Last week I functioned as a panelist at one of the so-called “Keiretsu Forums” here in Southern California, in which entrepreneurs pitch their business plans to potential investors. I really enjoy this, as it gives me practice on thinking on …
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Mentoring Entrepreneurs at the Clean Business Investment Summit – A Quick Update
In the years I’ve functioned as a member of the Clean Business Investment Summit advisory board, I’ve had some terrific experiences helping cleantech entrepreneurs (not unlike ours here at 2GreenEnergy) prepare themselves to do their best when they make their …
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Mentoring Entrepreneurs at the Clean Business Investment Summit
Today won’t be a particularly light one for me, but it most certainly will be fulfilling. As I’ve mentioned, for many years I’ve sat on the advisory board for the Clean Business Investment Summit, an annual event in early September …
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Planning Meeting for the 2014 Clean Business Investment Summit
As I’ve mentioned, I volunteer as a mentor to up-and-coming cleantech entrepreneurs who wish to present their business plans at the Clean Business Investment Summit, held annually at UCSB (the University of California at Santa Barbara). My main role is …
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Clean Business Investment Summit
Pictured here is Gillian Christie, among the most talented, charming and energetic people I know, who runs a fabulous marketing agency called Christie Communications in Santa Barbara. I’ve gotten to know her very well over the past few years, due …
Clean Business Investment Summit Has Investors Jumping In With Both Feet
I just got back from a great day at the University of California at Santa Barbara, host of the 14th annual Clean Business Investment Summit. “CBIS” is an enterprise, not unlike our own here at 2GreenEnergy, which is an attempt …
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Filmmakers’ Responsibilities to Society
I met a delightful woman at yesterday’s “boot camp” in preparation for the 2013 Clean Business Investment Summit. Barbara Kerr Condon, who has a great deal of experience in this arena, and is in the process of producing a film …
Process to Recapture Ethanol Vapors Is a Friend To the Ozone Layer
Do you know what happens in the process of the fermentation of yeast and grape juice to making the 26.2 million tons of wine made each year on planet Earth? When this subject arose at today’s session in which my …
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Clean Business Investment Summit 2013 – Coming Up Soon!
I’m proud to serve as a member of the Advisory Board for the Clean Business Investment Summit (CBIS), held annually at the University of California at Santa Barbara in the late summer. This year’s event on September 12th will be the …
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Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator Doing Great Work
I just got off the phone with Fred Walti, the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, a terrific non-profit whose purpose is to foster the development of cleantech start-ups by offering flexible office space, CEO coaching and mentoring, …
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