It's been a difficult decade, he admits, pockmarked by promising projects aborted because funding meant compromise.
And with crowdfunding becoming increasingly, well, crowded, these platforms are having to work harder to poach promising projects off each other.
Facility engineers in the trenches can identify opportunities to improve energy productivity, from upgrading minor components to optimizing entire systems, but if there is a cultural divide between these engineers and corporate decision makers, promising projects die on the vine.
There have been promising projects — including payments network Omise Go and Kik's developer platform — but there are plenty of more problematic ICOs while the number has risen behind 50 token sales per week.
In a first of its kind, half a dozen ICO companies have come together to collaborate on a new fund that plans to pay out more than $100 million to promising projects in the Ethereum crypto space.
Fifty promising projects that were up for peer review were pulled.
This seeded some promising projects, but funding was axed in the 2012 federal transportation bill.
Partners like Tribeca Film Institute contribute to Slated's roster of films by recommending promising projects.
And keeping it alive would have meant $30m-60m less for other promising projects at Fermiless
But in higher education, there are several promising projects that have used online technology effectively.
Grossnose was a Hollywood producer who had mastered the knack of creating insolvency from the most promising projects.
