{"id":708747,"date":"2010-04-04T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:02:15","slug":"start-ups-not-bailouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/708747","title":{"rendered":"Start-Ups, Not Bailouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This op-ed says it all.  http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/04\/opinion\/04friedman.html<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I am not usually a huge Tom Friedman fan (although I like him), mainly because I find that while he is an amazing communicator, I am not usually spurred to action.  This time I am.  The data here is well known to me because I follow the Kaufmann Foundation, but the bigger question for this group is, &#8220;what can we do to get the Obama administration to care?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The bottom line is that outside of R&amp;D, helping entrepreneurs is tough.  It requires focusing on the Presidential Climate Action Project: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climateactionproject.com\/\">http:\/\/www.climateactionproject.com\/<\/a> and removing other barriers that are not too sexy but pave the way for risk taking. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I like the climate bill in Washington, but I like removing common sense barriers better.  By removing these barriers we can help entrepreneurs take the step to start a Climate Change Solutions business.  <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Jigar Shah<\/div>\n<div>CEO, Carbon War Room<\/div>\n<div>www.creatingclimatewealth.com<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Content provided by and all rights reserved to CleantechBlog.com.  Also check out http:\/\/www.cleantech.org<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/16432059-6277744521691129136?l=www.cleantechblog.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This op-ed says it all. http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/04\/opinion\/04friedman.html I am not usually a huge Tom Friedman fan (although I like him), mainly because I find that while he is an amazing communicator, I am not usually spurred to action. This time I am. The data here is well known to me because I follow the Kaufmann Foundation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Ynp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810242,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708747\/revisions\/810242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}