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Bioenergy Profits Principles: Obtaining Vital Information, and cellulosic ethanol

What is it I was Looking For?: PROFITS Principle, Obtaining Vital Information – Part II
Over the next few weeks, Dr. Rosalie Lober, highlights (from her newly released book, Run Your Business like a Fortune 100: 7 Principles for Boosting PROFITS), proven principles to running your business more effectively and illustrates best practices of currently successful [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Obtain Vital Information — looking at Mascoma, Amyris, Virent, LS9 and Qteros

Cellulosic Ethanol – Let me count the ways….
In this new series of articles, Biofuels Digest, takes a more detailed exploration of bioprocessing technology for cellulosic ethanol.  Over the next few installments, Dr. Rosalie Lober, highlights (from her newly released book, Run Your Business like a Fortune 100: 7 Principles for Boosting PROFITS), proven principles to [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Obtaining Vital Information, and Codexis

What Do You Have To Know?
Bioenergy PROFITS Principle – Obtaining Vital Information
As your company’s CEO or a member of the senior management team, of course you know what your company’s technology is.  But…do your employees understand the processes well enough to explain them to anyone who asks about these processes?
Every person in your company [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: “You Cannot Be Everything For Everyone”

YOU CANNOT BE EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE….

What is growth in your industry?  For most, it is expansion, profitability or some other measures indicating success.  There is usually risk taking involved and the expectation is that this risk will reap rewards in the near future.
Position Only For Growth is essential to growing any business, and [...]

Algae repositions as biofuels’ “humble but lovable” feedstock: industry gathers in positive, but low-key annual Summit

The biotech elevator pitch usually adheres to a ‘rule of 5′.
The offer is invariably a product platform that “is going to transform everything we do in our civilization.” Scientists ask for 5 more years of research; CEOs ask for $5 million in Series A funding; salesmen ask for ‘just 5 minutes of your time’.
Because salesmen [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: “It’s not about you, it’s about the customer”

IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU

We all know it’s about the customer, yet that’s easier said than done.
Today’s topic is Part II of Obtaining Vital Information to alleviate fear and influence your stakeholders. Obtaining Vital Information is one of the seven Bioenergy PROFITS Principles.  This series highlights proven principles to running your business more effectively (from [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: “Success = Integrating Your Supply Chain”

by Biofuels Digest columnist Dr. Rosalie Lober
Every element of your business must be interconnected.  You spend a great deal of time and effort improving your company’s internal processes, yet how much do you invest in making sure that all your systems and processes work well together?  Do you notice any parts that do not belong [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Your Company’s Execution, A Public Hanging or a First Class Orchestra

Your reputation has a direct correlation to attracting funding.
PROFITS Principles serve as a guide for how to operate and manage a business effectively, (from the newly released book, Run Your Business Like a Fortune 100: 7 Principles for Boosting PROFITS, by Rosalie Lober, Ph.D.).
The ability to attract funding opportunities is the single most pressing challenge [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Reality — Does the Emperor have clothes?

By Biofuels Digest columnist Dr. Rosalie Lober
New entrepreneurs are exciting and full of energy.  Passion, intensity, focus ñ bordering on obsession is what most entrepreneurs include in stories of their road to success.
What distinguishes a successful entrepreneur from a rat running a maze?
The answer is the ability to identify and face reality!
We continue to apply [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Amyris Biotechnologies and “Obtaining Only Vital Information”

By Biofuels Digest columnist Dr. Rosalie Lober
What do we do next?  Successful companies have choices!
A successful company has options.  A successful company has possibilities.
This is not only true because of their profitability and/or revenues and market share.  It results from the confidence the company gains by achieving its goals. Most times, success comes because of [...]