| Accounts Receivable Financing- Cleantech
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| | efficient light bulbs and double pane
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| explores the emerging definitions of
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| | windows for superior insulation- this is
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| "cleantech" and world of "cleantech
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| | cleantech. Other cleantech examples are
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| industries" at a time when the world is
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| | wind turbines, fuel-efficient engines,
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| increasingly concerned with global
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| | geothermal energy, energy-efficient
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| warming, our energy supply and pollution.
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| | appliances and water treatment systems.
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| Accounts receivable financing may be an
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| | The momentum of cleantech is growing
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| important source of funding for cleantech
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| | because of international political issues
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| industries when banks and venture
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| | such as climate change, energy security
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| capitalists are unwilling to provide
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| | issues and concerns about CO2 emissions.
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| capital for growth to new and
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| | Consumers are demanding faster, cheaper,
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| significantly risky companies and
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| | lighter and cleaner products. Large
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| technologies.
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| | corporations are responding with greening
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| Look at the headlines in your newspaper.
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| | efforts. The potential growth in the
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| Environmental concerns are major concerns
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| | cleantech industry is a worldwide
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| today and every day: people are worried
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| | opportunity for business of all sizes to
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| about the price of gas; scientists and
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| | participate in a huge marketplace.
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| governments are debating the issue of
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| | Entrepreneurs have unprecedented
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| global warming and what to do about it;
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| | opportunities to create transformative
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| stories abound regarding solar energy and
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| | technologies in the cleantech industry.
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| other alternative energy sources such as
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| | Cleantech starts with an idea, an
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| nuclear energy, biodiesel fuel
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| | entrepreneur, and a new business to
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| production, and energy produced by wind
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| | incubate a technology, a processes or an
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| farms. The price of a gallon of gas and
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| | innovation. Until the company has proven
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| how many miles to the gallon a particular
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| | the technology and has significant
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| car can achieve- both are familiar
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| | revenue and growth, it is unlikely to
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| topics. The quality of our air is
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| | draw attention from large industrial
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| reported regularly and in some areas
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| | conglomerates, angel investors or venture
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| alerts are posted on particularly
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| | capitalists. Entrepreneurial start-ups
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| polluted air days. The purity of our
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| | have a much higher risk tolerance to
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| water and whether or not we will have
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| | nurture fledgling technology and retain
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| enough water for humans and agriculture
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| | the talent that start-ups attract.
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| are serious concerns. Is it any wonder
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| | Accounts receivable financing can provide
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| that world wide concerns regarding our
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| | capital for start-ups to achieve
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| environment are subjects of intense
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| | profitability when other types of
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| debate today? What are governments and
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| | financing are not available.
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| businesses doing about these issues? What
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| | The dominant cleantech markets are solar
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| is cleantech? According to the Cleantech
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| | energy, efficiency technologies (sensors,
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| Group: "Cleantech is any knowledge based
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| | monitoring and control devices), energy
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| product or service that improves
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| | storage, and water technologies. The
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| operational performance, productivity or
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| | emergent cleantech markets are bio-based
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| efficiency; while reducing costs, inputs,
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| | materials, marine energy technologies,
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| energy consumption, waste or pollution."
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| | superconductors and waste-reducing plasma
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| In other words, cleantech may be a
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| | technologies. Government subsidies may be
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| product, a technology, or an application
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| | a blessing and potential curse because if
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| (way of doing things) that achieves
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| | removed, an entire industry economically
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| environmental and social goals with
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| | based on subsidies such as the solar
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| economic benefits superior to the status
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| | energy industry might go bankrupt. The
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| quo.
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| | creativity and ingenuity of small
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| Another definition by Diana Propper of
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| | entrepreneurs cannot be underestimated.
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| Expansion Capital Partners states: "On
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| | They will invent ways to make products,
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| one side, cleantech is really about
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| | services, and processes cheaper, faster,
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| resource efficiency and productivity in
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| | longer and cleaner. As soon as they can
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| supply- how to manufacture and produce to
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| | bring these innovations to market and
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| save energy, water, materials, etc. On
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| | receive purchase orders for sales,
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| the other side, these technologies are
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| | accounts receivable financing companies
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| enhancing the bottom line of customers."
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| | will take the financing risks by
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| Solar energy, subsidized by government
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| | purchasing the receivables which will
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| and the Prius automobile come to mind.
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| | create virtually unlimited capital for
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| Thomas L. Friedman in the New York Times,
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| | growth. Exponential growth for business
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| January 2006 said: "Sorry, but being
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| | is needed in a world that needs
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| green, focusing the nation on greater
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| | exponential growth of cleantech.
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| energy efficiency and conservation, is
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| | Attention: entrepreneurs! Here is a
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| not some girlie-man issue. It is actually
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| | partial list of businesses that need
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| the most tough-minded, geo-strategic
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| | cleantech innovation: car batteries,
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| pro-growth and patriotic thing we can
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| | hybrid engines, lighting, toys,
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| do."
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| | photograph tools, appliances, watches,
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| The meaning of cleantech is changing with
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| | calculators, medical equipment, diving
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| innovations and new thinking. For
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| | equipment, cell phones, cordless phones,
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| instance, polluted land, called
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| | portable computers, power tools,
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| brownfields, may be remediated i.e.
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| | industrial instruments, cranes,
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| cleaned up into greenfields- land
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| | elevators, portable power generators,
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| suitable for homes or industry- this is
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| | lawn care equipment and energy storage
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| cleantech. New technologies like sensors,
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| | devices. Opportunities abound.
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| monitors and scrubbers to reduce
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| | The bottom line: as the meaning of
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| pollution from factories in Singapore
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| | cleantech expands so do the opportunities
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| that manufacture semiconductors- this is
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| | for entrepreneurs. Accounts receivable
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| cleantech. Fuels for cars that pollute
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| | financing may be the capital source to
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| less like electric cars or ethanol
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| | help you succeed in the cleantech
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| engines- this is cleantech. Energy
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| | industry.
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