In a colorful office on the Peninsula, students and professors agonize over code and molecules late at night, occasionally interrupting work with quick bouts of Nerf gunplay and basketball.
This is StartX, where a select group of Stanford University entrepreneurs try to turn apps or other inventions into businesses that will revolutionize society or make a killing on the stock market - or preferably both.
Image: Elliot Lui of Travelnuts sits at his work space at StartX. More than 150 companies have gone through the incubator. Photo: James Tensuan, Special To The Chronicle
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