9 posts and columns on cleantech

Forget Cleantech — It’s Cleanweb at SXSW

in News on March 12 at 7:00 am PT

Can smartphones help save the planet?
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What Bad Economy? Three Big Silicon Valley VCs Poised to Haul in $2B in New Fund Raising.

in News on September 8, 2011 at 6:15 am PT

Despite the bad economy, turbulent markets and lackluster venture returns of late, limited partners looking for an investment edge seem to still be adding more dough to the VC kitty.
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General Catalyst Heads West, to Find Some Young Men and Women to Fund

in Social on November 24, 2010 at 12:01 am PT

Go West, East Coast VC? In fact, the 10-year-old venture capital firm General Catalyst Partners is moving out two of its partners from Cambridge, Mass., to Palo Alto, Calif.–just in time to avoid the Boston winter.

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Vinod Khosla on Why Clean Technology Is Misunderstood

in News on July 31, 2009 at 7:05 am PT

Vinod Khosla emphasized several times Thursday that costs–and not idealogy–will drive the clean technology industry, and said that much of the hype around cleantech is fueled by misunderstood information.

Tesla Foiled

in News on October 17, 2008 at 4:42 am PT

While $25 billion in low-cost federal loans keeps General Motors, Ford and Chrysler churning out SUVs through the econalypse, the wheels are coming off cleantech car company Tesla Motors. Without access to the same sorts of loans given its Detroit colleagues, the country’s leading electric car maker is delaying production of its Model S sedan, sacking an unspecified number of employees and shuttering two offices.