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...
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Technology Innovation
18 recovered essays in this topic.
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…
Now That the Cleantech Hype is Gone, the Real Venture Investment Opportunity Begins
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,…
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...
A Shining Star of Bipartisan Cleantech Support
Amid all the negative publicity that Solyndra’s failure has brought to the Administration’s cleantech efforts, one cleantech progr...
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 ...
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...
You Call This "Cleantech"?
Invest in a solar, biofuels, or LED lighting company, and nobody will question the company’s cleantech pedigree. Inve...
Meet the Rodney Dangerfield of Cleantech
Wind turbines stand tall and mesmerize with their motion. Solar cells bask in the sparkling sun. Meanwhile, hidden down in the dark dirty underworld, a compelling technology sits quietly and gets no respect. Once…
Cleantech is a Bunch of Hot Air!
While renewable energy often captures most of the cleantech headlines, if anyone doubts why energy efficiency must play a significant ...
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 Economics 101: Higher Fossil Fuel Prices; More Cleantech
With all the complexities of cleantech policy and technologies, there is only one simple thing needed for an explosion of competitive clean technologies – increased price of fossil fuels. The amount of R&D expenditures…
Will 2010 Be the Year of Cleantech Revenues, IPOs and, Maybe, Even Profits?
As a “gearhead” (engineer) I must admit I truly enjoy looking at all the cool technologies being developed by cleantech companies. The prom...
Feel-Good Government Grants Leading Cleantech Astray
Grants for smart grid projects. Grants for battery manufacturing lines. Loan guarantees for renewable energy project development. Grants ...
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...