Posts Tagged by start-ups
Congress: Sincere in Helping Small Clean Tech Businesses?
| August 30, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Electric Vehicles |
A friend of mine who is trying to raise public or private money for his extremely well-conceived electric vehicle start-up just wrote to me with words that ring true:
[We’ll be attending the] upcoming Annual Congressional Business Summit, and this is a point of focus for me right now. I don’t know what they will do, other than to hear them say, “Wow what a neat idea.” I guess I shouldn’t be a cynic, but the last 14 months have opened my eyes as to the two-facedness of Congress. They like to talk about how small business is the source of 80% of the new jobs, and then promptly deliver money to the large corporations that spend most of their time trying to make sure small businesses evaporate. Millions in campaign support and a veritable army of lobbyists seems to be working just fine.
How Are Great Start-ups Built? Core Trust and Affinity? Or Cold, Rational Assessment? – Part Five in a Series
| July 11, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Renewables - Business |
Lance Miller, president of DieselTek, speaks with on how start-ups form in clean diesel — or anywhere, for that matter. Lance corroborates my own belief that great partnerships are built on core, innate trust and affinity than on a cold, rational appraisal of a partner’s value in some sort of mathematical equation.
As it turns out, both Lance and the company’s founder and CEO, Eric Wheeler, have had their hands on mechanical devices — and had life circumstances that steered them towards entrepreneurship — since they were boys.
