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Revolution in Sustainable Agricultural Technology — needed to feed the growing population

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO article or 2015 report), the global food system will need to meet a 30% increase in demand by 2025. Further, due to climate change, this will require not just greater efficiency, but also smarter systems — producers must be able to meet changing consumer expectations, and farming itself…
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Plunging Renewable Energy Costs highlighted at “RenewFi” in California

Global Expansion Opportunities Abound  By Daniel Robin Recent article in the Economist shows 2014 total investment in renewable energy, most notably in wind and solar, rose by a sixth to $270 billion globally.  Further, changes in the Electricity Market in Mexico, juxtaposed already strong opportunities for greater energy security in emerging markets like the Caribbean,…
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Risk Assessment in the Age of Transparency

Project managers and CEOs alike often look at me like I’m crazy when I advocate that they disclose all the major risks — the things that could go wrong, even if the chances are slim that they will. I’ve been doing this work for many years and still get “the look”.  If this seems like…
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Definition: Impact Project Finance

And why it matters in 2025 and beyond Project Finance is the funding of long-term infrastructure, industrial projects, and diverse other types (see In3’s focus sectors) using a “nonrecourse” or limited-recourse financial structure. That means the tradition of debt and equity, or minority equity only in the case of In3CAP, used to finance the project, which means the owners…
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Impact Investing for Sustainability — the emerging opportunity

Large numbers of people around the world have experienced the removal of historic constraints. Attainment of their newfound freedoms coincides with more wealth, longer life spans, better communication, and an array of [social and environmental] problems that necessitate the creation of new solutions. – From Social Entrepreneurship … what everyone needs to know, by David…
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Overcoming Barriers to Innovation

Why talk about barriers to effective innovation?  Certainly it helps to identify obstacles to assist with breaking through to solutions, but nobody intentionally torpedoes a splendid idea, so surfacing what goes wrong is a powerful way to reduce missteps.  If a barrier gets in the way, slowing or stopping further development, you’ll never realize its value. How…
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Types of Funding — Project Finance, Trade Finance, and Venture Finance

What are the uses for, and sources of, different types of financing? What are the main distinctions between project finance, trade finance, corporate finance and venture capital?  They all have much in common, especially at first glance.  Most sources of capital specialize, so it is helpful to know what type of capital best fits your…
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US JOBS Act changes to fundraising rules

Calling it a “potential game changer,” President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (known as the JOBS Act) into law on April 5, 2012.  The SEC still has to implement changes in support of these new policies. Whether you’re already raising capital or just now contemplating the optimal campaign strategy, this will help ease…
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OPIC Selects In3 Capital group of Daniel Robin & Associates as Originators

Contact:  Daniel Robin                                                           FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tel: +1.831-761-0700 OPIC SELECTS DANIEL ROBIN & ASSOCIATES (IN3 CAPITAL) AS ORIGINATORS WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC, now DFC) has selected the In3 Capital Group of Daniel Robin & Associates, a business development consulting and investment firm, to serve as an Originator for a growing alliance…
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