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Decarbonizing the Already-Built Environment: Inside Carbon Reform’s Utility Partnership

Revolution

In tech and infrastructure, it’s easy to focus on what’s next: futuristic buildings, next-gen grids, communities built from scratch. You’ve built a climate tech company focused on retrofits, not new construction. Plus, retrofitting lets you work creatively within real-world constraints around budget, time, and space.

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17 Inspiring Recoveries: How Entrepreneurs Bounced Back from Crises

StartupNation

With support from peers and the incredible State of Search community, we fixed the issue, restructured the backend, and got things back on track. Shantell Moya , Business Owner, Roof Republic Market Shift Prompts Creative Real Estate Strategies We were in the midst of a bustling market when suddenly, the housing market began to shift.

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18 Inspirational Career Reinvention Journeys from Successful Entrepreneurs

StartupNation

We 10x’d our growth not through massive funding or flashy campaigns, but by staying deeply connected to our community and focusing relentlessly on what makes us different: ethical U.S.-based Together, as a community of entrepreneurs, we focus on holistic wellness and self-care as a necessity, not a luxury.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. 33 Flatbush. Picture: Benjamin Norman for The New York Times.

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Leading Leaders: 5 Insights from 5 Years with EO (that can help you, too)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Yet, as I mark five years leading the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) as its CEO, it’s a good time to reflect on five key insights gained from such a remarkable community of business founders. How can I help them grow as individuals, and help us grow as a community? It is a time that has tested many of us.

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Contact, a platform for creatives backed by Maisie Williams, raises $1.9M seed led by Founders Fund

TechCrunch

Creatives face late payments, and often opaque industry practices, even as top talent agencies have collectively achieved a valuation of $20 billion. It’s now looking to address the wider problems referred to above, with a new round of funding involving some key players in the creative industries. Contact has now raised a $1.9

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The Importance of The Narrative

Both Sides of the Table

I started off by running some lower-level roles like community service. Have a thesis from which to build your story – If you don’t start by knowing what the central point(s) you’re trying to make are then you can’t construct a storyline that supports them. Below are some separate thoughts.