Daily Archives: August 2, 2016

6 Keys To Product Development Effectiveness

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Two years ago, I was just starting to raise a second round of capital to catapult my startup from public beta to prime-time. The startup, called Camerama, was a photo sharing app akin to a private Instagram. Along the way, I met the Chief Product Officer of Forbes who I very much wanted as an investor, but even more so as an advisor. After a few coffee meetings, he threw a curveball at me – “why don’t you bring your product and team to Forbes and build it out for us?”  

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New York Takes A Bite Out Of Carbon By Throwing A Bone To Nuclear Energy

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New York State is enacting a Clean Energy Standard that will at least temporarily save its nuclear plants located upstate. While the tack has wide support among power companies and the labor movement, it is opposed by green energy groups that think state monies would be better invested in wind and solar.
While nuclear energy is a base-load fuel that runs around the clock and that, generally, is carbon-free, it is unable to compete with cheap natural gas in today’s markets. The paradox, of course, is whether to let free markets work or whether to slant the playing field to achieve environmental standards. To this end, the question doesn’t just apply to nuclear energy but also to green fuels, and coal.
“This is one of the most impressive, progressive and aggressive renewable energy programs a state has ever seen,” says Merrill Kramer, an energy and project finance attorney for Sullivan & Worcester in Washington, in an interview. “The Clean Energy Standard includes nuclear energy because it would be too expensive and too aggressive to achieve success without it.”

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