Comments on: Perils of Purchase: V2Green’s Founder Sues GridPoint http://earth2tech.com/2009/03/26/perils-of-purchase-v2greens-founder-sues-gridpoint/ Helping the Earth with Technology Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:21:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: joe http://earth2tech.com/2009/03/26/perils-of-purchase-v2greens-founder-sues-gridpoint/#comment-28928 joe Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:09:57 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27220#comment-28928 <p>Every successful startup eventually pushes aside the founder for professional managers ... but wasn't that rather quick in this case? Good luck to Mr. Kaplan with his lawsuit. Employment contracts so often give the employer an out when they want to let the employee go.</p> Every successful startup eventually pushes aside the founder for professional managers … but wasn’t that rather quick in this case? Good luck to Mr. Kaplan with his lawsuit. Employment contracts so often give the employer an out when they want to let the employee go.

]]> By: Dean http://earth2tech.com/2009/03/26/perils-of-purchase-v2greens-founder-sues-gridpoint/#comment-28479 Dean Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:11:57 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27220#comment-28479 <p>Some faith has been lost in Gridpoint, I cant believe they would ripoff their employees. While they started intially, there was little competition. Recently they have been struggling in the face of competition and trying to partner desperately.</p> <p>There is very little intellectual property if any in house. They are now one among the herd if not behind, the features are mundane. Positivenergy up the street has a cheaper and better solution.</p> <p>For example, in Maryland, the utility opted out of Gridpoint and implemented the same offering as Gridpoint without the Gridpoint portal, this begs the question on what value do they really bring.</p> <p>Advertising, campaigning and lobbying seems fairly strong. This veil might save them for only so long.</p> <p>From day one - Seems like they are involved in multiple legal battles, their last counsel left back to AOL - loosing faith as well perhaps, then the COO leaves, then their engineering head leaves. Imagine the ones they dont publish!</p> <p>They are losing a lot of the founding members from when they began, brain drain - this says something!</p> <p>Unlike the eMeters, TendrilInc, Control4, SSN (silver spring networks), Gridpoint has a lot of money, but imagine their burn rate.</p> <p>Google and GE opted out of Gridpoint and choose, Tendril, SilverSpring networks. http://seekingalpha.com/article/128749-google-invests-in-silver-spring-networks</p> <p>http://earth2tech.com/2009/03/31/first-up-for-google-ventures-silver-springs-smart-grid/</p> <p>When smartgrid go Global they will be undercut by the chinese etc, where are they going to get money then - wait, the tax payers money is going to bail them out as a stimulus bill!!!</p> Some faith has been lost in Gridpoint, I cant believe they would ripoff their employees. While they started intially, there was little competition. Recently they have been struggling in the face of competition and trying to partner desperately.

There is very little intellectual property if any in house. They are now one among the herd if not behind, the features are mundane.
Positivenergy up the street has a cheaper and better solution.

For example, in Maryland, the utility opted out of Gridpoint and implemented the same offering as Gridpoint without the Gridpoint portal, this begs the question on what value do they really bring.

Advertising, campaigning and lobbying seems fairly strong. This veil might save them for only so long.

From day one – Seems like they are involved in multiple legal battles, their last counsel left back to AOL – loosing faith as well perhaps, then the COO leaves, then their engineering head leaves. Imagine the ones they dont publish!

They are losing a lot of the founding members from when they began, brain drain – this says something!

Unlike the eMeters, TendrilInc, Control4, SSN (silver spring networks), Gridpoint has a lot of money, but imagine their burn rate.

Google and GE opted out of Gridpoint and choose, Tendril, SilverSpring networks.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/128749-google-invests-in-silver-spring-networks

http://earth2tech.com/2009/03/31/first-up-for-google-ventures-silver-springs-smart-grid/

When smartgrid go Global they will be undercut by the chinese etc, where are they going to get money then – wait, the tax payers money is going to bail them out as a stimulus bill!!!

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