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For two years, UC Berkeley Engineering graduate students Gianluca Piazza, Phil Stephanou, and Justin Black were developing an atomic clock far tinier and cheaper than today's technology. They hoped that in the future, their sugarcube-sized device, accurate down to ten quandrillionths of a second per day, might improve data encryption, speed up computer networking, and boost the accuracy of the Global Positioning System (GPS). Then opportunity rang. The students realized that one of their clock components also had the potential to revolutionize cellular telephone electronics. In the last few months, their idea has brought them gold in three major business plan competitions. Now it's time to start a company.

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