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 [...]
When you look up electronic recycling in Google or any other search engine, you find a few too many companies that claim to recycle your computer. Recycling electronics means very different things to different companies and people. Some companies recycle by wiping hard drives and repairing and reselling. Some recycle by taking a few valuable pieces out of [...]
We seem to all strive for a good credit rating. Of course, that makes common sense. A good credit score can get you lower mortgage rates, lower insurance rates, allow to borrow more money and sometimes enhance your chance of getting a better job. But good credit is sometimes annoying. I get tons of emails and [...]
The hacking, scamming and fraud are neverending. The article I read is not from a reliable source, so I won't quote it. But despite the unreliable source, it tells me something that is very possible and likely that goes on in the electronic recycling business. It just reaffirms that we run our business the right way. [...]
Electronic/Computer Recycling In Tampa Bay "Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else." Recycling is a key component of modern waste reduction and is the third component of the "Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle" waste hierarchy. Thus recycling aims at environmental sustainability by substituting raw material inputs into [...]
Cape May-Lewes ferry, MV Twin Capes (photo credit: DNREC by Sherilyn Lau Have you ever wondered what’s on the ocean floor? Or maybe you’ve thought about what type of home supports marine life such as sea whips and mussels? On the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, 26 miles due east of the Indian River Inlet in [...]