Most important, Bolton, with help from San Jose State graduate students, interviewed 117 women in the Silicon Valley area between 1994 and 1998 regarding work-family issues.
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One involved PayPal and Bling Nation, a startup that offered RFID tags that mobile phone users could stick onto their phones for use at 150 or so merchants in the Silicon Valley area.
Were it not for the stray dogs, a visitor could be forgiven for mistaking the area for Silicon Valley.
Many of these companies were clustered in an area known as Silicon Roundabout and included Last.
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The Johnsville area was the Silicon Valley of the 19th century, full of dreamers looking for riches.
By basing your startup in Silicon Valley or the Boston area, you also can more easily tap into talent.
Arm Holdings, based in Cambridge - an area dubbed "Silicon Fen" - designs microprocessors widely used in tablets and smartphones.
Still, no place can hold a candle to Silicon Valley and the Boston area in terms of startup activity, especially in the tech space.
Standing outside the old Motorola plant in East Kilbride, part of the area known as Silicon Glen, there's evidence of tech boom, tech bust and of some "green-shoots".
To say that Silicon Valley is a low crime area would be an understatement.
The San Jose area, home of Silicon Valley, arguably has benefited the most from the information job surge.
Silicon Valley is not the only area seeing a resurgence in hiring, as companies with offices in New York City are competing for talent.
An oft-heard statistic while I was in Silicon Valley was that the Bay Area and Seattle (where Microsofties multiply) were the America's biggest consumers of pizza, Levi's and triple lattes.
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The crunch is especially acute outside of Silicon Valley, as the Bay Area VCs focus on their home market, and the relatively fewer Series A investors in other markets can thus afford to be especially picky.
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The mere presence of a giant Silicon Valley business like Google in the area should only serve to increase the buzz.
The annual loss of millionaires from the Bay Area--home to Silicon Valley--knocks this extremely rich and fertile place down near the bottom of the new millionaire list, putting it in the company of Detroit, Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
But in the past two years manufacturing has been rising, mostly due to growth in the tech sector: a net increase of 7, 300 jobs, up 4.8%, in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan area (the heart of Silicon Valley) from April 2010 to April 2012, according to the California Employment Development Department.
In his travels to Bay Area kiteboarding hotspots he discovered other Silicon Valley folks who shared his same passion.
And there is nothing about localness that inherently, other than some periods of luck like the tech boom linked to Silicon Valley if you were in the Bay Area--but other than some, you know, kind of lucky quirks like that, there's nothing about localness which tends to breed superior investing.
There followed the dotcom boom in the late 1990s, which promised to make silicon the new gold in the San Francisco Bay Area.
But a Royal visit should help to put the tech cluster on the map, and perhaps make the government's ambitions to turn the area into Europe's rival to Silicon Valley look slightly less fanciful.
Ford's move comes as other companies based outside Silicon Valley have stepped up their presence in the Bay Area.
There are many reasons 50, 000 Germans live in Silicon Valley, and 500 startups in the San Francisco Bay area have French founders, says The Economist.
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The eastern area of Shoreditch is quickly turning into a miniature Silicon Valley for the number of start-ups and successful technology companies that are based there, including TweetDeck and LastFM.
Another recent survey finds one out of every four people in the Bay Area own stock options, one out of three in Silicon Valley.
It guided me on two routes between Silicon Valley and a bowling alley in San Francisco's Presidio area, where I had once been lost.
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In Boston proximity to a subway stop is important, and in Silicon Valley more startups are beginning to locate closer to the Bay Area and San Jose.
The 77-year-old chairman and co-founder of New Enterprise Associates said the collection's tech orientation was his wife's idea: "She said, 'Look, you're going down to Silicon Valley every day, I think if I did something in this area it might be of interest to you, '" he said.
According to the 2002 Silicon Valley Index survey by Joint Venture, a regional development body, the area was awarded more than 6, 800 patents over the past year.
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