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Water & Climate: Wicked Problem Meets Threat Multiplier

Water insecurity due to climate change has the potential to uproot nearly every aspect of modern society: food production, urban and rural settlements, energy production, industrial development, economic growth, and natural ecosystems. Water and climate…

Is “Construction Industry Innovation” an Oxymoron?

If you are an executive at a medium to large construction or engineering firm, you probably are excited to see the momentum towards investing in infrastructure. You are probably also aware that there is an…

Learning To Learn Again in 2022

Don’t let old ways of thinking interfere with your startup. Learning to learn again — especially with these books and podcasts — will help you operate in the new world. As the CEO and Chief…

The Colorado River Basin: Why We Need Watershed Scale Solutions

Entrepreneurs To Solve Wicked Water Problems While water scarcity, poor quality, lack of access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene and inequity of water services are a global problem, the solutions are typically at…

Understanding the Valuation Math on the VC Term Sheet

Let’s pretend for a minute that the economy we’ve known and understood for the past ten years is back: we’re allowed out of the house, business is booming, and you’re ready to take your show…

The Aurora Forge Is Launched by Industry Experts to Grow Seed-Stage Startups With Innovations To Help Solve the World’s Biggest Problems

With the exceeding emergence of innovators pioneering new solutions to influence world markets significantly, the creation and introduction of various disruptive technologies have caused constant advancement and fluctuations within multiple industries and markets. As these…

The Role of the Business in Solving “Wicked Problems”

As the public sector worldwide continues to struggle to solve economic, environmental, and social challenges, the private sector is now being called upon to fill the gap. Yet this falls outside of the role that…

Opinion: Corporations Need To Do More To Solve Global Water Problems

Water insecurity and low resiliency revealed by the Covid-19 pandemic make it clear that stewardship is not enough: We need greater collaboration, innovation, and engagement with public policy June 19, 2020 — As the coronavirus…

The Texas Nexus: What the Absence of Us Water Strategy Looks Like

The United States doesn’t have a national water strategy. It has no shortage of local, state, regional and federal regulations but ultimately no federal strategy. The country is a ship without a rudder. The U.S.…

Why SPACs Are Risky – The Dangers of SPACs for Investors

Since I started this series on the dangers of SPACs, Bloomberg has run an in-depth story about one of the kings of SPACs, Chamath Palihapitiya, and how he’s promoting SPACs as an end run around the “morons” who…