As I’ve mentioned many times, I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing many hundreds–perhaps a thousand–of cleantech business plans. I would say, to be charitable, that maybe one in 20 holds any water. Most of the others are asinine, and some …
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Top Renewable Energy Author/ Consultant/Investor Evaluates Cleantech Business Concepts Free of Charge
As the old saying goes, “Businesses are like babies: fun to conceive, but hell to deliver.” And in cleantech, there’s an excellent reason this is true, according to best-selling author, business consultant, and investment coordinator, Santa Barbara, CA-based Craig Shields. …
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2GreenEnergy at the Keiretsu Forum
Once a month, I get together with a small panel of angel investors at the local chapter of an international group called the Keiretsu Forum, where we review a few cleantech business plans, as presented by representatives of these forms’ …
New Technologies—Clean or Otherwise—Face Steep Hurdles
A reader mentions a series of meetings he attended on technologies that can be applied to coal plants to clear up their emissions, and, in reference to one of them, notes: This is just one of many potential “cleaner fossil …
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California Carbon and Low Carbon Fuel Standard Summit
Each year, I attend somewhere between 10 and 15 conferences on energy and the environment, sometimes as a speaker, but always as an active participant in meeting people and encountering new ideas and cleantech business plans. It’s also important to …
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Projections in Cleantech Business Plans Should Be Reasonable
Here’s a report that predicts that a certain market, in this case, the market for Flexible AC Transmission Systems will grow to $1,386.01 million in 2018. That’s about $1.4 billion – predicted to the nearest $10,000? This is a mistake …
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Dealing with Population Growth and Issues of Sustainability
Here’s a very solid and accessible article on population growth and sustainability from the World Future Society, though I’m not sure it provides any “new news.” Yes, we’re consuming resources at an unsustainable rate, and that rate will only …
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Paper from Sugarcane Waste — Solid Cleantech Business Plan
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc7LQocZJ6U&w=425&h=349] Did you know that paper doesn’t have to come from trees? Here’s a piece about extremely high-quality paper from bagasse (sugarcane waste) as embodied in a cleantech business plan that I think has a great deal of merit.
Wanted: Solid Cleantech Business Plans
I’d like to re-extend an offer I made a year or so ago: If you’re trying to raise capital for a cleantech business from angel investors, venture capitalists, or private equity, and want objective feedback on your business plan (in …
Solid Cleantech Business Plans – Why They’re Somewhat Rare
In the role I play as focal point for hundreds of cleantech business ideas, I act as an arbiter of the plans’ value and soundness. Needless to say, this frequently puts me in an unpleasant position: that of explaining to …
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