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Three NEW topics on climate tech finance, decision tools, and mindful leadership:Finance — Plan for your exit at the beginning (not the end)Tools — Jobs To Be Done framework (from the Father of Disruptive Innovation)Leadership — The monkey lesson (from Google's Moonshot Factory)------------Join EFI's CEO group — The private room for climate CEOs making nine-figure decisions Become an EFI Climate CEO Fellow: a confidential peer community for VC- and private equity-backed CEOs in climate tech and sustainability. Capped at 50 CEOs and 50 investor mentors, representing $40B in market value or investment assets.

Hard Choices: One decision. Why it matters. So what?Do you want to work on your idea? Or the best idea in the room?Founders are paid to have conviction. The risk is confusing conviction with correctness.------------Join EFI's CEO group — The private room for climate CEOs making nine-figure decisions Become an EFI Climate CEO Fellow: a confidential peer community for VC- and private equity-backed CEOs in climate tech and sustainability. Capped at 50 CEOs and 50 investor mentors, representing $40B in market value or investment assets.

Three NEW topics on climate tech finance, decision tools, and mindful leadership:Finance — Gross Margin: Quality > PercentTools — Quiz: The 5 Types of WealthLeadership — Motivation: Identity > Consequences------------Join EFI's CEO group — The private room for climate CEOs making nine-figure decisions Become an EFI Climate CEO Fellow: a confidential peer community for VC- and private equity-backed CEOs in climate tech and sustainability. Capped at 50 CEOs and 50 investor mentors, representing $40B in market value or investment assets.

MIT PhD tech to mine lithium in low-concentration domestic reserves without chemical reagents or excess water use

Three NEW topics on climate tech finance, decision tools, and mindful leadership:Finance — Uncapped upside and capped downside.Tools — The Lean Canvas: Your business plan is wrong. Leadership — Stories do what strategy can't.------------Join the top climate CEO peer group in North America.Become an EFI Climate CEO Fellow — a confidential peer community for Series A to private equity-backed CEOs in climate tech and sustainability. Capped at 100 CEOs and investor mentors, representing $40B in market value or investment assets.

Investor lessons from working at three billion-dollar companies and mentoring 200+ founders.

Hard Choices: One decision. Why it matters. So what?Over-reliance on a few major customers may feel like a win but creates fragility and triggers valuation discounts from wary investors. Leaders must prioritize revenue diversification and cap exposure before a single buyer gains "veto rights" over the business.------------Join the top climate CEO peer group in North America.Become an EFI Climate CEO Fellow — a confidential peer community for Series A to private equity-backed CEOs in climate tech and sustainability. Capped at 100 CEOs and investor mentors, representing $40B in market value or investment assets.

How micro power plants on residential rooftops are reducing electricity costs and removing power utility bottlenecks.

Here are three NEW topics on climate tech finance, decision tools, and mindful leadership:

The leading provider of wildfire and extreme weather risk mitigation solutions protecting communities and assets for utilities, insurance, and fire agencies

Here are today's three NEW topics on climate tech finance, decision tools, and mindful leadership:

VC backing for the world's most compact, modular, and cost-effective electric powertrains without rare earth minerals risk

Here are today's three NEW topics on climate tech finance, decision tools, and mindful leadership:

Producing the highest performance, lowest power, and best total cost of ownership solution for AI transformer model inference.

Here are today's five NEW topics on climate & clean energy, startup investment, AI for entrepreneurs, and mindfulness in leadership:1.

Using off-the-shelf tech to convert methane, CO2 emissions, and waste into carbon-negative fuels and green chemicals like methanol and ammonia.

Here are today's five NEW topics on climate & clean energy, startup investment, AI for entrepreneurs, and mindfulness in leadership:1.

Climate resilience via better data: 7 cm-resolution via satellites and aerial imagery that does in hours what 80,000 drones would do in weeks.

Axiom Cloud also helps grocery stores and cold chain storage companies reduce energy use by 11% and avoid costly maintenance.

