GreenGold archive
Essays on entrepreneurship, clean technology, venture capital, innovation, and public policy.
The bubble has burst. The hype and euphoria of 2008 and 2009 is a distant memory. Fueled in part by the externality of the handouts from the stimulus package, and the (now fleeting) spike of natural gas and oil prices,…
As a venture capitalist, I am exposed to all the latest fads in business expressions. When a word or phrase is hot, I ...
You landed your first pitch at a venture capitalist’s (VC) office. You’ve practiced the pitch and have your laptop fir...
So, you’re at a networking event and you get an opportunity to talk with a Venture Capitalist (VC) for just a few min...
Amid all the negative publicity that Solyndra’s failure has brought to the Administration’s cleantech efforts, one cleantech progr...
Go ahead -- call me a hypocrite. I claim to be a cleantech venture capitalist yet I tell you here and now that I am not convinced...
There are so many easy reasons to be a pessimist today: the world financial crisis, the discord and dysfunction in Washington, and ...
The Solyndra debacle is no surprise to this cleantech venture capitalist. The inherent conflict between trying to get money out of the U.S. Treasury as quickly as possible to stimulate the economy and, at the same time,…