Jim Lyons is the CTO of Novus Energy Partners. He recently took this position after a 30 year career with General Electric. At GE, he was the corporate champion behind GE's 2002 entry into the wind energy business - the company's most successful startup with estimated 2008 revenues of $6B.
Jim Lyons received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his Masters in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and his PhD from Cornell University.
On business plans though, things have changed post-meltdown here. We can't count on getting a DUE grant; that's not a business plan, right? So, you need to have a business plan that will fund the business stably for a couple years, so you don't get caught, having to go out and raise capital when th...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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