The first should be obvious: in a place like Silicon Valley, socializing is not easy.
And places like Silicon Valley will no doubt give birth to more of these services.
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Statistical averages fail us when we try to understand a place like Silicon Valley.
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Originally he was concerned he might not find much enthusiasm outside techie enclaves like Silicon Valley.
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Countries the world over have tried to develop a high-tech innovation cluster like Silicon Valley.
But for a full comeback, Europe will have to wait for an entrepreneurial culture like Silicon Valley's.
Usually we think of immigrant entrepreneurs as clustering in crowded city communities or high-tech places like Silicon Valley.
This has led to a mass exodus of talented people from boards of directors in places like Silicon Valley.
In hotbeds like Silicon Valley, employee turnover averages 12% to 20% per year.
Bottom line: Apple, like Silicon Valley itself, is setting a pace way ahead of the rest of the economy.
Even in a technological Mecca like Silicon Valley, women may find themselves turned off by a work environment geared toward men.
This tends to be more true in places like Silicon Valley, where workers are computer savvy and housing costs are onerous.
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Like Silicon Valley and Boston, Austin is already a technology hub for the computer industry, and is home to Dell and Freescale.
In this case, he appreciates how hard it can be to replace a technology that has decades of momentum behind it, like silicon.
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Billionaires are more likely to be spawned in tech hubs like Silicon Valley and Seattle and the country's financial capital of New York City.
Here are four of the top things our research points to that any company can do to cultivate this culture and innovate like Silicon Valley.
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The company created an automatic movement with the use of contemporary materials like silicon and a hand engraved rotor on the reverse side of the timepiece.
We teach people how to design ecosystems like Silicon Valley.
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For companies outside of investing centers like Silicon Valley, they can use Angellist and not have to rely on the handful of angels in a particular city to get funded.
In the most sought-after markets brokers have been reporting bidding wars, a dynamic that began getting attention last summer in places like Silicon Valley, Miami and Phoenix.
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The upper echelon of the pop-music touring business is, like Silicon Valley, dominated by a small number of enterprises: Lady Gaga, Madonna, U2, Jon Bon Jovi, Jay-Z, and a very few others.
Over that period, a large coastal affluent class, now increasingly elderly, enjoyed a spectacular run of rising real estate prices and in some places, like Silicon Valley, a progression of stock windfalls.
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For what Google is using as its measurement here is not how well the place resembles a buzzing entrepreneurial hotspot like Silicon Valley, nor even how wired and plugged in the local residents are.
So you can be more like silicon valley.
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As we build the next generations of servers and connect them together, we need a technology like Silicon Photonics to leverage that same infrastructure to meet the incredible demand for high-speed data throughput at an acceptable cost.
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These bottlenecks could radically inflate the price of basic materials like silicon and create labor shortages that would affect the costs of manufacturing solar modules, designing and installing new solar systems and operating and maintaining already installed systems.
Tech hiring has picked up in places like Silicon Valley, New York and DC, but consistently the fastest growth in science, engineering and technical jobs has been in low-cost states such as North Dakota, Virginia, New Mexico, Utah and Texas.
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But many of them do choose to locate in the expensive city and pay the high wage, and as I point out in my book, expensive places like Silicon Valley employ a larger share of American workers in high value, export industries than do cheap places like Houston.
Among the technologies are new ways of making already-commercialized formulations, like amorphous silicon and cadmium telluride, and newer formulations like CIGS, named for the elements it is made out of, copper, indium, gallium and selenium, and CIS, which leaves out the gallium.
Like many Silicon Valley techies, he launched his first startup in high school, called Trax in Space.
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