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Recent Articles about Mountain View

How to Find a Bay Area Start-up Location

Do you want to play with the big guns on the peninsula, go with the flow in SoMa, or carve out a different niche in the East Bay?  Read more

Obama Speaks at Google

Various presidential candidates have been making the pilgrimage to Mountain View to speak at the offices of Google. It's good PR, not to mention access t...  Read more

What's Behind Google's Tactics?

A new lawsuit could shed some light. Plus, bringing off-shore insurance tactics to the U.S., and the rest of the day's news for entrepreneurs.  Read more

New Boom in Silicon Valley

The office space market soars. Plus, a plan to make more female angel investors, and the rest of the day's news for entrepreneurs.  Read more

Google for Business

Is it just me, or does Google enter Read more

Aaron Patzer Ditches His Desk

A year after he sold his company to Intuit for $170 million, Mint’s founder has turned his attention away from Silicon Valley. Beach volleyball anybody?  Read more

The World's Smartest Car?

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: Go...  Read more

Worst Customer Service, IPO Hope, and a Pizza Prank

Makings of a comeback? The Wall Street Journal has some good news this mornin...  Read more

Demo Day's Coolest Ideas

Here's a brief recap of a few of the more creative start-ups (and hair styles) from 500 Startups's Demo Day at General Assembly.  Read more

A New Chapter for E-Books

After falling flat in the early 1990s, are digital books ready to fly? Entrepreneurs are betting that new technology is creating a legitimate market.  Read more

Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 - Sam Altman, Loopt

#4 SAM ALTMAN LOOPT Age: 22 Location: Mountain View, Ca...  Read more

A Plan for American Tech and How to be an Angel Investor

Geek squad for the common good. What should President Obama's tech policy look like? The Yankee group released a paper yesterday with some suggesti...  Read more

Snapshots: Hall of Fame IPOs

An overview of what has happened to six Inc. 500 Hall of Fame companies since they embarked on an IPO.  Read more

Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 - Aaron Patzer, Mint.com

#5 Aaron Patzer Mint.com Age: 27 Location: Mountain ...  Read more

Edifice Complex

Why is it that people who build companies become obsessed so often with building buildings, too? And why do they do it like this ?  Read more

A New Chapter for E-Books

After falling flat in the early 1990s, are digital books ready to fly? Entrepreneurs are betting that new technology is creating a legitimate market.  Read more

Take This Deal and Shove It

Funding. Everyone in the Bay Area seems to need it, but oddly enough, CEOs are rebuffing venture capitalists more and more. The reason: check out those term ...  Read more

Google Redirects Chinese Traffic

Search giant Google has begun redirecting traffic away from Google.cn, its main Chinese site, and to Google.com.hk, this afternoon.  Read more

Why the High-Tech Industry Loves Manor, Texas

The tiny town has become a laboratory and proving grounds for Web 2.0 technology.  Read more

InDinero Fixes Money Management

Jessica Mah, the 20-year-old CEO of inDinero, is improving upon what QuickBooks has done and is making financial tracking easier for small businesses.  Read more

The Defiant Ones

Europe has concluded that it must work harder to recognize and nurture growth businesses, and what that means to you.  Read more

Dining a la Data

The owner of a chain of Chinese restaurants explains how and why he turned to technology to automate his eateries.  Read more

Cromemco's Never Taken A Dime From Anyone

In five years, the company's revenues soared over 8,000%. Yet it has never sold equity and rarely borrows money.  Read more

Portland Plays Perception Poker

Can a thriving little city in Maine bluff its way into the ranks of big-time Internet players?  Read more

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The Spirit Of Independence; The Valley

"The man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds." -- Mark Twain  Read more

Who's in Charge Here?

A portrait of the relationship between a founder and a professional manager.  Read more

The 500

#13 APPLIED SYSTEMS INC. UNIVERSITY PARK, ILL. You saw it in the stock market. You've seen it in the merger-and-acquisition activity. ...  Read more

Storm Clouds Over Silicon Valley

As blind faith in the infallibility of high-tech companies falters, the era of unrestrained growth in the Valley may be over.  Read more