Words and pictures from Silicon Valley by Chris Gulker
Here’s where I’ve been scanning in my archive of 80’s photos when I have the time and energy. It’s a real, honest-to-gosh Silicon Valley garage, seen here with a couple of high-tech scanners amongst the other, usual garage junk. I’m not involved in a startup, or even thinking of one, but maybe I could just rent the garage out to entrepreneurs who need ‘garage cred’ while they’re looking for Angel money…
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An amusing – and correct, IMHO – take on the right wing’s attempt to smear Al Gore while simultaneously elevating GW Bush. For all their efforts, Gore seems to be able to rise above the crud…
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AlwaysOn pulls up this session from their Davis Going Green greentech conference (I was there) last month where a group of prominent VCs outline their bets. This group said they liked energy efficiency, utility scale projects, plastics, building materials, carbon reduction, and transport.
I interviewed IBM Capital co-founder Drew Clark the week after Going Green, and his main interests were green data centers, water quality, energy supplies (including photovoltaics) and the global power grid. Despite its name, IBM Capital doesn’t mainly put money into startups – Clark says there are plenty of places for good startups to find funding. Rather, IBM Capital tries to introduce startups to customers, in deals that work out for IBM, too. IBM sells the startups’ innovative products and services, and customers get a guarantee from Big Blue that the startup will be around to deliver….
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