Rather, this is the production line that Complete Genomics, a start-up in Mountain View, California, bets will revolutionise the discovery of disease genes.

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Jayant Kadambi has a somewhat different view of the Silicon Valley Start-up Common (SVSC).

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On floors two through five, the rooms-with-a-view start with the 10 series (210, 310, etc.) and go up in irregular sequence.

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Earlier today I spoke with Richard Stephenson, founder of Yudu, a not-so-new start-up from the UK that has an interesting point of view on the future of illustrated digital titles.

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And in Hong Kong the view seems to be that buying stock in a high-tech start-up is akin to purchasing a lottery ticket.

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