Personal Connections May Be Good for the Renewable Energy Cause

As I hoped it would be, my college reunion was a feel-good mixture of nostalgia, immersion in some good thinking offered in a few seminars, and revelry with old friends.  But it was also quite productive, from the standpoint of what we’re doing here at 2GreenEnergy. 

I’m not one to glom onto successful friends, and exploit my relationship for my own gain.  In fact, through my 30 years as a business consultant to the Fortune-sized tech and industrial companies, I honestly can’t recall hitting up a single one of my friends for introductions. 

But if you tell your story to enough people, good things happen.  I had at least two dozen conversations with classmates in which they asked me what I’d been up to, and I told them that I write and speak on renewable energy, and try to bring together excellent clean energy projects with the investment community.  Two different people, both really well-heeled, replied, “Oh, I have a few people you should know.  I’ll send them your way.” 

Wow.  I’d regarded these reunions with a certain indifference.  No more.