At Urban E Recycling we take your security very serious. We have invested in • Security cameras • A degausser • HDD crusher for onsite hard drive crushing • State of the art hard drive shredder Do you think that is excessive ? We don't. When it comes to personal data destruction, we go to extremes for your peace of [...]
Your nonprofit might not be in the midst of a data breach crisis, but did you ever ask the question about what your charitable organization's responsibility is when it comes to a data breach? Nonprofits, like many businesses have private information stored on their donors and possibly clients and employees. Securing the data is as important [...]
Avoiding the Dreaded Data Breach Reports about big companies suffering from a data breach seem to become a common recurrence every few months. Issues of credit card details, passwords, and emails from customers getting leaked are often shown, but the highlights are often about the companies. As soon as the controversy starts to fade and [...]
Homegrown venture among Hillsborough County's many small business Urban E Recycling's meteoric rise from a two-person garage operation to a business now grossing $2.6-million annually with three locations and 22 employees is an example of the success small businesses can attain with solid planning, wise decisions, hard work, and some luck. Hillsborough County's Board of County [...]
Baby Caught In A Desktop Scanner It was a hot, sticky day, at Urban E Recycling. It was a hot, sticky day, at Urban E Recycling, just like the last 98 days of our Florida summer. The roaring electric fan was the only relief from the heat, as usual. Yet today was not an ordinary day. [...]
E-Waste: An Emerging Environmental Concern By Daily Excelsior - 25/08/2019 Dr. Anwesha Borthakur With the intensification of the market for electronic products, ‘electronic waste’ emerges as a relatively new yet a rapidly emerging category of waste in the current global environment. Electronic waste, popularly known as E-waste, is a major challenge confronted by almost all [...]
Harry was in a difficult place. Good news is, he just landed an awesome job in the I.T. department at the best health insurance agency in town. The office even had a window. On the other hand, the bad news; the office was full of old computers, wires, UPS's (backup batteries), a giant copiers and other e-waste [...]
Fail Fast. Painful but progressive. One of the trending quotes these days is “Fail Fast”. It’s not new. Failing fast, picking yourself back up and correcting your path is what happens in the entrepreneur business. I’ve never met anyone that started out with a perfect model and achieved smooth sailing from day one. It doesn’t happen. [...]
20 Ways to Market Your Start Up with Little or No Money I was a serial entrepreneur before serial entrepreneurs were cool. I’ve been there. I am a serial entrepreneur from way back. My efforts in business failed more times than succeeded. Urban E Recycling is the most successful company I have co-founded in my lifetime. I [...]
I am reading the book The Human Brand, by Chis Malone and Susan T. Fiske. I had to underline the sentence, "Social Media aren't so much changing the rules of business as they are restoring those rules of their natural order of social accountability." I had to think about this statement. I'm still thinking as I'm [...]
I am in a group called CEO Roundtable. I love the group. It’s like an advisory board for our company. Mary Key facilitates the group. She’s good. We always have a printed agenda. We set goals and keep each other accountable to them. We take turns bringing issues to the table. Last Tuesday it was my [...]
