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Flying car ready for takeoff?

February 15, 2006 MIT students working on a vehicle--resembling an SUV with retractable wings--they hope will carry two people on 100- to 500-mile hops. Images: Terrafugia's flying car TAGS: graduate student, vehicle, founder, SUV, entrepreneur, aircraft, car, GPS, start-up, satellite

High-stakes start-ups

June 13, 2005 Forget Sand Hill Road. Three San Francisco entrepreneurs are funding their software start-up with some killer online poker skills. TAGS: venture capital, entrepreneur, San Francisco, founder, start-up

Small is beautiful for Web 2.0 start-ups

February 6, 2006 Forget the Fortune 500. New, small software companies have big ambitions: the Fortune 5 million. TAGS: enterprise software, 37Signals, entrepreneur, Web 2.0, product development, investor, investment, start-up, dollar, software company, open source, IBM Corp.

Software start-ups feel the pinch

January 12, 2006 Small fish in the shrinking software sea are embracing open-source, software as a service to get an edge over their larger rivals. TAGS: Intalio Inc., enterprise software, PeopleSoft Inc., consolidation, entrepreneur, business software, BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., software company, open-source software, start-up, open source, IBM Corp.

Why less cash means more to tech start-ups

October 12, 2006 The key to building a successful company doesn't depend upon tapping into lots of cash, cautions venture capitalist Carl Showalter. TAGS: valuation, capital, milestone, investor, entrepreneur, investment, IPO, round, venture capital, start-up

Microsoft licensing push shifts to start-ups

May 4, 2005 Software maker has previously focused much of its intellectual-property licensing efforts on larger companies. TAGS: intellectual property, entrepreneur, start-up, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., software company, IP

Boom times ahead in networking?

September 6, 2005 After a dismal couple of years, networking start-ups are coming back, but the rising tide of venture funding isn't lifting all boats. TAGS: venture capital, Cisco Systems Inc., acquisition, networking, entrepreneur, start-up, VoIP, California

Insiders share tips for partnering with Microsoft

November 29, 2005 Microsoft executives repeat their investment mantra to entrepreneurs: Don't count on our cash. TAGS: insider, entrepreneur, Microsoft Corp., vice president, software company, start-up

Microsoft licenses new way to make friends

April 26, 2006 Start-up hopes to use technology developed by Microsoft's research unit to take on sites like Friendster and MySpace.com. TAGS: Karl Jacob, Inrix, Friendster Inc., entrepreneur, Silicon Valley, MySpace, start-up, Microsoft Corp., CEO

Does Web 2.0 bubble have a silver lining?

November 6, 2006 Not all of today's Web start-ups will survive. But the relatively low cost of getting one going means Web services are being developed fast. TAGS: JotSpot, Web 2.0, entrepreneurial, Excite Inc., Web company, entrepreneur, dot-com, venture-capital company, innovation, investor, stock market, acquisition, start-up, Google Inc., CEO, Microsoft Corp.

To clean coal, start-up GreatPoint makes gas

August 27, 2007 Reviving 1970s-era technology, an ambitious company says it can turn dirty coal into cleaner natural gas. TAGS: coal, natural gas, carbon, plant, cleaner, energy, entrepreneur, start-up, U.S.

Year in review: R&D hits the road

December 30, 2005 From robots and new fuels to private spacecraft and novel planes, the tech world was on the move in 2005. TAGS: R&D, robot, iRobot Corp., Stanford, blood pressure, nanotechnology, entrepreneur, road, health, researcher, monitoring, car, start-up
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