All Blog Posts Tagged 'venture' (8)

The Greater Good Program Launches November 12th Featuring Key Colorado Sustainability Leadership

The Progress Group, a Denver based consulting firm, announces the launch of The Greater Good Program, a comprehensive business development initiative designed to bring triple-bottom-line thinking to entrepreneurial businesses from under-served communities throughout the Front Range. To celebrate the launch, leaders and entrepreneurs from the community will gather for a half-day kick-off event on November 12, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Mi Casa Resource Center at 360 Acoma Street, Den… Continue

Added by Ron Zwerin on November 4, 2009 at 9:10am — No Comments

Enough fantasy and Utipian visions of the future. I need 6 people to roll up sleeves and get to work!

Financial - CFO - must know the secret language of money folks and translate. Salesman - VP of Sales & Marketing - must deliver signed contracts for products. Operations - COO - must coordinate and expedite complex projects on tight deadlines. Architect - Compliance Officer - fluent and authoritative with building and safety codes. Manufacturing Engineer - VP Eng. - build a factory while the machines are producing. Software Engineer - VP IT - Security, Embedded, Real-Time, Algorithms, the wo… Continue

Added by Paul on July 28, 2009 at 6:58am — 1 Comment

It time to get er done ourselves.

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

Added by HARRY "SKIP" ROBINSON on January 29, 2009 at 7:16pm — No Comments

Insights - Following the Money

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

Added by ML Hayes on October 20, 2008 at 2:22pm — 7 Comments

"How not to die" - article by Yahoo Stores and Ycombinator inventor Paul Graham

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

Added by Rick on October 9, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Clean-Tech Venture Capitalist Speaks to the DNC

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

Added by Bruce Eric Montgomery on August 27, 2008 at 12:32pm — No Comments

Barack Obama will invest $150 billion over the next ten year to advance next generation Energy Solutions

# 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

Added by Bruce Eric Montgomery on July 26, 2008 at 7:34am — 2 Comments

Cleantech Venture Investment Reaches Record of $2 Billion in 2Q08

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

Added by Bruce Eric Montgomery on July 24, 2008 at 8:14am — No Comments