Raising Capital for Cleantech Ventures

I’ll be leaving home next Tuesday before dawn for a series of appointments in the Bay Area.  Perhaps the meeting about which I’m most excited is with the San Francisco office of Greentech Capital Advisors.  I’m constantly trying to expand my network of relationships with the top people in the world of bringing together solid cleantech concepts with sources of investment capital, and a friend of a friend in their Zurich office was good enough to arrange this conversation.

Should I wear a tie?  If this meeting were in Zurich (or one of their other offices in London or New York), there’d be no question.  San Francisco can go either way, so to speak.  I suppose since we’ll be in the financial district, I guess I’ll dress up.  My closet-full of suits and ties from the old days doesn’t see as much action as it did in the days before all this was liberalized.