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Entrepreneur insights: be open, take risks, encourage questions

By Stan Fels | May 19, 2011

My colleagues and I have just finished over a dozen interviews of Bay Area CEOs who were regional semifinalists in Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award program. It was an amazing… more

2011 economic forecasts: be alert, stay flexible

By Stan Fels | February 2, 2011

I recently attended two economic forecast presentations that gave different sets of views on how—and how much—the economy will grow this year. Both were very interesting and provided lots of information, trends and predictions, but… more

Clean energy needs federal policy commitment, project funding

By Stan Fels | November 12, 2010

I attended the third annual Cooley Clean Energy and Technologies Conference November 2 in Redwood Shores, and there were several interesting speakers and discussions. The event focused on innovative models in business, financing,… more

Feds award $1B for R&D to small biotechs

By Stan Fels | November 3, 2010

The life science community has been anxiously waiting for the announcement of the awards for the $1 billion Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project program and the results are out!

Many Bay Area companies did quite well,… more