Such is to be expected in the high-risk but high-reward world of early-stage technology ventures.
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The top half would use the liquid-fuelled core-stage technology and engine that powers the Ariane 5.
Element Six Ventures specializes in seed to late-stage technology operations that use synthetic diamond and other supermaterials demonstrating scalable and commercial potential.
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Each is designed to do a lot of the hand-holding necessary for an early stage technology venture without taking up lots of resources.
The funding is coming from Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy ( ARPA-E), which the energy department launched in 2009 and modeled after a Department of Defense program that supports early-stage technology research.
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The firm uses a foundation- and endowment-like approach to portfolio construction, investing primarily in early-stage technology companies, with some allocation to life sciences as well as early and growth investments in India and China.
But even with much ambiguity, the idea clearly caught the imagination of many attending TechCrunch 50, which aims to spotlight early stage technology companies that are prowling for funding, customers and press (in that order).
In effect, each agency may be in a different stage of technology replacement.
The fact that computers are now being used by people around the globe as a source of entertainment is powering the next stage of technology growth.
Sarayu Srinivasan is a venture capitalist, most recently with Intel Capital, the private equity arm of the Intel Corporation, where she focused on a range of stage agnostic technology investments in the U.S. and India.
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New York is rolling into its third year operating the FinTech Innovation Lab which brings together a small group of selected early stage financial technology vendors with leading city banks, Accenture and venture capital firms for three months of intensive collaboration.
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Beyond improving server and data center technology for others, the move by Facebook makes a mark on the larger global technology stage.
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At the moment, the gum is in the prototype stage, and the technology behind it awaits approval from Britain's Food Safety Authorities.
However, we see the recent outages as initial hiccups inherent in any early stage adoption of a nascent technology.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is due on stage at the Goldman Sachs technology conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco this afternoon, in conversation with Goldman Internet analyst Heath Terry.
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Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman is on stage at the Morgan Stanley technology conference in San Francisco this afternoon, where she no doubt will try to persuade investors that the turnaround at the IT giant is well underway.
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What PepsiCo10 does is to develop a process that allows us to see technology in an earlier stage that we believe could be important to our consumers.
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As chief technology officer of Health and Human Services, Park appeared on stage with Aneesh Chopra who held the newly-created post of Chief Technology Officer.
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He suggested that many companies with excellent technology got to a certain stage and then they or their backers lost confidence, selling up to American firms.
As the chart indicates, in Stage II the best sectors are banks, technology, and consumer discretionary.
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Mr Lynch added that the takeover by HP would enable Autonomy to take its technology to a "truly global stage".
Dr Dave Gallo, director of special projects at WHOI, said the next stage would be to work out what other technology might be of use - and whether the submersible could be used again.
During one performance Grillo smashed a pile of computers on stage while lamenting modern society's dependency on technology.
In a world of media fragmentation, social media ubiquity and mobile technology, content has risen to center stage as the focus of many marketing efforts.
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Most technology patent fights are over by this stage, one side paying the other something and then a general cross-licencing of all other patents.
The heart of Nectar is a semiconductor, so the device in many ways represents a new stage in the tightening relationship of energy and IT technology.
Using Interop as a platform for my own informal study on the state of the cloud, the technology has already moved beyond the hype stage and well into the adoption one.
Crazy rumors like Samsung shipping a phone with a bendable screen (which never had a chance of being true because the technology is barely out of the prototype stage), of course, proved false.
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Despite these hurdles, however, there is undeniable technology momentum occurring across the worldwide public sector stage.
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She attended Demo Days for Y-Combinator, an investment firm involved in early-stage startups, and eventually invested in the education-technology company Clever, according to people familiar with the matter.
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