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Showing posts with label clean energy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clean energy. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Thursday, March 05, 2015
Energy Is The Missing Link
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The political roadmap is clear. The economic roadmap is clear. The policy roadmap is clear. But you can't have India and Africa eat up the blue sky like China did. And neither are going to wait. They will pollute their way out of poverty if they have to. So the scientists of the world really have their work cut out for them. I don't care where they are. America, China, India. Does not matter. Clean energy has to happen.
The thing about clean energy is, not only will it give economic growth without pollution, it will give economic growth itself. In their rush to clean energy that makes economic sense, all countries from America to India to China will add a percentage point or two to their growth rates. So bring it on, scientists.
Monday, February 02, 2015
The Most Powerful Scene In Interstellar
You always thought Matt Damon was Da Bomb (I have watched the Bourne movies more times than I can remember, they are better than all the Bond movies, I used to watch Heat the same way) and Matthew McConaughey was the sidekick, the also star. That changed for me after Interstellar. McConaughey emerged clear. Late blooming is in.
I am really into movies. I love watching them. My favorite celebrity is a movie star, not a politician or a tech entrepreneur. I don't think that means I ought be in the movies (although I do want a small role here and there, get me in as an extra, maybe I will sip coffee in some scene, I don't have time for a full role, and maybe talent is also required, although I did win a best actor award in middle school, just like my favorite movie star). I think that means I think overwhelmingly visually. Words come to me later. First I think through abstract images. And once the thought is formed, I look for words.
My favorite scene in Interstellar is when the McConaughey character falls into what is a black hole, but instead he finds himself on the other side of the cosmic window, right outside where his daughter is. He just does not seem to be able to reach out or communicate.
There is this concept of worm holes. You can travel vast seemingly untravelable distances through worm holes. They are warps in space and time.
For me coming to America has been McConaughey going into deep space. You think you are doing it for people on earth, people you care most about.
For me coming to America has been McConaughey going into deep space. You think you are doing it for people on earth, people you care most about.
For me it is about the dollar a day people. I feel like if I do well enough as a tech entrepreneur - a SuperEntrepreneur - I will be able to reach out to the dollar a day people in some of the most effective ways possible so as to have a positive impact on their situation, to help them spiral up into higher income brackets. That there is a worm hole. And it is at the cutting edges of innovation.
From the entrepreneur angle, years have been lost to trucking (I packed a decade and a half worth of vacations into two plus years), years have been lost to politics (I was born where I was born, what can I do, what can I say, and if I have a gift, which I think I do, it is that both sides of my family were political), years have been lost to American immigration (the revenge would be to effect an IPO for every such lost year), but I will make up for it all. Software is the center of it all, but I have already made some early moves in biotech, nanotech and clean energy.
Saturday, January 31, 2015
SuperEntrepreneur Options
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You start with that boldness of vision. And you cultivate an eye for spotting for the companies of tomorrow. And you build and scale business processes, and fundraising, and you build your network, and you weave together Founder CEOs doing exciting things in their domains, the earlier you grab them the better.
If you are too much in tune with what is most talked about today (mobile?), you might be missing out on the biggest trends of tomorrow. Although I do think mobile has at least until the end of this decade to run strong.
The Founder CEO concept is key. The Founder CEO is the central hub in the SuperEntrepreneur concept. If you don't have the Founder CEO personality, you are too "clingy."
Saturday, August 03, 2013
Nepal Hydro Focused Clean Energy Seed Fund Seeks Angels
@farhad667 @ZelkovaVC @stephanpaternot @gbrockway @scoutu Nepal focused Clean Energy (hydro) seed fund seeks angels https://t.co/xGk3PxuaPz
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) August 3, 2013
@Bill_Gross @peterchane @SunilPaul @ProfessorVC Nepal focused Clean Energy (hydro) seed fund seeks angels https://t.co/xGk3PxuaPz
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) August 3, 2013
@joecaruso2020 @carlbass @waynekimmel @cleanwebvc Nepal focused Clean Energy (hydro) seed fund seeks angels https://t.co/xGk3PxuaPz
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) August 3, 2013
@davidzonabay @mitchlowe @cmirabile @novaspivack @schuttes Nepal focused CleanEnergy (hydro) seed fund seeks angels https://t.co/xGk3PxuaPz
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) August 3, 2013
Please invest. http://t.co/PykXp1Ru89 @JasonH @garyvee @SteveCase @MParekh @NikhilKal @Joi
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) August 4, 2013
Saturday, October 20, 2012
The Next Big Thing In Software: Never Me
I was never trying to do the next big thing in software.
In 1999 when I was a founding member of a dot com that did pretty good - $25 million raised round two - it was trying to create a community online.
A little after when I was pitching VCs on my own, what I had in mind is what the Chromebook is today, only the price point is not right yet. But then I was not thinking touch as a possibility at all.
The nuclear winter happened. A few years later when I moved to NYC it was with the Chromebook concept in mind.
I got pulled into doing full time political work on a volunteer basis, in Nepal and in America. They were both historic opportunities. I did raise 100K as was the first goal, but my political enemies in the city made sure the idea got scuttled. They killed it. And the Great Recession happened.
After that I started thinking in terms of microfinance, for profit high tech microfinance. Advising or rooting for or even joining the teams of others don't count. A few dot coms fall in that category.
Today I am squarely in Clean Energy, one of the next big things like nanotech and biotech. I will also do sales, and I hope to pick up microfinance down the line. When it comes to software, I am a great user, I'd like to believe. But I never was a guy trying to do the next big thing in software.
I came to New York wanting to do hardware. I am glad Google picked up the slack. I want Google to also do globally wireless gigabit broadband. That is the only way it can become a trillion dollar company.
As for me, let me worry about hydroelectric dams in Nepal.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Huge Wind Turbine
"You could fit the entire infield and outfield of Yankee stadium inside the area that this enormous machine sweeps. Twice!"
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