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This week, #EnergyEvolution takes a look at the realities, complexities, and reasons that startups are eyeing space for a variety of materials to mine, including #metals key to the #EnergyTransition: https://okt.to/Wzo2l8

Entrepreneurship is about recognizing problems and devising better solutions. My focus is on the mining sector specifically aiding artisanal miners who often lack representation and financial services, while leveraging blockchain technology and AI. The vast majority of the world's artisanal miners, estimated at 80%, lack access to basic financial services like credit and insurance. This is due to a number of factors, including the informal nature of the sector and a lack of trust in traditional financial institutions. As a result, these miners are often trapped in a cycle of poverty and exploitation. I'm passionate about changing this. I'm working on building a new financial system that leverages data technology and data for good to provide ASM miners with the financial tools they need to succeed. This platform will use advanced data analytics to assess creditworthiness and offer tailored financial products that meet the specific needs of ASM miners. The team at Axalio understands this vision and mission and this year has been filled with progress and global recognition from various international organizations including IBM through the recent accelerator managed by Village Capital. We're committed to ensuring the security and privacy of the data used in this platform. That's why Axalio is using IBM Hyper Protect Cloud, which offers the highest level of security in the industry. I believe that by working together, we can create a more inclusive and equitable mining sector. Let's empower ASM miners to reach their full potential and build a brighter future for themselves and their communities. 👉🏽 Join us to learn more and be part of the 20 professionals so far who have agreed to participate in our Alpha program: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dBn62wrG Adam Seenu Sam Bill Shevlin Bill Huston Junada Sulillari Hadi Malaeb Barbara Iyayi Patrick A. Howell Nancy Ngbanda Nik Vianney Annea Robinson

MCJ raises a second fund at $80.6 million to invest in climate tech startups #MCJ, a Boston-based climate tech #VC firm, has successfully closed its second fund at $80.6 million, bringing its total assets under management to over $115 million. Founded by Jason Jacobs and managed by a team including Cody Simms and David Aronoff, MCJ focuses on backing startups that are driving the transition of energy and industry to address climate change impacts. The fund's investors include a diverse group of corporate strategics from sectors like insurance, maritime shipping, construction, steel, automotive, software, and consumer electronics, as well as industry leaders and successful founders. MCJ’s portfolio features innovative companies such as Base Power in residential battery storage, Verse in power supply planning, Heirloom in carbon removal, The Nuclear Company in nuclear development, Waterplan in water-risk forecasting, and Paces in green infrastructure software. The article on #VCwiretech in the first comment. Want to stay up to date with the market? Here my newsletter: - Linkedin: https://lnkd.in/d4h8zqKA  - Substack: https://lnkd.in/dzfGJzmW

John Lombela, This is truly inspiring! Tackling the challenges faced by artisanal miners through innovative solutions like blockchain and AI is a game-changer. Your commitment to transforming the mining sector not only addresses a critical need but also sets a precedent for how technology can be harnessed for social good. The use of advanced data analytics by Axalio to assess creditworthiness and provide tailored financial services is a brilliant approach. It's heartening to see how this initiative can break the cycle of poverty and exploitation by offering much-needed financial tools to those who have been traditionally underserved. #InnovationForGood #EmpoweringMiners #TechForChange

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What Theodore Levitt's Re-Post May Have Said | In one way or another I've been around start-up businesses for a while now. Initiatives like this should be supported. Kudos to Society of Petroleum Engineers International for their role and to Bryant Mueller and the others supporting. This got me thinking about "Whole Product" as a marketing concept critical to start-ups. While not necessarily coining the phrase, Theordore Levitt's ideas and insights on marketing and customer centric strategies greatly influenced the concept. Comments from Levitt aligning the SPE initiative with whole product strategy may have included: 1. "People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole." 2. "The function of a business is to get and keep customers." 3. "Marketing is a powerful force that can shape preferences and make people believe they need something they don’t." 4. "To succeed in business, you need to think about the 'whole product' – not just the physical offering, but everything that surrounds it, including service, support, and overall customer experience." 5. "The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. Do the whole product thinking early in your stat-up journey folks. Thanks, as always to Chris Halliwell for opening my eyes to this.

🌌 What is Space Entrepreneurship? 🚀 Space entrepreneurship refers to innovative business ventures focused on space research, exploration, and commercial activities. This field encompasses technologies, launch systems, satellite services, and space mining developed by private companies and entrepreneurs. 🌠 Space entrepreneurship aims to create new business opportunities by harnessing the economic potential of space and expanding humanity's presence in space. 🌍✨ #SpaceEntrepreneurship #SpaceInnovation #SpaceExploration #NewFrontiers #SpaceTech #SpaceMining #SatelliteServices #FutureOfSpace #DreamBig #SpaceEconomy

This month I feel like everyone is talking to me about starting up mining innovation technology companies, and I am like, how much runway do you have? A startup is a homemade airplane; the runway is the time, energy, and space the team has to make the plane take off. If you make a startup too heavy, put on a bunch of expensive people early, for example, and that plane had better be powerful and have lots of resources, or it will crash. The time to shift an industry used to operating and changing with a 25-year horizon rarely matches funding sources' goals. It will take five years to implement a new technology and ten years before it is widely accepted. Please ensure your business plan has slack and you can buy runway. Most of my projects have failed, not because they were dumb ideas but because we did not have enough runway. Tomorrow, I am going to talk about miracles,

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