Michael Liebreich, the hyper-focussed, high energy founder of New Energy Finance, has scored an impressive deal: being acquired by Bloomberg. Over the past six years, with incredible creativity and discipline, he has build a fantastic business–the number one player–in covering the new energy, cleantech and green energy markets.
Michael was kind enough to let me get involved in New Energy Finance as a small investor. And from the sidelines I was able to watch incredibly disciplined execution, a relentless focus on building a superb team and the best investor communications I have ever seen. And all this with a comparative modicum of external funding (compared to, say, Spinvox) and no VC involvement.
Well done NEF!
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