Whatever your business, the fundamentals of growth are the same. This article was originally featured on Entrepreneur.com You’ve taken the plunge and started a new business. You made it through the first year and turned a profit – congratulations. When an entrepreneur takes an idea and turns it into a profitable business, it’s a cause for celebration. But it’s not enough… Read more →
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7 Ways Entrepreneurs Drive Economic Development
This article was recently featured on Huffingtonpost.com There’s been a lot of talk lately about the future of work. Much of the time, these conversations are fueled by the anxiety many of us share as we try to understand the impact new technologies will have on our industries. We tend to reduce these discussions to binary arguments — how smart machines… Read more →
The Connected City: Trends and Developments Driving Smart City Innovation
This article was originally posted on Huffingpost.com Human beings have ascended from barbarism into civilization in just 10 million years, thanks in large part to modern science and systems of governance. Urbanization is one of the results of our advancement, with cities representing our technological prowess and the rich culture our species has achieved over millennia. Cities throughout the world… Read more →
Good for the Heart, Good for the Community
Back in the dark ages, I rowed for part of my freshman year at Penn. The school had just won the national championship for heavyweight eights the prior year (the most prestigious race) and I walked on without knowing too much. Almost all of the other team members had been recruited from prestigious prep schools around the US, but I… Read more →
Promising Bitcoin Alternative Ether Could Power IoT
As you may know, bitcoin is an innovation that I find extremely intriguing. The cryptocurrency seems a natural monetary evolution after metal, paper, and plastic have had their years, with a model of decentralization becoming more appealing every day. But bitcoin is far from the only alternative currency out there, though it may be the most popular. One that is… Read more →
Exploring the Agreement: Paris
The Paris agreement, reached at this year’s United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as part of the Rainforest Alliance delegation to the COP21 U.N. climate summit, marks a turning point for the future of this planet. The agreement serves as a commencement of the metamorphosis that is taking place: shifting from the business-as-usual trajectory towards a sustainable global… Read more →
What Is The Future Of China-U.S. Relations?
I was asked this question on Quora and here is my response: The US and China are both large, great nations with patriotic populations. They will be “cooperative competitors” in the years to come. From the China side, there are clearly elements that wish to overtake the US as a world leader, others that want to have a robust China… Read more →
Technology, Healthcare and Energy or Having a Real Impact through Scalability
Innovation focused industries vary widely. Developing the next digital healthcare system has little in common with the next generation of wind power turbines. Social media entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley or New York speak a different language from biotechnology companies in Boston. However, the commonality between these varied areas is scalability: if you can reach a wide audience quickly, you will… Read more →
Oil and Gas Prices are Down. Still a Bright Future for Renewables.
Brent crude oil prices continue to hover around $57 and Henry Hub natural gas prices maintain at approximately $2.60. It is a good time to be a consumer of oil and gas, especially as summer nears. If you can purchase oil at such low prices, why invest in that solar rooftop or buy wind power from your utility? Despite these… Read more →
Five Innovations Leapfrogging the U.S.
The U.S. prides itself on being the source of the world’s greatest innovations. While this generally is true, we have become complacent and are at risk of being overtaken by increasingly unique innovation in other countries. The U.S. ranks number two in patents granted worldwide, just behind Japan, but China is rising quickly in the ranks. Historically, most innovation in… Read more →