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Entrepreneurs - their vision, optimism, and energy - are the source of value creation.

Indeed, entrepreneurs are entrepreneurs because they believe in and are willing to expend energy to achieve that vision.

Some of the challenges in building companies is in putting together the right team and properly incentivising them. Other common "growth challenges" comes as a company "professionalises" : instilling rigour into a company as its product range grows, and in parallel creating management reporting system as it grows in size.

We are in the company building business, not in the "deal" or "capital" business. We leverage our relationships to help build teams, attract partners and help companies realise their vision. We are therefore active partners who do everything we can for our companies and are 100% dedicated to the Asian clean energy sector

To give entrepreneurs a kick-start, we have pulled together here some reading materials that will be useful as they face these challenges.

Entrepreneurship

"What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial"

"Why entrepreneurs don't scale"

Growing - and growing up

"The questions every entrepreneur must answer"

"How to hire the best people you have ever worked with (from Marc Andreassen)"

"Building a better board"

"Teamwork at the top"

Financing

"Note on private equity deal structures"

What to know about due diligence

US private equity valuation guideline

International VC and private equity valuation guideline

"Talking it over, and over, and over" (an interesting and short take on how to deal with investors)

Advantages of private equity ownership

Clean energy for CEOs

Business Strategies for Climate Change (McKinsey Quarterly)

Cost curve for greenhouse gas reductions (McKinsey Quarterly)

Clean Energy Resources

Alternative Energy Stocks

Go Green to Green

Renewable Resource Data Center

Global Renewable Energy Policies and Measures

New Energy Finance

For fun

How important it is to be clear about assumptions