Start Your Own YouTube, Pocket Billions

A quick link via Techmeme to VentureBoard, a new social-networking meets venture capitiol site. Now you can create the next YouTube in your garage today and get bought by Google tommarow? I think this benefits VC’s because they’ll have access to start-ups while they’re really young and are willing to sell a lot cheaper than some companies as of late. Think about it: what would YouTube have sold for a year ago?

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Google to offer free Wi-Fi in New York City ?

From Andy Beal/C-Net: Google has officially opened it’s new offices in NYC. One must wonder what long-term plans Google may have in possibly setting up a Wi-Fi network (read:free Wi-Fi) similar to the one set-up in it’s home of Mountain View, CA. Not that you can’t already find free Wi-Fi in parts of the city, but it’s probably in Google’s pipeline. I think this offical transition to NYC just shows how big Google has become in regards to being more than just a search engine.

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