[dragonwriter]

> Ask HN: How to start a startup that helps combat global warming?

If your goal is to combat global warming, focus on how to do that.

If your goal is to make a scalable business that returns money to investors, focus on a startup.

Unless you have a clear solution to global warming that seems like it would also support a scalable business without compromising its effectiveness, don't try to do both (and if you do have that, incorporate the solution into your question.)

[kevbam]

Thanks for the feedback.

Don't they both go hand in hand? How can it be an effective organization if it is not revenue generating?

In a capitalist world it is not often you see effective organizations that are non profits.

Maybe I am being a little naive here.

[dragonwriter]

> Don’t they both go hand in hand?

No.

> How can it be an effective organization if it is not revenue generating?

Revenue is not the same as profit (return to investors).

> In a capitalist world it is not often you see effective organizations that are non profits.

In a capitalist world, it is not often that you see organizations that are effective at things other than generating profits and externalizing harms.

When you do, they generally are nonprofits.