Engineering Algae-based Bio Fuel: Valcent CEO Glen Kertz (Part 3)

SM: How did you finance your initial ad campaign to allow you to obtain $2 million in sales? GK: I have some friends in the venture capital world. I showed them what I had and where I wanted to go, and they decided they wanted to join.

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Forbes Column 08: Healing Health Care

Zero-In this week takes a look at one of the most daunting issues of our time, health care, and calls for a bubble for that industry, so that capital, entrepreneurs and jobs flow into it over the next decade. Read Healing Health Care on Forbes. The biggest issue plaguing this industry is its broken business

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Engineering Algae-based Bio Fuel: Valcent CEO Glen Kertz (Part 2)

SM: What was your next step after Agristar? GK: I started my own consulting company and pursued other interests such as painting. I essentially took a break from the business world for two years, which let me think about what I wanted to do next. During that period I started developing innovative technology, some of

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Deal Radar 2008: SunRun

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Engineering Algae-based Bio Fuel: Valcent CEO Glen Kertz (Part 1)

Glen Kertz is a serial entrepreneur and an inventor who holds over 20 US and foreign patents in various fields. He started his first company at the age of 12 and has continued to create new business ventures based on scientific innovation. He has an extensive background in the development of a wide range of

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Innovating Web 2.0 Storage: Fabrik CEO Mike Cordano (Part 7)

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Deal Radar 2008: Archer Technologies

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Innovating Web 2.0 Storage: Fabrik CEO Mike Cordano (Part 6)

SM: At what point did you launch the external drive business? You are now building two parallel businesses that will converge at some point. What is that evolution? MC: We spent a lot of 2006 looking for potential alternatives. We had the option to build it organically, but that is a capital intensive activity. Our

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