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Internships draw to a close, but the lessons learned live on

The Bloom Is Off the Box, and VCs Learn a Painful Lesson

It's barely been a week since a media frenzy marked the public launch of Bloom Energy, which makes a mini power plant known as Bloom Box for homes and businesses. Now, as critics take a closer look at the technology, it seems the bloom is off the box. Kleiner Perkins, the VC firm that backed the project, is learning a lesson about the pitfalls of investing in early-stage clean energy companies -- and raising the question of who should be backing basic energy research.

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