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GE Plans a Sale as San Diego Smart City Project Nears Completion

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million project to replace 14,000 streetlights with energy-efficient LED lamps. The sensor-laden streetlights will be linked to a wireless network that includes 3,200 smart sensor nodes (different hardware mounted on some of the same light poles), and are intended to create an “Intelligent Internet.

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

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With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. One of the hotter companies lately in the mobile social networking is FourSquare, which raised $1.35 What exactly is seed funding anymore?

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). However, if you’re going to start a company and be an entrepreneur, you need to network and you have to hustle. to find someone they know who knows an investor, network and get an intro.

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