Serial Entrepreneur: HP Michelet (Part 3)

In this next segment of the interview, HP takes us through his view of the future market demand for fresh water with a particular emphasis on areas which ERI can address. We discover in dismay, that the water supply of California is likely to dry up in the next 40 years due to global warming.

Serial Entrepreneur: HP Michelet (Part 2)

To understand the impact of ERI, I spent some time asking HP about the technical details and their business / market trend impact. As we proceed in the interview, I think it is important to point out how HP has made excellent use of timing with ERI. The stars all seem to have aligned finally,

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Serial Entrepreneur: HP Michelet (Part 1)

Next in our serial entrepreneur series is a fascinating interview with Norwegian entrepreneur, HP Michelet, who is Executive Chairman of Energy Recovery Inc, known more commonly as ERI. As you would expect, HP is a serial entrepreneur, involved with 8 different businesses from software to cleantech to – hold your breath – a cod farm,

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Davos: Clean Water Fight

“This year, for example, several groups in Davos are pushing initiatives designed to improve the delivery of clean water to the developing world. Meanwhile in Nairobi, water NGOs are pushing their own initiatives to the same end at the “other” event. Both sides cite the same shocking figures – that more than one billion people

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Marketing Midwest Succotash

By Frank Levinson For the high tech readers of this web blog it is probably important to start out with a definition for the word succotash because it probably is not familiar to most of you. Succotash is a dish (food) made from beans and corn. Can be lima beans and corn, but can be

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Proposition 87

I just received an email from Vinod Khosla, trying to explain Proposition 87. If you are about to vote in California, and care about cleantech, the looming energy crisis, etc. it would be a good idea to read this.

Investment Thesis: Warren Weiss (Part 2 – Final)

SM:What are your key investments and the rationale behind making those investments. This will help entrepreneurs understand how you process deals. WW: Energy markets present great opportunity for using IT to lower costs and improve operations. In the 90s there were companies — such as CellNet — that spotted this trend ahead of its time.

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What Cleantech Is and Why It Matters

By Dominique Trempont, Guest Author Having spent 14 years of my professional life at Raychem Corporation, the world leader in material science and technologies, I was exposed to cleantech businesses before they were named that way. I am very interested in this field because it addresses the quality of our air, water, the sustainable availability

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