“Us” is the blue-collar, democratic working average low and middle class American.
“Them” is the wealthy 1%.
They can’t help that they know nothing about common men. They went to the best schools. They have the best real estate. They eat the best food. They are wealthy, and that makes them “the enemy” in the working person’s [...]
Dear White Hat Witch,
The keynote speaker at the CalCEF Angel Network meeting in San Francisco on March 10 was, Joe Desmond, and he said that he has worked in both the public and private sectors of the energy industry over the course of 25 years.
I was wondering if people in the corporate social responsibility realm [...]
This speech was transcribed at the CalCEF Angel Network Meeting March 10, 2009
Joe Desmond came into public service as a result of the 2001 energy crisis that ushered in Gov. Schwarzzeneger into office. Since the energy system is highly complex, dynamic and constantly evolving over time, the points of leverage were always changing over time. [...]
This speech was transcribed at the CalCEF Angel Network Meeting March 10, 2009
Laurie Yoler, Managing Director for GrowthPoint Technology Partners, provided an overview of her firm’s recent analysis of the investment trends in energy efficiency and the state of the mergers & acquisitions market. See EthicalMarkets.com for an aggregation of news media covering the Energy [...]
The application deadline for the 2009 Doing it Right NYC Program is March 31, 2009. Please take the time to view the full NYC Program Schedule & Details. As many of you know, this is a year of change. As recently reported in the Economist, “The world’s greatest producer of entrepreneurs continues to be America”. [...]
Emerging Markets offer promise and challenge to the pharmaceutical industry: Investor Report
Date: March 6, 2009
New approaches to customer needs, product affordability and effective distribution will be the lynchpin to global pharma’s success in emerging markets, according to the Pharma Futures report, published today. Read more…
Meanwhile, Innovest’s Weekly Stock Monitor reported that the pharma industry has [...]
In September the Apollo Alliance and its national coalition of labor, environmental, business, and community leaders released The New Apollo Program, a comprehensive clean energy, job-generating strategy to restore America’s economic strength.
http://apolloalliance.org/programs/full-proposal/
Investors Use Social Networks to Make Early Stage Investment Decisions
Angels deepen their visibility with little effort. Beware the disgruntled Founder sporting a Blog.
Before investors consider investing in a company, a simple Google search can yield surprising information that can make or break a deal.
Finding a disgruntled former company founder’s blog that publicizes his technology, patents [...]
http://www.cleantechopen.com
Last year, two of my friends in Miami decided to convert their backyard into a garden because they knew how bad “the depression” was about to become. One of them is a computer programmer, who often knows about everything long before it hits mainstream, so it wasn’t weird when he started ordering seeds by the [...]
