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Wanna Nuclear tub? Wait for Startup Hyperion’s Nuclear-In-A-Box

Hyperion Power Generation is ambitious. It wants to provide commericalized nuclear-tub-sized power plants for one and all by the year 2013. Each one can power about 20000 homes. Not bad. It is based more...
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Startup powers Wi-Fi using the sun

Solis is combining Solar (CleanTech) Energy and Wireless to provide innovative approach. more...
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4 Quick Tips on Raising Startup Funding Without A Plan Or A PowerPoint

As a member of the local Boston entrepreneurial community and a part-time angel investor, I come into contact with lots of new startups at various stages of the process. It continually amazes me how much more...
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Making Cheaper Solar Cells

Powered by $77 million in new investment, startup Heliovolt, based in Austin, TX, will build a factory next year for mass-producing a new type of solar cell that could, in much of the United States, make more...
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Powerset: A new search engine using 'natural language' search

After working on the 'natural language' search for over 2 years, licensed by PARC, they just might have it right. more...
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Natural Language Search Engine: Powerset

Licensed from PARC, this promising startup is taking shots at Google territory. more...
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Why Your Start-up Will Fail - unless you pay attention to these

This article is about the things you need to pay attention to and things you need to focus on if you want to see your startup not to fail. Most of the startups don't get to see the second birthday because more...
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Start-up taps electricity from the ground

A startup out of Harvard University, Living Power Systems is using microbial dirt to make bio-fuel cells that can power devices. Talk of hitting pay-dirt. The founder says that it is like solar energy more...
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Intellon Corp moves towards IPO

London based powerline chip specialist Intellon Corp (Ocala, FL) is set to push ahead with an IPO that could value the company at nearly $330 million. Shareholders include Fidelity Ventures, EnerTech more...
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With human-powered search engine, Mahalo takes a step forward

“We’re somewhere in between Google, which is automated, and Wikipedia, which is put together by people,” Jason McCabe Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo said in a phone call. “We believe search as a problem more...
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