Innovation Toronto

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SAN FRANCISCO — Housing prices in Silicon Valley remain defiantly high. New BMWs and Saabs cruise Highway 101. But for the first time there are signs that the current economic downturn is taking its toll on the country’s cradle of technology and innovation.
Job growth has slowed, start-up companies are hiring and spending [...]

IT’S a pickle of a paradox: As our knowledge and expertise increase, our creativity and ability to innovate tend to taper off. Why? Because the walls of the proverbial box in which we think are thickening along with our experience.
 

Igor Kopelnitsky
 
Andrew S. Grove, the co-founder of Intel, put it well in 2005 when he [...]

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“I had one of the best jobs in the world,” said Chris Sacca, who left Google. “But there is a world of opportunity.”
SAN FRANCISCO — Chris Sacca had a plum job as the Wi-Fi guru at Google. But with his stock options fully vested, he left the Internet search [...]