Raising Investment Capital? Does Your Idea Meet These Five Criteria?
Are you trying to raise investment capital for your cleantech business idea? Perhaps you’re looking for the easiest, friendliest way to get your concept in front of someone who can help move it forward. We at 2GreenEnergy may be that “someone.”
Speaking for me personally, I like to think of myself as a “big picture guy.” I don’t have too much patience for 85-page business plans, but I absolutely love analyzing concepts at a 50,000-foot level. It takes me just a few seconds to wrap my wits around the highlights, and determine if I can help – which I sometimes can, by tapping into relationships that I maintain with VCs, angels, private equity, and institutional investors. (more…)
When we look at some of the bad actors in Corporate America, it’s possible to reason that nothing good – in the ethical sense – even comes from this quarter. But this is a horribly shortsighted and unfair conclusion. Of course, there are acts of humanitarianism and philanthropy that take the form of corporate giving, which happens to the tune of about $10 billion per year. But more germane – at least to our purposes here at 2GreenEnergy – are corporate sustainability initiatives – many of which are completely sincere, and utterly massive in scope.
In the course of the radio show I recorded yesterday the interviewer asked me, “Craig, what do you think college students can do to lead ‘greener’ lives?”
A fine young man, Rudy Chavarilla, called me this morning from 
In the course of something I wrote yesterday I noted: “In large measure, the world is in its deplorable condition precisely because we tolerate it.” What I should have known is that this sentiment was expressed 100 times better by one of the great Americans in history: abolitionist, lecturer, author and slave Frederick Douglass:
