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altenergystocks.com - 18 days ago
Cleantech Venture Capitalists are Human Too
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David Gold Sectors like solar, biofuels and smart grid have received a significant overweighting of venture capital investment compared to other sectors. Is this because they are better investment opportunities or because venture capitalists (VCs), being human, invest in what they know and ...

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Greentech Media: Cleantech Investing — ... David Gold wrote recently on some of the same issues, wondering why solar and the like have gotten so much attention from VCs while technologies like geothermal have gotten much less attention.  His answer is that it's in large part "much of the bias has to do with the fact that not many VCs have strong networks of geologists, drilling technologists, heat pump engineers and steam turbine power generation experts to build great geothermal companies".  I'm directionally in alignment with David's take -- obviously I agree that VCs need to broaden their horizons into other ...

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