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Powerful principles, perfect product
This article is part of the Building a Sustainable Business series about starting and running a sustainable business. Read all articles here.My determination to start a business erupted from my divorce...
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Wild ERP
This article is part of the Building a Sustainable Business series about starting and running a sustainable business. Read all the articles here.Startups typically take a cavalier approach to their...
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Frugal Innovation
This article is part of the Building a Sustainable Business series about starting and running a sustainable business. Read all articles here.It slices, it dices, it vacuums and cleans! And it even lets...
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License to Kill
This article is part of the Building a Sustainable Business series about starting and running a sustainable business. Read all the articles here.Are you a socially responsible individual? If so, here...
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Love your lawyer
This article is part of the Building a Sustainable Business series about starting and running a sustainable business. Read all the articles here.Ignore Shakespeare. Do not kill all the lawyers. You...
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LEEDing your office
This article is part of the Building a Sustainable Business series about starting and running a sustainable business. Read all the articles here.Once again, the San Francisco Bay Area LEEDs the way to...
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MBA in a book
This article is part of the Building a Sustainable Business series about starting and running a sustainable business. Read all the articles here.How a company is managed is important to all businesses,...
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Return from the dark side
This article is part of the Building a Sustainable Business series about starting and running a sustainable business. Read all the articles here.I’ve been working 24/7 to get my company off the ground...
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Get organized
This article is part of the Building a Sustainable Business series about starting and running a sustainable business. Read all the articles here.Organize files! shows up on my calendar or my brain...
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No place like home
This article is part of the Building a Sustainable Business series about starting and running a sustainable business. Read all the articles here.A few years ago I was living in Brussels, Belgium,...
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Is your tech clean?
This article is part of the Building a Sustainable Business series about starting and running a sustainable business. Read all the articles here.Cleantech, renewables, green tech, and sustainable...
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"Cool" cash, cold heart
This article is part of the Building a Sustainable Business series about starting and running a sustainable business. Read all the articles here.Every new business needs a bank that will treasure you,...
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Patent protection
“Patents are a company’s crown jewels,” says Carina Tan of Reed Smith. "They deserve the same level of security that Queen Elizabeth installed in the Tower of London.” But, all too often in the...
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Creating wealth
The world as we know it today is about to change for the worse because of those pesky Europeans. In order to survive, Europe needs to grow their economies and create wealth. The problem is, they don’t...
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Ball of confusion
This article is part of the Building a Sustainable Business series about starting and running a sustainable business. Read all the articles here.Bellwether Materials is proud to announce that we are...
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Greenwashing exposé
This article is part of the Building a Sustainable Business series about starting and running a sustainable business. Read all the articles here.I have known for several years that BuildingGreen...
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Taking personal responsibility
There are so many save-the-world groups shouting about subscriptions, donations, products, signatures, calls to action, as well as those irritating chuggers (charity muggers) who jump out at you on the...
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Human factor
At a recent panel discussion on the sustainable corporation, the usual suspects were there in force – sustainability officers from Intel, SAP, Google, and others.What was missing was any agreement on...
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How much product chemical testing is necessary?
“The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.” (Paracelsus 1493 – 1554). A Stanford research project has come to the conclusion that organic food has pretty much the same nutritional value as...
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Why attend SOCAP?
It’s hard to find a group of entrepreneurs and investors who are not focused solely on technology. Even the Cleantech Open, where Bellwether Materials won the 2010 Sustainability Award, has shifted to...
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SOCAP12 welcomes one and all
Almost 2,000 people from 50 countries have descended upon Fort Mason this week for the Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) conference. They are a mixed bunch including social entrepreneurs, impact...
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Appreciating evaluation
If you want someone’s eyes to glaze over and suddenly remember an urgent meeting, just mention the phrase, “project evaluation.” It is astounding to me that people will dump millions of dollars into a...
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Looking back at SOCAP12
Before I attended SOCAP last week, I had only a fuzzy idea about the world of social entrepreneurs and impact investing. I didn’t think it had anything to do with my company, Bellwether Materials,...
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French attack on Nutella
Since M. Hollande’s has turned the rich French into tax exiles (rumor has it Gerard Depardieu is next), he has turned his sights on Nutella for his next source of tax revenue.I love Nutella. I first...
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