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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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Startup Watch: Yapta Beating the Airlines at Their Own Game

One of the most frustrating things for any traveler is the seemingly random price swings in airline tickets. The same flight could be $1098 one day and $573 the next, as was the case with a flight to more...
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Ever-younger entrepreneurs

There have always been ambitious young entrepreneurs - Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University to build Microsoft, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin left a PhD program at Stanford University to launch more...
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Vantrix announces $12M in series B funding | Montreal Tech Watch

Vantrix, a Montreal-based startup, enables content providers and mobile operators to deliver TV, video, text and audio to subscribers without requiring the customer to install a specific an application. more...
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Apple co-founder backs Internet video venture

An Internet video brainchild of three twentysomething former University of California grad students has won big backers, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Red McCombs, co-founder of Clear Channel more...
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VC Draper Fisher to Invest in India with million fund; Reva, mChek, Seventymm in List

Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), a California based venture capital firm is set to invest $75 million fund in coming 3 years with already making direct presence in India via its offices in Bangalore and 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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Startup powers Wi-Fi using the sun

Solis is combining Solar (CleanTech) Energy and Wireless to provide innovative approach. more...
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5 Corrosive Co-Founder Conflicts

Most of the startup writing out there (including articles on this blog) addresses issues of strategy, finance, innovation, product development and other "fun" topics. For this article (which I hope will more...
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Top 10 Reasons Why Web Startups Fail

Web Startups fail byYour business plan should be an organic document that can adapt to change. Web Startups fail because they refuse to deviate from the plan. Listen to others, get advice and keep your more...
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