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Re:10 startups to watch by coglethorpe on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @11:45AM (#226318)
I looked at the funding for all of them: 71 million, 11 million, 4 million, 11 million again. Do these ideas really merit or need this kind of capital?

Maybe I'm just jealous. :-)

Back to the GPS... I'd love something that gave me real time traffic and construction updates. Maybe they plan on using "wisdom of the crowds" for that data? What no one needs is one more distraction from driving.

Re:10 startups to watch by mosburger on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @12:02PM (#226353)
do they report their velocity back to a home server somewhere? so then everyone who buys one would be reporting back to home-base that, e.g., there's congestion on I-5 because there's a ton of our "Dash" GPS units stuck theree, not moving?

If so, cool idea. (If not, feel free to "steal" my idea)

Re:10 startups to watch by coglethorpe on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @12:23PM (#226393)
> If not, feel free to "steal" my idea

Thanks. Now all I need is $71 million. Actually, I'd just settle for $71 million. :-)