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Emin Askerov
Feb 172 min read
🐝 Bees Against Honey: Should Climate Startups Exit to Big Oil?🍯
Do acquisitions of climate tech startups by Big Oil help or hinder energy transition?
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Emin Askerov
Feb 142 min read
How many climate tech startups and VCs are frauds?
I have no idea. Still, the question has been popping up in my head now and again for the last year. Every time I see some “hydrogen...
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Emin Askerov
Jan 281 min read
Two Lessons From Hardware Startup
How selling experience and starting small lets you disrupt an industry.
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Emin Askerov
Jan 271 min read
How Big Should Your FOAK Be?
A 3-step framework for scaling-up to FOAK
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Emin Askerov
Jan 211 min read
Canoo: $1.5B FOAK Failure
What Canoo failure can teach cleantech scaleups?
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Emin Askerov
Jan 202 min read
FOAK Scale-Up Case - A Must-Listen for Climatetech Founders
De-icing a frozen water tower in the middle of nowhere is not on anyone’s job description. However, this is a reality that you can come...
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Emin Askerov
Jan 161 min read
🔥VC Climate Tech Funding Down Again—What Now? 🔥
Venture investors watch the world burn and seek refuge in virtual worlds
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Emin Askerov
Jan 141 min read
🗝️ 12 Keys to Scaling Up 🌱
The best guide so far on scaling up climate tech from Breakthrough Energy Catalyst
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Emin Askerov
Jan 71 min read
🎁 Free One-Hour Consultations for Cleantech Scale-Ups 🌱
This January, I’m offering 20 free one-hour online consultations to startups and investors in the cleantech and climate tech space.
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Emin Askerov
Jan 62 min read
📥Drop-In Solution
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲?
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Emin Askerov
Jan 21 min read
🚧 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵: 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰’𝘀 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝗽 🚧
2024 was a brutal year for hardtech climate startups.
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Emin Askerov
Dec 23, 20242 min read
💡 The Myth of IP Moats: Lessons from the Frontlines
Twice in my career, I’ve dealt with intellectual property (IP). Both times, I came out with one big realization: IP isn’t the holy grail...
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Emin Askerov
Dec 19, 20243 min read
🎉 2024: A Year in Climate Tech Review
As 2024 wraps up, it’s time to reflect on a year that was anything but dull for the climate tech world. A buzzword dominated this year—...
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Emin Askerov
Dec 2, 20242 min read
Why Do Strategic Investors Back Climate Tech Startups?
A Climate First VC artile got me thinking
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Emin Askerov
Nov 28, 20244 min read
Is Your Scale-Up Built on Climate Bricks or Actual Building Blocks?
Review of Clean Tech ScaleUp Manual by Climate Brick
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Emin Askerov
Nov 21, 20243 min read
When Money is the Easy Part
$𝟭𝟮 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻/𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿? $𝟯 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻? 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 $𝟭 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁ion
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Emin Askerov
Nov 19, 20241 min read
🎉 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗔 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 👨🏼💻⚡
Why read my blog?
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Emin Askerov
Oct 7, 20242 min read
The Real Criteria Behind Angel & VC Investment Decisions
Some VC investments are head-scratchers, right? I thought so too. So, I took a deep dive into the world of climate VC investing.
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Emin Askerov
Sep 4, 20241 min read
What do VCs get wrong in Cleantech?
🎙️ Reflecting on the Latest Climate Insiders Podcast with Nadav Steinmitz 🌍
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