What’s the #1 cause of a new business failure? The inability to get customers to buy their product! On September 13th a lively crowd heard from two fascinating experts on how to market and sell your product. Key insight: 90% of new companies do a terrible...
Two recent reports (from CleanEdge and Next 10) show the Sacramento region in the top echelon of clean tech regions in the country. While the regional ranking has fallen over time, most of this is because the ratings are based more and more on third-party sources for...
If you didn’t have a chance to join us at Hot Italian for our Summer PowerUp event on the 24th, you missed a great one! Hot Italian makes wonderful pizza and they just kept them coming….along with pitchers of beer. Thanks so much to Doug Bosley of BTNT...
by Aaron Heinrich Having worked with companies of all sizes over a 20-plus year career, I can honestly say I’ve seen a thing or two. While this hasn’t included the examples shown in the various Farmer’s Insurance commercials, like dogs that slip cars into gear,...
Athena Intelligence is a Sacramento startup creating AI software to identify the actual cost of resource usage on agricultural land. The idea formed nearly a decade ago when founder David Sypnieski started selling to farmers and realized data driven decisions didn’t...
John Lee, a VP with Silicon Valley Bank who focuses on lending to early stage companies, gave a nice talk on Tuesday to a group of about 50 at UCD’s Venture Catalyst. SVB is one of the more creative banks in lending to startups, so getting Lee’s...
“Nothing good happens till someone writes a check” Check out Mark Haney’s interview of CleanStart Chairperson Gary Simon from July 22nd. Listen to them discuss CleanStart, when clean tech companies should go after funding, how to listen to customers...
There’s a new source of opportunities for regional clean tech companies if they have something to offer on EVs. VW has agreed to a nearly $2 Billion settlement for cheating on its emissions testing, and $44 million of that looks like it will be coming to...
The number one need for a startup is almost always money. Now there is a new path to raising capital to launch a tech business. CleanStart is helping entrepreneurs get into the crowdfunding business! It requires some new skills and new techniques, most of which are...
carbonBLU is a cleantech software company, working to accelerate the adoption of alternative fuels and advanced vehicles. Based in Roseville, they started operations in 2014 with the mission to establish clear positive correlations between sustainable environmental...
