Jennifer Kaplan, partner in Greenhance LLC and author of the valuable and very practical book Greening Your Small Business: How to Improve Your Bottom Line, Grow Your Brand, Satisfy Your Customers - and Save the Planet , took the time to answer a few questions about her book. She also described some of the emerging trends in environmental action taking place within many small business. She shared as...
Greening Your Small Business How to Improve Your Bottom Line, Grow Your Brand, Satisfy Your Customers - and Save the Planet By: Jennifer Kaplan Published: November 3, 2009 Format: Paperback, 320 pages ISBN 9780735204461 Publisher: Prentice Hall Press "Like millions of small business owners across America, you're asking yourself whether there is an economic advantage to going green", writes...
Today we bring you our weekly sampler of the cool youth media and marketing gigs you can expect to find on our Ypulse Jobs Board. If your company has an open position in the youth media or marketing space, we encourage you to post there. Post a job today and we'll feature ...
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kaplan University: WHAT: Kaplan University, a leading provider of online post-secondary education, kicks off its fourth Kaplan University Speakers Series webinar with Sonia Alleyne, editorial director and career expert for Black Enterprise magazine. The webinar, titled “Navigate Your Career Through Turbulent Times,” will provide Kaplan University students, alumni and...
Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner: Shoestring marketing for startups – Young companies typically don’t have the budget for a substantial marketing campaign, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. As you search for your niche and your company evolves, serial entrepreneur Scott Olson offers advice on the best ways to get a big marketing bang for...
Information on Study Materials and Classes for Series 79 Exam One of the inquires I receive most often about the Series 79 exam involves study materials. As of right now I have not heard of any groups who have produced a study guide or other materials for this exam. I know that both Kaplan and STC [...]
Fred Kaplan 's 1959: The Year That Changed Everything (John Wiley and Sons $27.95) chronicles an extraordinary year. On January 1st, Fidel Castro's revolutionaries took power in Cuba. On January 4th Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan visited the United States. Fidel would do the same on April 15th, followed by Khrushchev on September 15th. On April 9th, Lenny Bruce appeared on television. On March...
That should ensure I get some more hits! As you know I've been retraining, so I've assembled quite a few of those big scary IT books that, for some reason, are always a different squarer shape from normal books (i.e. the kind of leisure book that the workplace symbolically kills by making that joke about "bedtime reading"). Scott Lowe, Mastering VMware vSphere 4. Let's start with this, because...
WINCHESTER, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trex Company, Inc. (NYSE: TWP), the nation’s leading manufacturer and distributor of wood alternative decking, railing, fencing and trim, today announced that it has successfully refinanced its revolving credit facility. President and CEO Ron Kaplan commented, “The refinancing – which follows our redemption in September 2009 of the $25 million principal...
Platform wars are like monkey knife fights: amusing at first, but regrettable and messy in the end. You don’t see this very often, and it’s a shame: Jacob Kaplan-Moss, co-creator of Django, the Python-based MVC web application framework, wrote a great article titled Thank You, Rails. From the article’s opening paragraph: It’s fashionable, or perhaps inevitable, [...]
Former Portfolio top editor Kyle Pope has been picked to take over the reins of The New York Observer from interim editor Tom McGeveran , owner Jared Kushner announced yesterday . The announcement comes just a week after McGeveran announced that he would be stepping down from his post at the paper, which he as held since longtime editor Peter Kaplan left the pub in May. Pope will be starting at The...
The tricks to success change all the time, but the keys to failure are consistent. Serial entrepreneur Jerry Kaplan put together this list in a lecture in Stanford University’s entrepreneur thought leader speaker series in 2003 – but it’s as relevant today as it was then. Hubris, greed, lack of clarity and dumb hiring mistakes continue to be the biggest problems in the start-up world....
Greta and I did our undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago, or as a commonly-sold T-shirt on campus put it, "where fun goes to die." To say that Chicago didn't emphasize academics over a social life is to deny that people literally lived in the library (a full-scale campsite was found behind one of the stairwells in the stacks; students had been living there for months). It's...
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