Recently, we learned about Solarmer Energy , a spinout of UCLA, which is developing flexible solar panels, and caught up with Woolas Hsieh , President and Founder of the firm and Dina Lozofsky , VP, Corporate Development at the firm to hear more about its emerging technology. Let's The original technology was developed at UCLA by Professor Yang Yang. In the recent surge in interest in the clean technology and energy investment area, we're constantly surprised by the number of startups in the area focused on some aspect of the industry. Let's start on the technology side--can

Although a bit broader topic than typical for this blog, I want to share some notes from a lecture I attended  the other day by well known economist Ed Leamer of the UCLA Anderson School.    Ed was speaking at Kline Hawkes’ annual meeting on Tuesday night.   he is quite concerned about the next wave of teaser-rate resets which will hit in 2010 / 2011 and indicates that we should watch closely how government and banking prepares for this Incidentally, the Kline Hawkes guys have raised a new fund and are rebranding their current fund, website, etc to Vicente Capital Partners .