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In two new posts today, Electronics Weekly's News Editor, Alex Mayhew-Smith, considers the difficulty of encouraging VCs to invest in greener technologies, and whether the Chinese start-up bubble is about to burst...
Check out Business mechanism for green technologies, which details GCube Underwriting, a new underwriter to insure any renewable energy initiative up to $600m for a single project. The company, based in London and Newport Beach, California, claims to be the biggest insurer of renewable capacity in the world.
In Chinese start-up bubble about to burst?, Alex considers whether a boom in Chinese start-ups is creating a bubble of dotcom-disaster proportions? Specifically, he flags an interesting article has been posted by the US website Salt Lake Tribune.
The article begins by describing a dotcom start-up that provides free videos which already has 15 million users a month. But it has had $30m of investment, has 95 staff but no profits. It begs the question: is there a Chinese dotcom bubble just waiting to burst?...
