Is America’s Aversion to Risk Threatening Entrepreneurship?
America is a nation that was born by people willing to take extraordinary risks. The settlers who came here put their lives on the l...
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Entrepreneurship
13 recovered essays in this topic.
Improve Your Entrepreneurship: Find Your Inner Child
Anyone who has been a parent knows that if we pay attention, we can learn a lot from our children. After years of being bot...
Becoming CEO of a Venture Backed Company: Are You Ready for Combat?
Years ago when I was much younger and contemplating starting my own dot c...
Networking or Nyet-Working?
As a venture capitalist, I end up attending my fair share of evening events and conferences. When my wife (who grew up in Russia) and I were dating, she asked me about what I do at these types of events. I told her that…
Top Questions to Ask a Venture Capitalist in the First Pitch
You landed your first pitch at a venture capitalist’s (VC) office. You’ve practiced the pitch and have your laptop fir...
Top Questions to Ask a Venture Capitalist in the First Five Minutes
So, you’re at a networking event and you get an opportunity to talk with a Venture Capitalist (VC) for just a few min...
Feeling Blue About Green? Reasons for Cleantech Optimism...
There are so many easy reasons to be a pessimist today: the world financial crisis, the discord and dysfunction in Washington, and ...
Obama Cleantech Stimulus: Bad Policy, Bad Politics and Bad for Cleantech
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,…
Top 5 Things Cleantech Entrepreneurs Fail to Understand About Raising Venture Capital
After decades of venture capital investment, growth and exit, the traditional focus areas of venture capit...
How to Build a Cleantech Company Without Huge Investment Capital: A Case Study
While many cleantech companies require very large amounts of capital in order to get to market, there is a quiet group of cleantech companies bucking that trend. Companies like Heartland Biocomposites (Green Building…
Cleantech Venture Capitalists are Human Too
Sectors like solar, biofuels and smart grid have received a significant overweighting of venture capital investment compared to other sectors. Is this because they are better investment opportunities or because venture…
Human Capital, Not Venture Capital, the Biggest Cleantech Challenge
Building great businesses typically requires three key ingredients: phenomenal people, compelling technology and investment capital. Cleantech companies are no exception. While cleantech venture capital investments have…
The Green Gold Blog Launch
After joining Access Venture Partners over two years ago and heading up our cleantech investments, I contemplated starting a blog. But the...