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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

Many venture capitalists are limiting their investments to the "demand-side" — aimed at reducing energy use — rather than investing in startups trying to change the way we produce energy. The net result is that many VCs now turn down promising companies that might contribute to transforming the way we produce energy.

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Where There’s a Why, There’s a Way

Harvard Business Review

If you don’t have a powerful answer as to why you are disrupting, you can easily get distracted and lose your way. Trish Costello, founder of Portfolia, knows her “why”: assist starts-up in growth and financing. Paraphrasing Proverbs, Where there is no vision, we really do perish. Her “how” has morphed over the past two decades.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

Venture capitalist Mark Andreessen, a target of Icahn’s attacks as a board member at eBay, recently likened the 78-year-old to a six-year-old. In 2010 it was $900 million — seventh place. He didn’t know whether we made nuclear power plants or French fries. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' Wait a while. He didn’t care.”

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle. Stay off of ventures'' balance sheets — and get onto their income statements. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

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Big Companies Can Unleash Innovation, Rather than Shackle It

Harvard Business Review

Here's why: the innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale allows big companies to shift from shackling innovation to unleashing it. It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices.