Posts tagged Cleantech
Venture capitalists say industry will shrink, slowly
Dec 16th
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The chorus declaring that the venture capital industry is shrinking now includes 90 percent of VCs, according to the National Venture Capital Association’s annual survey, Venture View 2010.
That’s, uh, pretty overwhelming. Things are a little more divided when it comes to the size of the contraction, but even then 58 percent of respondents [...]
GreenBeat: Steve Westly spreads the Smart Grid gospel, says innovation should fly fast and loose
Nov 19th
Steve Westly, former California state controller and now founder of the venture firm Westly Group, says he got interested in the Smart Grid and cleantech in order to save the world and make massive amounts of money in the process.
During a talk designed to counter Vinod Khosla’s Smart Grid skepticism in the session previous at [...]
GreenBeat 09: Khosla warns against Smart Grid hype, pushes storage
Nov 19th
“I’m not skeptical that the Smart Grid should exist,” famed Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla said, kicking off his conversation with VentureBeat editor Matt Marshall at VentureBeat’s GreenBeat 09 event today. “I wouldn’t be here if I was.” Khosla has been unofficially dubbed a Smart Grid skeptic because his venture firm, Khosla Ventures, has yet [...]
GreenBeat: Khosla warns against Smart Grid hype, pushes storage
Nov 19th
“I’m not skeptical that the Smart Grid should exist,” famed Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla said, kicking off his conversation with VentureBeat editor Matt Marshall at GreenBeat 2009. “I wouldn’t be here if I was.” Khosla has been unofficially dubbed a Smart Grid skeptic because his venture firm Khosla Ventures has yet to make a [...]
GreenBeat 2009: Hot opportunities for startups, investors
Nov 16th
GreenBeat 2009 may be the first conference we’ve hosted in the environmental space, but it wouldn’t be a VentureBeat event without emphasis on investors and innovators. Our Innovation Competition will spotlight some of the most promising technologies and business models in the Smart Grid business, hopefully attracting the right backers.
On Thursday, Nov. 19, our “Follow [...]
