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PRIME Coalition: A New Funding Model for Radical Energy Innovation | Secret Formula

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Matthew Nordan's energy, environment, innovation blog. Square Pegs, Round Holes, and Innovation. Melting Glaciers and Motivation →. PRIME Coalition: A New Funding Model for Radical Energy Innovation. June 16, 2015. Tl;dr: PRIME launches today, bringing a new source of funding philanthropic capital to clean energy tech. How will we scale the world for 10 billion. How will we double the size of the consuming class. People who eat meat and drive cars without wrecking the climate or fighting resource wars?

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Closed - Deals we've done - Prime Coalition

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Quidnet Energy, a grid-scale energy storage start-up, raised its first round of seed funding from the Sorenson Impact Foundation, the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation, PRIME Coalition, and individual investors. Click to view overview. About Quidnet and Prime. Oil and Gas 360.

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Secret formula? | Secret Formula

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Matthew Nordan's energy, environment, innovation blog. There’s a secret formula that drives that world: people X stuff/person X resources/unit of stuff. The resources are arbitrary — water, hydrocarbons, phosphorous, neodymium… This ends badly. Increases in resource availability, which are the focus of my career. Most business propositions can be reduced to a few key numbers. Whether you’re making tough decisions as CEO or determining fit as an investor, it helps to work out the secret formula. I'm also ...

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Unsolicited advice | Secret Formula

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Matthew Nordan's energy, environment, innovation blog. Category Archives: Unsolicited advice. Five Lessons Learned From Bringing Cleantech to China. May 28, 2013. Tl;dr: Experienced cleantech CEOs leverage China instead of fearing it enlisting self-interested partners to defend IP and manage risk. This post was co-written with George Miller, an MIT MBA student who conducted this research while interning with me. A … Continue reading →. Entrepreneur Tools: The Returns Analysis. November 30, 2012. And fore...

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Philanthropy | Secret Formula

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Matthew Nordan's energy, environment, innovation blog. PRIME Coalition: A New Funding Model for Radical Energy Innovation. June 16, 2015. Tl;dr: PRIME launches today, bringing a new source of funding philanthropic capital to clean energy tech. How will we scale the world for 10 billion 11 billion people? How will we double the size of the consuming class … Continue reading →. I'm a managing partner at MNL Partners. Finally, I'm co-founder and chairman of the investment committee at PRIME Coalition. 5/7 I...

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Energy efficiency | Secret Formula

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Matthew Nordan's energy, environment, innovation blog. Category Archives: Energy efficiency. Energy, Human Evolution, and Neuroscience. June 10, 2013. There’s a dividing line down the center of energy and environmental community. On one side are Amory Lovins types who say that we should focus exclusively on deploying the technologies we already have, because no breakthroughs are needed to scale … Continue reading →. Installing a Nest, Investing in Nest. October 4, 2012. Nest Installation Photo Log. Where...

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Leprechauns | Secret Formula

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Matthew Nordan's energy, environment, innovation blog. Energy, Human Evolution, and Neuroscience. June 10, 2013. There’s a dividing line down the center of energy and environmental community. On one side are Amory Lovins types who say that we should focus exclusively on deploying the technologies we already have, because no breakthroughs are needed to scale … Continue reading →. Why I Suspend Disbelief. May 30, 2012. I'm a managing partner at MNL Partners. Co-founded and led Lux Research. To be notified ...

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Square Pegs, Round Holes, and Innovation | Secret Formula

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Matthew Nordan's energy, environment, innovation blog. Energy, Human Evolution, and Neuroscience. PRIME Coalition: A New Funding Model for Radical Energy Innovation →. Square Pegs, Round Holes, and Innovation. September 26, 2013. I spoke a couple of weeks ago at the NextWave Greentech Investing. Conference (organized by my friend Rob Day. While I failed in my stretch goal to break something onstage, I hope I articulated the square peg/round hole challenge in this field. Here’s the video:. You are comment...

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Matthew Nordan | Secret Formula

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Matthew Nordan's energy, environment, innovation blog. Author Archives: Matthew Nordan. Melting Glaciers and Motivation. September 20, 2015. Both Team Nordan spent the last couple weeks of summer in three national parks Glacier, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton. Weather and wildfires cooperated to deliver spectacular views and lots of wildlife. I came across the gal … Continue reading →. PRIME Coalition: A New Funding Model for Radical Energy Innovation. June 16, 2015. Square Pegs, Round Holes, and Innovation.