Category: Green Business

  • #1 Secret to Selling Effortlessly

    #1 Secret to Selling Effortlessly

    This morning I did my usual routine of going to the gym.   Except it was anything but usual. Here I was, on the stationery bike, doing my normal intense 30-minute ride, so engrossed in beating my previous time on the bike that I didn’t notice the two people in business suits standing there.  Nor did…

  • Six Green Movers and Shakers of New York City’s Startup Scene

    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…

  • Stuck Launching Your Business?

    Stuck Launching Your Business?

    It isn’t often we get good news from Afghanistan.  So you can imagine my delight when reading a rare exception, as reported in this week’s New York Times. Meet Meena Rahmani, a 28-year-old Afghan woman who recently opened the country’s first bowling alley.  And while much of the country’s businesses are closing, Ms. Rahmani’s six-month-old…

  • Entrepreneurs Solving World’s Challenges

    Entrepreneurs Solving World’s Challenges

    The room was filled with a tension so thick that movement came in quakes. Ten companies were ready to stand: 13 modules complete, six weeks in the making, self-vetted and prepared with only five minutes to present. About 80 investors, lawyers and guests had come to listen to the final ten showcase their businesses at…

  • Are You Really Green? How to Tell a Real vs. Fake Green Business

    Are You Really Green? How to Tell a Real vs. Fake Green Business

    Last week I was at an important event here in New York City for small businesses. And was beaming like a proud parent. Except it wasn’t for my child, but for my brother, Anselm. He was receiving the Green Small Business Award for 2013 from the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce for his booming company, Ecologic…

  • 8 Steps to Achieving Critical Mass

    8 Steps to Achieving Critical Mass

    Early last month my wife and I were enjoying our walk around the park just steps from our new home here in Brooklyn. At one point we stopped and could not help but worry about the local geese, swans and various species of birds that were standing on the frozen pond covered in snow that…