Entrepreneurship and Green Ventures
Entrepreneurship and Green Ventures
Is it your dream to have your own green business? These pages will present some opportunities for doing just that. And if you would like help in making your dream take shape to become a reality, please contact Bill Scalzitti, info@transitioningtogreen.com
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Should You Be An Entrepreneur? Take this Test.
3:10 PM Friday February 12, 2010
by Daniel Isenberg
Some of your friends are doing it. People who do it are in the front pages and web almost every day. Even President Obama is talking about it. So should you do it? Should you join the millions of people every year who take the plunge and start their first ventures? I've learned in my own years as an entrepreneur — and now an entrepreneurship professor — that there is a gut level "fit" for people who are potential entrepreneurs. I've developed a 2–minute Isenberg Entrepreneur Test, below, to help you find out. Just answer yes or no. [READ MORE]
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One Man's Trash
Forget recycling. Reusing materials discarded in the manufacturing process is a growing force behind a fresh new industry. By Jennifer Wang | Entrepreneur Magazine - April 2011
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Stuck in Middle Management?
How buying a franchise can help you break though the “Gray Ceiling”
It’s the fault of those Baby Boomers, really, or so statisticians are telling us. That great mass of people born between the years of 1946 and 1964 are now firmly ensconced in upper management positions in corporate America, and those underneath, say in their late 30s to mid 40s, are finding their own career advancement put on hold as the Boomers, like the Energizer Bunny, just keep going and going and going.
Entrepreneur
Expensive Mistakes to Avoid as a New Franchisee
By Jeff Elgin: Buying a Franchise
Building a business has many hidden costs. But learning from those who've gone the road before you can be a great money-saving tactic.
Boston Business Journal
Recycline Inc.: Green ambitions
Eco-friendly home-products maker takes responsible path to growth
It's not easy being green.
That's what Eric Hudson learned in the late 1990s when he was looking for manufacturers to produce a toothbrush made from recycled plastic.
"In the early days it was something I used to have to keep close to the vest, what I was doing, so people wouldn't kick me out of their offices," said Hudson, who founded Waltham-based Recycline Inc. in 1996.
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
Q & A with Bhaskar Chakravorti by Martha Lagace, February 23, 2009
Executive Summary
Entrepreneurs, take heart. True, the global economic malaise removes opportunities and precious resources—but also adds them in new and interesting ways, argues HBS senior lecturer Bhaskar Chakravorti. In this Q&A he identifies reasons for optimism, and shows how entrepreneurs can think differently about bad news.
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