THE garage in which Hewlett-Packard was started in 1939 is now a private mu-seum-a modest monument to the cut-price creativity and bare-knuckle entrepreneurship that made Silicon Valley famous. Drive south from Palo Alto through 20 minutes of inevitable traffic to Sunnyvale and you will find a landmark of a different kind. Nothing of technological note has taken place there. But in February this small two-bedroom house, which boasts just the sort of garage a startup would once have felt at home in, sold for $2m, 40% more than its asking price, within two days of listing-a new record for the area. That translates into a price of $25,386 per square metre ($2,358 per square foot).
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