All Blog Posts Tagged 'capital' (9)

In response to green energy bonds, just what the country needs is more debt. Isn’t $12,000,000,000,000 enough to already devalue our currency? How much do you want to devalue it? If people are really interested in truly going green, we need to funnel our own resources into a Green Energy Fund. Mr. Pickens could be on the 13 member Board and we could elect the remaining 12 members. Set up a website that could provide a voting system to allow people to promote themselves and allow everyone concern… Continue

I was watching the major media news today while Congress was interrogating the CEO's of the Big Three automakers on why they took private planes to the hearing. Answer; because they can. End of story. It never ceases to amaze me how such trivial news dominates the conversation around major issues while the underlying truths, even those which might fundamentally alter the public perception of the issue, go largely unreported. While I was watching the news I thought about all of the other auto ma… Continue

A guy I never met came up with an idea. That idea sparked some insights that I want to share with you. Monte, an artist and patriot, wrote of elephants, barn raisings and many visually striking analogies that one generally associated with the higher and strategic thinking process. I hope to appeal to the more mundane thinking that is common in your doing process. As I visualize Monte's Elephant I see that it is an investment club with a non-profit status [501(3) c] whose charter allows Pickin… Continue

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 13, 2008 Contact: Jim Pierobon (301) 944-1200 x1029 direct (301) 520-1758 mobile JimPierobon@StandardSolar.com STANDARD SOLAR, INC. COMPLETES SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM C-SUITE EXECUTIVES BRING WELL-HONED SKILLS FROM LEADING COMPANIES AND SERVICE PROVIDERS GAITHERSBURG, MD, Oct. 13 – Standard Solar, Inc., the Mid-Atlantic region’s premier turnkey provider of solar energy systems, has completed its senior management team and is po… Continue

How not to die - article by Yahoo Stores and Ycombinator inventor Paul Graham How not to die is a very thought provoking piece in title and concept. Written by Paul Graham, an expert on micro-finance and micro-entrepreneurship, it sounds a clarion call for economic survival in the hardscrabble world of Internet… Continue

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 9, 2008 Contact: Jim Pierobon (301) 944-1200 x1029 direct (301) 520-1758 mobile JimPierobon@StandardSolar.com STANDARD SOLAR RAISES $8.5 MILLION TO FUND EXPANSION; MEET GROWING DEMAND FOR RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS CAPITAL INFUSION COMES DESPITE TURMOIL IN FINANCIAL MARKETS GAITHERSBURG, MD – Standard Solar, Inc., the Mid-Atlantic region’s premier, turnkey provider of solar energy systems, has raised $8.5… Continue

Clean-Tech Venture Capitalist Speaks to the Democrats Venture capital got a prime-time spot at the Democratic National Convention when Nancy Floyd, founder and managing director of Nth Power, a San Francisco clean-tech venture capital firm, addressed the crowd Tuesday. She argued that Barack Obama’s energy policy would help energy entrepreneurs and the nation’s economy. Ms. Floyd lobbied on behalf of start-up companies with technologies that address the energy crunch. “There are… Continue

# Invest in Climate-Friendly Energy Development and Deployment: Barack Obama knows that we need to rely on technology to help solve the critical energy and environmental problems facing this country. As he announced in his energy policy, Barack Obama will invest $150 billion over the next ten years to enable American engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote deve… Continue

Cleantech Venture Investment Reaches Record of $2 Billion in 2Q08 Solar and Second-Generation Biofuels Lead SAN FRANCISCO--(07-08-2008)--The Cleantech Group™, founders of the cleantech investment category and providers of leading global market research and investment services to its members, today announced 2Q08 results for cleantech venture investments in North America, Europe, China and India, totaling $2.0 billion across 96 companies, an all-time record quarter. The previous record quarter… Continue