example of a beloved brand that went from a small start-up to towering giant, and both walk the thin line between popular underdog and willful superpower.
Important innovation will continue to come from small Silicon Valley start-ups.
There was a great graphic (that I now cannot find) showing that all net new jobs of the past two decades have come from small businesses and start-ups.
In past recessions, recovery and new jobs have emerged from start-ups and small growth companies.
Over the last 15 years, nearly ever new job created came from business start-ups or small businesses.
Setting the right cultural infrastructure is what separates scalable start-ups from small businesses.
We can start small, working from the poor neighborhoods out.
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Talent poaching is happening at all levels, from technology giants like Facebook and Apple to small start-ups.
And it may not be long before these two industries start to suffer from this one small innovation with dramatic repercussions.
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But this thing has evolved from the start, and from a massive monolithic oil spill to thousands and hundreds of thousands of small patches of oil.
It would be similarly hard to tinker with automatic rises in the minimum wage, even though that would make sense when, from the start of 2002, France's small businesses will have to observe the shorter working week of 35 hours.
In health care, for instance, Christian Democrats want to start decoupling contributions from wages by introducing a small flat-rate premium.
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True, 21 small units house start-up businesses ranging from fish-packing to futon-covering.
We discovered elected leaders and policymakers were eager to hear from us and get our feedback, even though eBay was still a small start-up as opposed to the big corporation it is today, and our suggested language was inserted in the bill that passed.
It would disadvantage small fund-management start-ups that badly need initial help from soft brokers.
In a matter of months, once approval comes from the Federal Aviation Administration, his workers will start assembling up to four small, ultralight jets a day.
He was responding to a question from Conservative MP David Rutley on what the government is doing to help more small businesses start up on the country's high streets.
Dr Gillespie cites evidence from the Small Business Survey carried out last year, showing 46% of new-start business owners were motivated to start up a business because they could see a market opportunity.
And at Ferrybridge, Scottish and Southern Energy are to start a small pilot plant shortly, though they are not seeking funding from the NER 300 competition.
Immigrants are twice as likely to start businesses as native-born Americans, and statistics show that most job growth comes from small businesses.
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As the cloud continues to level the playing field for businesses large and small, we are seeing fast adoption that has helped to unleash great ideas and innovations by organizations from start-ups to large outfits.
For decades now many people have acknowledged that most job creation comes from the growth of small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), and of course all SMEs were first entrepreneurial start-ups.
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