Creating value: the entrepreneur’s most important task
I recommend you to check Zoli’s latest presentation on value creation:
3 Energy-Saving Schemes that Don’t Work
Many energy-saving schemes and devices promoted on the Internet and on TV do not work. Here are some popular energy-saving practices that cannot help you reduce your electricity bill. › Continue reading
Entrepreneurship Workshop at CEU
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About Convertible Note
This post is for discussion and educational purposes only and is not intended to be as legal advice. Legal advice can only be given by legal professionals. Please get a lawyer before proceeding on Convertible Notes. Also, I’am looking forward to contact you if you have worked with lawyers on Convertible Notes, and you can recommend their services.
So, what is a Convertible Note?
For an early stage company seeking to raise money, there are two main routes. › Continue reading
Porting the Linux kernel to a new ARM board
The Linux kernel supports a lot of different CPU architectures. Each of them is maintained by a different group of contributors. In our case, Russell King leads a group of developers who actively port Linux to ARM-based devices. The ARM developers base their work on the upstream Linux kernel as published by Linus Torvalds and develop ARM-specific patches for it. These source code patches enable new hardware support, fix existing bugs affecting the ARM architecture in the upstream kernel, and do many other things besides. The organization of the source code and the methods to port the Linux kernel to a new board are very architecture dependent. ARM relies on source code only. This post is focused on the ARM architecture only. › Continue reading
SmartSynch: universal router for smart grids
SmartSynch announced Wednesday night that it has a plan for allowing universal communications between appliances, smart grids, and utilities, regardless of which communication protocol is used. › Continue reading
iGo Green Technology Line Could Cut 85% Standby Power Consumption
Yet another “green startup” which aims to automatically powering down outlets when not in use. iGo’s three new products, the Power Smart Tower, Power Smart Wall and Laptop Charger, detect when a plugged-in device isn’t being used and then shut off the power being drawn from the wall—which could equal huge energy savings. › Continue reading
The three smart appliance requirements
For grid-aware appliances to deliver on the promises of the smart grid, electricity rates needs to be overhauled, according to appliance makers.
The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM) on Monday released a white paper (click for PDF) outlining what it called the requirements for smart grid acceptance. The release of the paper was timed for the same week that international climate negotiations are going on in Copenhagen. › Continue reading
Do you need real-time energy data to cut energy bills?
At the Cop15 climate negotiations in Copenhagen on Tuesday, a group of advocacy groups and high-tech companies including Google and Intel urged governments to ensure consumers get real-time information on energy use. Giving consumers regular data on consumption will help them take steps to be more energy-efficient and will be an effective way to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to the coalition. › Continue reading
Faster processing for Green Technology Patents
According to Paula Morris, owner of The Morris Law Firm, the USPTO will expedite the patent process for green technology inventions under a pilot program announced by Obama administration officials Dec. 7. › Continue reading
SmartMeter DL PCB boards arrived
The circuit boards of the second generation of the SmartMeter arrived yesterday. Just in time after 10 workdays. They all appear to be in perfect order, but actually not so cheap for two prototype circuit boards (€245 for two PCBs) . I prefer to have perfectly working boards than a few bucks cheaper, and not being sure if everything is correct. That’s why I ordered them at EuroPrint Eger which is widely known as the highest quality PCB manufacturer in Hungary. They also managed the cutouts for me, and could do a black finish of the soldermask. It looks like pretty cool. Enough talking, time for pictures: › Continue reading
Images: What’s in store for power grid storage
How do utilities do storage now? Lead-acid batteries, the same 19th-century technology that starts your car. A number of technology companies are developing alternatives to lead-acid batteries using different technologies to bring us into the 21th century.
$620 million in smart grid energy-storage projects
The Department of Energy on Tuesday awarded $620 million in smart grid projects, the second major wave of government-led funding to modernize the electricity grid.
Time short to agree on smart-grid standards
The first crack at vital smart-grid technical standards are due next year and some companies are already gumming up the works by pushing their own networking technology, according to the government official shepherding the process.
Pitch yourself, not your idea
Here is an other amazing writing originally published by Chris Dixon on his personal website.
Cleantech Open winner offers stable desired temperatures in homes
EcoFactor has been awarded Cleantech Open’s national award, which includes $100,000 in seed capital.
The awards ceremony for one of the leading environmental start-up competitions took place at the Masonic Center in San Francisco following a day-long conference in which contestants and venture capitalists had a chance to mingle.
How to pick a co-founder
(This extremely useful article was taken from Venture Hacks. Enjoy.)
Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. It’s more important than your product, market, and investors.
Jobs and Woz
The ideal founding team is two individuals, with a history of working together, of similar age and financial standing, with mutual respect. One is good at building products and the other is good at selling them.
Green Plug: Intelligent Power Plug which talks to devices
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when plugging in and powering personal electronics whose chargers are so varied that they typically end up balled up in rat’s nests beneath our desks.
Help, albeit slow, is on the way, according to members of consumer electronics companies, green-tech start-ups, and venture capital firms at the Alliance for Universal Power Supplies conference Friday.
Rozetkus 3D: power socket concept from Art Lebedev Studio
The Art Lebedev’s Rozetkus power strip from a few years ago was great, but now his studio is taking us to a new dimension with the Rozetkus 3D socket. It looks like an unassuming and soothingly blue socket but, push the little button above, and it pops out like a Lemarchand box with openings (and, possibly, eternal damnation) on each face. No word on a possible release, but we’re guessing manufacturers foreign and domestic are flooding Art’s inbox right this very moment. Pictures after the break.
TalkingPlug: Networked ’smart plug’ to control appliance energy usage
What if you could better control home appliance energy use by making your wall socket more clever?
That’s the idea behind TalkingPlug from Toronto-based Zerofootprint, a company which makes software for measuring and monitoring corporate carbon emissions.
TalkingPlug is a plug that fits on top of existing electrical outlets. But it’s equipped with componentry to make it a controllable node on a network, including an RFID chip, microprocessor, and wireless networking. The company plans to introduce the product next week.
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