Tom's Tech Tweets » Cleantech http://tomschulz.name Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Impact Investing in Cleantech and Internet/Software Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:18:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A Call for Urgency and Action: Cleantech Venture Capital in Silicon Valley and Germany http://tomschulz.name/2010/a-call-for-urgency-and-action-cleantech-venture-capital-in-silicon-valley-and-germany/ http://tomschulz.name/2010/a-call-for-urgency-and-action-cleantech-venture-capital-in-silicon-valley-and-germany/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:04:29 +0000 Tom Schulz http://tomschulz.name/?p=79 In the upcoming edition of CSR International you can find my article “A Call for Urgency and Action: Cleantech Venture Capital in Silicon Valley and Germany”. Fritz Lietsch asked me to write about my impressions coming to Germany from Silicon Valley. In short, Germany is a great location for cleantech, but the VC scene is horribly underdeveloped. Silicon Valley started very late in the game, but with a sense of urgency (see my posts about the Singularity and The Skoll Urgent Threat Fund) and a lot of passion (see Clean Tech Open), California claims a lot more mind share than the good gold German engineering firms. Download the article here..

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