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Book Title:Disciplined Entrepreneurship for Climate and Energy Ventures
Author:Ben Soltoff
Co-Authors:Bill Aulet, Tod Hynes, Francis O'Sullivan, Libby Wayman
Published:2025
How is your book helping others?
Disciplined Entrepreneurship for Climate and Energy Ventures (DE4CEV) helps people turn ideas into scalable solutions at the intersection of people, planet, and profit. Climate and energy entrepreneurs face challenges that traditional entrepreneurship guides rarely address, including capital-intensive technologies, long development timelines, complex regulation, and the need to deliver both financial and environmental results. Until now, there has been no comprehensive guidebook designed specifically for these challenges. DE4CEV provides a practical, step-by-step framework for identifying customers, evaluating technologies and economics, developing products, attracting capital, managing risk, and scaling organizations. By making climate and energy entrepreneurship more accessible and systematic, it helps innovators translate promising ideas into measurable real-world impact.