Many other Silicon Valley-based firms and top US schools have become major partners for Russian companies.
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That has fueled the creation of a Silicon Valley-like investment ecosystem that, not surprisingly, has profited many Silicon Valley businesses themselves.
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Many have company-friendly tax regimes at which the valley's businesspeople look with envy.
Unlike many social-media darlings, tech bloggers in Silicon Valley largely ignored the site until they noticed that it was growing like mad.
For the 50 or so in attendance, Director Cordray and many of his top luitenants flew cross-country to Silicon Valley to send a clear message they mean business, and to offer a nibble of a locally sourced, organic carrot.
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While there have been no shortage of successful start-ups in Silicon Valley, I argue that many of those ventures succeeded in spite of their location.
Many would argue that Silicon Valley's big law firms--such as Brobeck Phleger, Gunderson Dettmer, The Venture Law Group and especially Wilson Sansini Goodrich--are at least as powerful as its venture capitalists.
But a low level of professionalism in many media outlets, especially outside Kathmandu Valley, and self-censorship induced by the political atmosphere make it difficult for the media to rise above the challenge of disseminating accurate, timely and non-partisan information on the peace-building process.
So many Chinese expats have returned in the past few years that Valley-slang has given them a special name, B2C (back to China).
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Many of these principles have become tenets in Silicon Valley's laid-back, risk-taking atmosphere, but Bushnell believes they remain alien concepts in most of corporate America.
The villages we'd be stopping in would all be 7 to 10 miles apart on a path that follows a steady gradient up a single valley, a positively leisurely prospect compared with the up-and-down slogs from one valley to the next that characterize many Himalayan trails.
One needs a high-clearance 4x4 to reach most areas of the valley, including many of the popular sites.
The explosion of smartphones, social media and location-based services could fundamentally transform not only Silicon Valley industries but many others.
Many Silicon Valley companies, including Sun, Silicon Graphics, Bay Networks and Hewlett-Packard, have offices there.
His portraits of these mothers and their makeshift homes have the clear-eyed empathy found in many of Lange's images from California's Central Valley.
In our world-is-flat, winner-take-all economy, many futurists said the winners would fall into two camps: super nimble start-ups from Silicon Valley (and similar hotbeds) wielding world-class technology and talent and the largest multinationals with brand, reach and fortress balance sheets.
Many of the best applications come from accomplished programmers who have working product demos but lack gilt-edged Valley Rolodexes.
But Ruckus did something last week that many of the dog-roaming, cucumber water-drinking, pool-table playing startups in Silicon Valley will never do: It went public.
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In many areas, like in the San Joaquin Valley of California, the pace of development is jaw-dropping for instance, for every four acres developed prior to 1990 another has been developed since then.
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On this site, next to the proud and Valley-like announcement, "On the Web in '95, " Andreas offers many services.
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