How much is this to make money for your investors, and how much of it is your passion? Is it a combination of both? You could have set this up as a nonprofit. Jesse Fink: Right. Steve Blank: Hopefully, it won’t be one. Jesse Fink: Yes. Like you, Steve, and like everybody here, I...
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Priceline started in the backwoods of Connecticut. It started in Stanford. Jesse Fink: In Stanford, yes. Steve Blank: So here we are. When did it start? Jesse Fink: We started working on it in '96 and we went out in '98. Steve Blank: So there were lots of interesting technology...
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So when I think about clean tech investing, when I think of solid oxide fuel cells or new thin film semiconductors or solar concentrators or something else, I’m getting a feeling that all those words you just used for the last two minutes doesn't mean that. Jesse Fink: Right. Steve Bl...
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The question is early investors in this sector may not have been as returned focus as they were trying to move things along from a mission perspective per se. Has that changed? You’re absolutely right. If you look at just the volume of capital that is going into the market and you look...
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I think we’re at a point now, you can see it in what is being written. You can see it in Bill Gates' speech at Davos last week, that you could see it in the things that Google is doing and the Skoll Foundation and all these wonderful individuals and organizations out here, for the most ...
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Priceline co-founder Jesse Fink explains to entrepreneur Steve Blank how his early company was a technology-enhanced solution to a business model - and not a real technology play - that succeeded in providing for both business and consumer. Fink brings these same solutions to his current investme...
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MissionPoint Capital Partners co-founder Jesse Fink explains what it means to merge clean energy and environmental finance, including cap and trade and other infrastructure supports, that helps bring clean tech initiatives to market faster and at a lower cost.
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Jesse Fink, co-founder of MissionPoint Capital Partners, and serial entrepreneur Steve Blank, pinpoint how green investing is ripe with opportunity and ready to jumpstart the economy. Investors in Silicon Valley and elsewhere are increasingly drawn to the ROI - and not just altruism - and they’r...
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