Sebastian Titz, from the corporate VC arm of 3M, talks to MIT Entrepreneurship Review about new investment opportunities renewable energy and makes the bold claim that renewable energy, aside from wind and solar, will not happen...
Written by chmiller
on May 10, 2012.
Published under Perspective.
Move over Alvin and friends, there’s a new popular chipmunk to reckon with: the mascot of a flight search startup called Hipmunk, co-founded by fresh-faced MIT graduate Adam Goldstein (Class of 2010, Course 6 – Electrical...
Written by myhrvold
on April 21, 2012.
Published under Spotlight.
Save for the era of Thomas Edison, it has never been a better time to be a cleantech entrepreneur. A new generation of forward-thinking entrepreneurs is making leaps and bounds as global regions update their energy infrastructure...
Written by slontoh
on April 16, 2012.
Published under Analysis.
One billion dollars. 100% leveraging in one week. 280X for Andreesen-Horowitz, the venture capital firm which invested $250,000 in Instagram in 2010. So many records have been broken by the Facebook acquisition of Instagram and...
Written by stav.davis
on April 12, 2012.
Published under Perspective.
The recent advent of shale gas has disrupted the U.S. energy market, causing entrepreneurs to jump on what many consider a once-in-a-generation opportunity. Money has begun chasing natural gas deals including professional...
Written by chmiller
on April 6, 2012.
Published under Spotlight.
Economic expansion works like this: One trigger innovation spawns a number of supporting industries. The automobile, for example, brought us service stations, fast food chains, asphalt and suburban homes. Steel is another great...
Written by jonsteiman
on April 1, 2012.
Published under Perspective.
This is part IV of a series of articles on innovation in Pharma based on an interview with Jose Carlos Gutierrez Ramos, the man in charge of revolutionizing drug discovery at Pfizer. In part I we establish the difficulties...
Written by matafink
on April 1, 2012.
Published under Analysis.
