As a venture capitalist active in emerging technologies, I meet with countless entrepreneurs looking for seed capital. Many of the start-up founders I meet are scientists with PhD’s. These individuals are brilliant – indeed they are passionate about their ideas, inventions and products – but too often they lack the business and marketing acumen they need to turn ideas into successful companies.

Solar energy, despite all of the effort to increase its usage, still only accounts for less than one percent of the energy we consume. The amount of solar energy that reaches the Earth’s surface every hour is greater than mankind’s total demand for energy in a whole year. The total energy stored in the world’s supply of fossil fuels is equal to just twenty days of solar energy. By any measure, the sun is a powerful and virtually limitless source of energy and it is imperative that we capitalize on this clean energy source by increasing our use of solar energy and reducing our reliance on fossil fuels.

Social media is really about two things; raising awareness of your company and tapping into relevant online conversations that affect your company and its technology. Today, when such a large percent of your audience is using social media to research just about everything, drawing online attention to your company and learning about your audience’s needs through these networks, is clearly one of the keys success.

It would be hard to miss the impacts of urbanization, invasive species, environmental shortcomings, and resource scarcity on the cost of agriculture. One proposal is to use “vertical farming” where high rise buildings in urban settings are used to grow local produce using hydroponics.

I am pleased to share a blog posting in the New York Times featured Airdye, a technology developed by 21Ventures portfolio company Colorep for creating eco clothing, by dyeing fabric without the use of water [...]

Many articles have been written claiming that Israel can become a leader in clean technology over the next ten years. Maybe, maybe not.
In order to make this prediction with any degree of accuracy, we need to define ‘clean’ technology [...]

I give a course called From-Idea-to-IPO at the New York Academy of Sciences which teaches scientists how to commercialize their technology. This 13 week course is specifically designed for graduate students, postdocs and science entrepreneurs who want to build businesses that commercialize university-owned intellectual property or have a deeper understanding of the issues involved in [...]