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A Venture Capitalist View of the Top 5 Entrepreneurial Energy Opportunities
Tweet Share on Facebook August 18, 2009 Comment (2)Accel Partners is one of Silicon Valley's premier venture capital firms. Over the 25 years that it has been in business, Accel has funded way too many successful start-up companies to list here.
Accel is aggressively investing in energy-related start-ups and recently released Entrepreneurial Energy, a white paper covering its analysis of this market. The conclusion: Changes in the energy industry are creating a wide range of opportunities for small, entrepreneurial companies.
I caught up with Accel VCs Rich Wong and Craig Lawrence to discuss the energy sector and the white paper. They see five key energy areas as having the best small-business opportunities in the coming years:
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Will the Recovery Be Jobless?
Tweet Share on Facebook August 5, 2009 Comment (4)The U.S. economy shrank only 1 percent in the second quarter, which is better than most economists expected. This has led to a number of economists bucking the consensus view that the recovery will be slow and feeble. Instead, they are predicting a V-shaped recovery with robust economic growth starting this fall.
But even if the optimists are right and the recovery is strong, we expect that traditional job growth will be weak.
In this highly uncertain, competitive, and volatile economy, companies are hesitant to add full-time staff. Instead they are looking to contractors, outsourcing arrangements, and business partners to provide flexible workforces that quickly and easily scale up and down in response to business change.