Project finance for carbon removed from the atmosphere to supply beverage and heavy industry customers in the US and abroad.

Here are today's five NEW topics on climate & clean energy, startup investment, AI for entrepreneurs, and mindfulness in leadership:1.

Here are today's five NEW topics on climate & clean energy, startup investment, AI for entrepreneurs, and mindfulness in leadership:1.

Here are today's five topics on climate & clean energy, startup investment, AI for entrepreneurs, and mindfulness in leadership:1.

Here are today's five topics on climate & clean energy, startup investment, AI for entrepreneurs, and mindfulness in leadership:1.

Ex-Tesla engineers raise $60M for solar and battery-powered RVs, creating tomorrow's camping today and relevant for 1 in 10 Americans.

Here are today's five topics on climate & clean energy, startup investment, AI for entrepreneurs, and mindfulness in leadership:1.

Discover why Shell, Eni, and MCJ invested in this molten borate carbon capture tech led by an MIT PhD.

Here are today's five topics on climate & clean energy, startup investment, AI for entrepreneurs, and mindfulness in leadership:1.

Learn from two climate tech VC investors sharing startup lessons in energy, buildings, mobility, and industry.

Here are today's five topics on climate & clean energy, startup investment, AI for entrepreneurs, and mindfulness in leadership:1. CLIMATE DATAWhich cities have the most startup funding? 2. CEO TO KNOWToussaint Wattinne @ Upway — $60M for sustainable mobility3. INVESTOR SPOTLIGHTTim Krysiek @ Climate Technology Fund of MassMutual Ventures4. AI INSIGHTDon't be scared: “100 million jobs erased by AI in the USA in 10 years.” 5. MINDFUL MOMENT“Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”--------Join EFI's Climate CEO Peer GroupBecome an EFI Climate CEO Fellow—North America's top invite-only peer community for growth-stage CEOs in climate tech and sustainability. 100 CEOs and Mentors representing $40B in market value or investment assets.

Serial entrepreneurs, MIT professors, and climate tech experts share their blueprint for building startups in this new book.

Tackling superpollutants, carbon insetting, digital carbon, and ESG strategy consulting before climate tech was cool.

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With 40 million electric bikes worldwide, we need Upway's marketplace to refurbish and resell them at scale.

Enjoy this brief primer on how to establish a board of advisors for your startup (or negotiate a seat on one). In our EFI climate CEO peer group, we have a growing library of these hot topic primers. To get more like this, join 40,000 who get my Climate CEOs newsletter. https://entrepreneursforimpact.substack.com

100,000 people joined 1,000 events in NYC last week for the Climate Week. In this 18-minute podcast, I summarize 16 highlights from my time there. If you like this, join 40,000 who get my Climate CEOs newsletter. https://entrepreneursforimpact.substack.com

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Electric vehicles, charging, and support in one predictable monthly payment (4 million EV fleet vehicles by 2030).

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Mapping $1.9 Trillion in global climate finance. Who invests? Who gets the funding?

Hear 5 themes from Sept. 10th EFI CEO & investor discussion on AI in climate tech in practice. Additionally, discover 7 ways AI is a climate champion, along with 14 example companies. (From my newsletter. Join 40,000 who get it. https://entrepreneursforimpact.substack.com)

Using robots and microfactories to build energy-efficient, affordable homes, resilient to natural disasters.

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AI-powered agtech infrastructure is growing climate-friendly crops while boosting farmer profitability—backed by horticultural expertise and data science.

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Learn how to dramatically lower HVAC energy use via metal organic frameworks with Sorin Grama, CEO of Transaera.

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Legendary VC investor Brad Feld explains why “giving first” (his new book) is the key to building resilient founders, impactful startups, and thriving startup communities—especially in climate tech and turbulent times.

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Learn how Realta Fusion raised a giant Series A VC round to commercialize university tech for affordable fusion energy in industrial heating.

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