#103: 💰 21 minutes to help raise millions from investors

5 bullets on climate tech, startups, and productivity

Mar 28, 2023

Good morning, folks.

In today’s 3-minute read, we’ll cover these 5 juicy nuggets below — as satisfying as eating a 1,500-calorie meal in stinking clothing after backpacking in the mountains for a long weekend.

Climate Startups & Investment

#1 — 💸 103 emerging investors in climate tech and sustainable agriculture
#2 — 💰 21 minutes to help raise millions from investors
#3 — ⛅ Job opportunity: Executive Director for carbon removal NGO

Productivity & Living the Good Life

#4 — 🍬 Be like licorice (#GratefulDead)
#5 — 🤷‍♂️ Ignore more: It’s a feature, not a bug

Onward and upward,

Chris

#1 — 💸 103 emerging investors in climate tech and sustainable agriculture.

The Impat Assets 50 Emerging Impact Manager list is now out for 2023.

It includes “newer [investment] fund managers to watch that may demonstrate future potential to create meaningful impact. Criteria such as minimum track record or minimum assets under management may not be applicable.”

Think “savvy but perhaps less well known.”

Maybe you’ll find some gems of new partners here. 💎

#2 — 💰 21 minutes to help raise millions from investors.

Here’s a video from a serial entrepreneur and podcast host of My First Million.

It comes from his “Power Writing” online course, which normally costs $1,000.

But here it’s free.

Mayb it will improve your success when pitching to investors or selling to customers. 🚀

⛅ Job opportunity: Executive Director for carbon removal NGO, Terraset

Would you like to come work with me and a team of bada**es as the new leader of Terraset, the anti-GHG 501c3?

With early donors such as Tim Ferriss and Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen, and initial CDR partners such as Heirloom and Charm?

To help move millions of philanthropic dollars to buy advanced market commitments from carbon removal (CDR) startups?

To catalyze the growth of an industry that needs to scale from 1,000s to 1,000,000,000’s of tons of GHGs removed per year by 2050?

If so…

Here’s the job description for Executive Director.

#4 — 🍬 Be like licorice. #GratefulDead

For all the Dead Heads out there (aka, fans of the 1960s hippie rock band Grateful Dead), this one’s for you.*

“We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.”

- Jerry Garcia, lead vocalist and guitarist

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Said differently…

“Love me or hate me. There’s no money in the middle.”

Obviously, we don’t want haters.

But taking a stand on things and letting your freak flag fly a little bit has some benefits.

Let’s make sure our customers, partners, investors, etc. know who we really are.

(But please don’t disclose everything. Authenticity still has boundaries. 😐)

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* Shout out to Will Fadrhonc, CCO at Hyde Renewables and member of my Climate Mastermind peer group, for this candied jewel.

#5 — 🤷‍♂️ Ignore more: It’s a feature, not a bug.

Do you ever feel like you live under a rock?

Like you’re out of touch with the latest books, bands, or news?

Me, too.

Maybe that’s a good thing.

“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things.

It is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things.

But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other.”

- Epictetus: 2nd century Greek Stoic philosopher and former slave

🎯 That’s all, y’all.

Make it a great week, because it’s usually a choice.

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Cheers,