To Incubate or not to Incubate

ByBizMan

Marshall Goodman: Ex-administrator For USF Helping Collier County | TheLedger.com: This answers the age-old questions: To Incubate or NOT to incubate? A: Incubators definitely have advantages for cluster development and rapid business startup. But, that doesn’t assure that it is a great investment for that governments to jump into. Where do old business incubator guys go when they get old? A: They go to Collier County, of course. Think Naples and Big Cypress National Preserve….

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The energy we (US) use, and don't!

BySustainMe

WoW! This is the new energy charge for the US. Note that the new chart shows how much energy we waste as well as how much weed is! Far more goes to waste. And 2013 was the first year that energy consumption was up, since 2010. One benefit of a recession is that you produce less of a carbon footprint, and get more efficient. https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2014/Apr/NR-14-04-01.html#.VCOBhMcpDMK

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Green, But Mostly White: The Lack Of Diversity In Enviro Movement, 5 parts – JustMeans

BySustainMe

Green, But Mostly White: The Lack Of Diversity In The Environmental Movement, Part 1 of 5—Future 500 | Justmeans: There are 5 parts to this series. It’s talking about who is evolved int the Environmental movement, and why there isn’t more diversity. And why that is starting to change? This is a very interesting 5 part series by several authors. Part 1: http://www.justmeans.com/blogs/green-but-mostly-white-the-lack-of-diversity-in-the-environmental-movement-part-1 by Danna Pfahl Part 2: http://www.justmeans.com/blogs/green-but-mostly-white-the-lack-of-diversity-in-the-environmental-movement-part-2-of-5-future by Marvin Smith Part 3: http://www.justmeans.com/blogs/green-but-mostly-white-the-lack-of-diversity-in-the-environmental-movement-part-3-of-5 by Shilpi Chhatray…

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Intellectual Ventures: Patent Troll plans to Start actually making things, not breaking things.

ByBizMan

Intellectual Ventures: Patent Troll Funds Startups, New Products – Businessweek: The worlds largest patent troll, apparently, has decided to go legit. Kinda. This company, aptly abbreviated IV as in a vampire draining blood, is the largest holder of patents with some 70,000. More than IBM with more than 20 years as the world’s largest patenting company, by far. With such a war chest of patents, it is hard for anyone to make anything that doesn’t…

Sustainable Universities fall in two

BySustainMe

Sustainable Universities falls into to two schools (note the pun). 1) Those that have greener campuses in terms of reduced usage of resources and renewable resources. 2) Those that teach sustainability programs academically. Of course, doing both is entirely possible… and even highly synergistic. Here’s a few sources of Green campus and green(er) universities: Campus Ecology: http://www.nwf.org/campus-ecology.aspx Green Report Card: http://www.greenreportcard.org/ P&P’s Top Green Colleges & Us: http://peopleandplanet.org/greenleague People & Plant’s 2013 College Report: http://peopleandplanet.org/green-league-2013/tables Plus there has been some…

Building a Business Plan: The basic components video, and IP too.

ByBizMan

Building a Business Plan: The basic components – YouTube: “ Here’s the basics about a business plan by yours truly, Dr. Elmer Hall, President of Strategic Business Planning Company. We help develop the plans that every business needs(tm). “A business plan helps to plan out the future of the business and estimate its profitability. Also, as the company grows quickly it may outgrow itself. That is, you can fund the growth with profits, but if you…