Category: Green Business
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Six Green Movers and Shakers of New York City’s Startup Scene
Entrepreneur magazine compiled a list highlighting thirty movers and shakers of New York City’s startup scene. How many of their startups are green? If you take a look through the list you will find six movers and shakers who are behind green startups. I’d like to give them special attention. Of the “The Hot 30…
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Pros and Cons to Marketing Your Company as Green
Late last week I found myself in New Jersey in a deep conversation with a friend, Ron Bergamini, CEO of Action Carting, a waste management company. Their several hundred employees and 100+ trucks on the streets makes them one of the largest in NYC. The conversation turned to marketing his company and how to promote…
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How to Manage Your Uncertainty
Last week I was making my rounds with several clients, each involved in the alternative energy space. A couple of the companies are doing extremely well, with one successfully raising a round of capital. One is struggling. Even so, they are all concerned with the incredible uncertainty in the alternative energy space. Not only because…
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Really Ready to Raise Capital for Your Small Business?
This week I started facilitating another FastTrac NYC class of about 30 entrepreneurs. I like starting this intense seven days of training with a powerful guest speaker. A good friend, David Kistner, was kind enough to visit the class. What was supposed to be about 60 minute presentation ended up with me having to kick…
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Smart Capital: Entrepreneurs Don’t Need Wall Street!
Last week we had a great call with close to 300 signups! Smart Funding-Entrepreneurs Don’t Need Wall Street During the interview, we covered: Why Wall Street and banks are not equipped to fund small businesses What are the five crucial components that go into a smart capital raise How entrepreneurs can take matters into their…
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8 Steps to Achieving the UnReasonable
Bill McKibben is a serious environmental advocate. As a founder of 350.org. he has helped coordinate 15,000 rallies in 191 countries since 2009. Time Magazine called him ‘the planet’s best green journalist’ and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was ‘probably the country’s most important environmentalist.’ McKibben and 350.org have stepped are now…
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Where Change is REALLY Coming From
It is hard not to get wrapped up in the energy from Obama’s 2nd Inauguration this week in D.C. The speeches, promises, hopes, and agendas all around changing where things are today. Yet perhaps our excitement is ill-placed. To hang our hats on one man’s team to make the types of changes many of us…
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The Courage to Really Step Up
The woman was handed the mike in our small room of about 150 people. She was nervous about her question to the man on the panel just a few feet away from us. And she had every right to be, given whom she was about to speak to. And even though the woman was not…
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The Importance of Thinking Really Big
By the nature of what I do for a living, I’ve seen some pretty cool and ambitious businesses and business plans. But the one I saw last Friday blew me away. I had just finished listening to a presentation for the first 100% solar powered city in the world, about to be built in southwest…
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Top 7 Ways to Wrap Up the Decade With Your Biz
Yesterday I confused my packed class of new entrepreneurs. We just started a seven-day intense entrepreneur start-up course and they were bouncing off the walls with their new business ideas. And it was like I just poured cold water on them when I asked them how and when they are going to exit their company.…