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Investments

Dec. 14, 2011

Clean-tech investment: What every entrepreneur should know

There are deeper challenges, besides the economic slow-down, facing clean-tech investors. By James C. Chapman of Foley & Lardner LLP


By James C. Chapman


During the period of 2002 through 2006, venture investment in clean tech increased at a steady pace. From 2006 through the second quarter of 2008, venture investment in clean tech grew at a rapid pace. Clean tech was the next "big thing" venture investors had been seeking since the dot.com bubble burst.


Then reality struck, and notwithstanding large government intervention in the sector, many venture investors soured on cl...

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