Venture Capital & Finance
The Future of Green Building
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Did you know that buildings account for almost 40 percent of total energy use in the U.S.; almost 40 percent of carbon dioxide emissions; and 12 percent of total [...]
2012 Energy Policy After Solyndra – Axelrod Interview
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues The implosion of Solyndra last year was a blow to the Obama administration’s clean energy technology program, but as the 2012 State of the Union underlined, it hasn’t dampened the president’s enthusiasm for [...]
Intel Global Challenge: NextDrop Wins Social Innovation Award
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Innovation and Silicon Valley go together like bits and bites. Another month another innovation competition. But Intel’s Global Challenge caught our attention for the breadth and quality of its innovators from [...]
Khosla’s Andrew Chung: The Post Solyndra Era
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues On the day after Steven Chu defends his department’s handling of the DoE loan guarantee to Solyndra, we look at the impact of Solyndra on the venture capital industry. In [...]
How to Build Better Batteries for Electric Cars – Lesson Plan
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Today, we’re presenting the third in our new Lesson Plan Series based on Fresh Dialogues interviews. The series is compiled by Lisa Lubliner, our new Fresh Dialogues Education Expert. Fresh [...]
Batteries 101 – A Venture Capitalist View
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues In this week’s Fresh Dialogues, Mark Platshon, an expert in battery technology with venture capitalists, Vantage Point , provides some Battery Basics. What is a battery? “Throw a dart at [...]
A Clean Energy Future: Advice from Silicon Valley
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Last night, President Obama addressed the nation for the first time from the Oval office. His subject: the BP oil spill disaster. Although some say he was “vapid”, Obama seized [...]
Vinod Khosla: Cleantech Wisdom
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Vinod Khosla recently announced a new member of his Khosla Ventures team: none other than former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, who has been a vocal proponent of action [...]
Guy Kawasaki: The State of Venture Capital
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues This week, we feature an interview from the archives with Guy Kawasaki, Apple evangelist and venture capitalist at Garage Technology Ventures He shares his candid thoughts on why he thinks the [...]
How Can Obama Jumpstart Clean Tech? Silicon Valley Experts Respond
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues The Obama administration ought to have sent an envoy to the FountainBlue State of Clean Green Conference on January 29, 2010. A panel of Silicon Valley clean tech [...]
Laurie Yoler: On Tesla, Venture Capital and Obama
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Laurie Yoler, a managing director of Growth Point Technology Partners, was a founding board member of Tesla Motors and currently serves on its advisory board. I met with [...]
Guy Kawasaki: Venture Capital Insights
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues This week, we feature an interview with Apple evangelist and venture capitalist at Garage Technology Ventures, Guy Kawasaki. He shares his candid thoughts on the venture capital industry; [...]
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