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Profile: carbonBLU
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...
Chris Russell Supports Entrepreneurs in Crowdfunding Workshop
Chris Russell brought his experience to help entrepreneurs understand rules around Equity Crowdfunding. Attendees learned and got to ask questions about Reg A+. Listen to his entire presentation courtesy of StartUp Sac.
Brookings – “Cleantech venture capital: Continued declines and narrow geography limit prospects”
The Brookings Institution has published a review of VC investment into clean tech with some interesting conclusions. As we have said before, venture capital may not be a very good source of start up money in the clean tech sector. This report shows in detail how...
Don’t Discount Equity Crowdfunding
by Thomas Hall If you have been in any startup community long enough, you have talked to the entrenched stakeholders, venture capitalist, law firms, accelerators, incubators, and the like. All seem to have similar tools to bring a business to success. However, there...
Company Profile AQUAOSO
AQUAOSO Technologies, a startup public benefit corporation headquartered in Sacramento, California, is launching a beta version of their online water trading program this summer. The AQUAOSO team is dedicated to improving the water industry, and is led by CEO and...
What are reasonable expectations of crowdfunding?
There are lots of kinds of crowdfunding--starting with asking for donations to selling stock in your company. Clearly asking for donations is going to result in a lot less money than offering a discount for pre-ordering a product or selling shares of stock. There are...
CleanStart PowerUp! Progress Report Release!
CleanStart Progress Report Launch Party was a Success! Last week’s CleanStart Progress Report Launch was a success. Companies from all over the area attend. John Bissell talked about Micromidas becoming Origin Materials. We learned more about the sustainable...
Want to Fund Great Idea for New Tech Hardware?: Look Elsewhere than VCs
by Gary Simon -- It is tough to find capital to build a business around a new piece of hardware. VC's have lost interest. Why? Here are some conclusions from some recent studies: Products that involve new engineering and new hardware invariably take longer and...
That First Earth-Day
by Gary Simon -- April 22, 1970. A very important day in my life for sure. I was on the Quad at Indiana University in my final semester, heading to medical school. Understand that it was usually a place to avoid. Protests against the Vietnam War were nearly...