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Venture Capital Investor National Grid Partners Speaks About Cleantech Investing

February 25, 2023 admin clean power, green economy, INTERVIEWS, investment, utilities, venture capital

Credit to Author: Jake Richardson| Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 13:35:14 +0000

Silicon Valley has been the main high tech and venture capital hub in the US for decades. The Valley is typically viewed as San Jose, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Menlo Park, and Palo Alto. Typically, venture capital firms have invested in software, Internet and computer hardware startups: Google, Sun MicroSystems, Facebook, Twitter, Cisco, […]

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Decarbonizing Industrial Heat Faces Cognitive, Capex, Opex, & Disruptive Technology Challenges

November 11, 2022 admin carbon emissions, clean power, clean tech, climate change, Coal, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, Europe, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, investment, Manufacturing, natural gas, Oil, renewable energy, thermal energy storage, venture capital

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:00:30 +0000

There is insufficient attention paid to industrial heat decarbonization due to discontinuous technologies, contextual problems, and current economics.

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Interview With Cleantech Investor Zack Bogue Of DCVC

March 24, 2022 admin green economy, INTERVIEWS, investment, methane, venture capital

Credit to Author: Benjamin Schulz| Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 15:54:07 +0000

Benjamin Schulz: Zack, you’ve been investing in cleantech a long time, and if you look back, what change have you seen between then and now? Zack Bogue: I became interested in the space around 2007 — that was during the first cleantech wave when a number of cleantech companies weren’t working out because they were […]

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How a Web Design Company Crowdfunded Millions and Completely Disappeared

February 25, 2020 admin Artificial Intelligence, crowdfunding, Silicon Valley, the grid, venture capital

Credit to Author: Edward Ongweso Jr| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:12:17 +0000

The Grid suddenly locked customers out of their websites and went silent for a year. Now, the CEO says he was naive. “I can imagine there’s a few people who are pissed off.”

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California Introduces Law to Stop Delivery Apps Screwing Over Restaurants

February 12, 2020 admin delivery app, doordash, gig economy, gig work, grubhub, uber eats, venture capital

Credit to Author: Edward Ongweso Jr| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:30:17 +0000

The assembly bill is the latest silo in California’s war against Silicon Valley’s exploitative practices.

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SoftBank’s New Strategy: Screw Over Startups Not Investors

January 13, 2020 admin doordash, katerra, Lyft, oyo, Silicon Valley, softbank, Uber, venture capital, vision fund, wework

Credit to Author: Edward Ongweso Jr| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:26:21 +0000

Layoffs, investment exits, and sudden deal back-outs. SoftBank’s strategy of weaponizing capital is failing.

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Casper’s Business Model: Burn All the Money Hidden Under the Mattress

January 11, 2020 admin casper, ipo, profit, startup, Unicorn, unprofitable business model, vc bubble, vc grifters, venture capital

Credit to Author: Edward Ongweso Jr| Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 15:47:05 +0000

Casper is the latest unprofitable startup to go public.

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SoftBank’s Vision Fund Is a Graveyard of Broken Tech Startups

November 5, 2019 admin doordash, fair, katerra, oyo, softbank, Uber, venture capital, vision fund, wework

Credit to Author: Edward Ongweso Jr| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 13:29:10 +0000

Uber and WeWork are the most well-known disasters. Meet some others.

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WeWork Just Halved its Valuation and Might Cut it Again

September 9, 2019 admin ipo, softbank, venture capital, wework

Credit to Author: Edward Ongweso Jr| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:19:06 +0000

WeWork is losing $5,197 per customer per year, indicating that it might not really have a business model.

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Meet Silicon Valley’s UFO Hunters

June 28, 2019 admin ALIENS, Silicon Valley, UFO, UFOS, venture capital

Credit to Author: MJ Banias| Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:42:35 +0000

A small group of venture capitalists and technologists believe that humans can capture and reverse-engineer UFOs—and that trying to do so might be a good investment.