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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 Boston-based subsidiary, Current by GE, began work earlier this year for the city of San Diego on a $30.3

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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). We discuss Googles plan to pay more to Verizon in order to be on a higher speed connection and get its mobile content to users faster. Looking back, what did you learn and what would you have done differently? (0:14:15).

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