http://gigaom.com/2009/04/28/google-kleiner-perkins-get-behind-feds-latest-energy-gambit/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:42:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2009/04/28/google-kleiner-perkins-get-behind-feds-latest-energy-gambit/#comment-22423 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:45:23 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=29918#comment-22423 [...] testified before the Senate Committee on Natural Resources about Google’s support of CEDA back in April, and Reicher suggested then that CEDA be allowed to take equity positions in funded companies, and [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/04/28/google-kleiner-perkins-get-behind-feds-latest-energy-gambit/#comment-22422 Fri, 22 May 2009 14:20:08 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=29918#comment-22422 [...] Natural Resources Committee hearing on proposed changes to the guarantee program, suggesting (as we wrote last month) that startups be allowed to volunteer for a “quadruple-Z” credit rating, avoiding the credit [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2009/04/28/google-kleiner-perkins-get-behind-feds-latest-energy-gambit/#comment-22421 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:47:39 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=29918#comment-22421 Plenty of technologies have bridged the funding gap. They’ve simply chosen to do it more deliberately, by building pilot projects and gathering sufficient operational data to provide comfort to financiers. I can’t sympathize much with VCs that are looking to the government to accelerate their all-or-nothing, swing for the fences CSP business plans by subsidizing project finance risk. This gap only exists due to their impatience and relatively short time horizons for investment.

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