tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-120828152024-03-07T12:14:43.211-06:00SustainableWorkThis site is about creating sustainable startups and growing emerging enterprises. It's about developing successful new products and innovating existing ones. Sustainable work means creating valuable solutions that fix real problems. Sustainable work means creating business processes that make you, your enterprise, and the world a better place. You can do it. Welcome.Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.comBlogger593125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-60813476628201519852021-12-19T22:03:00.000-06:002021-12-19T22:03:53.483-06:00Ageless Startup / CAE - reviews, interviews, podcasts, and articles - during the pandemic
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I am using this post to gather media links since the book was published. This is a sample of reviews, interviews, podcasts, and articles - during the pandemic
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<b>Ageless Startup: Start a Business at Any Age</b>.
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Rick Terrien
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Entrepreneur Press. April 2020. www.ageless-startup.com
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<b>The Center for Ageless Entrepreneurs</b>
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A peer-to-peer network for experienced entrepreneurs.
<br>Business driven. Non-profit managed.
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Co-founder. Executive Director.
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www.agelessentrepreneurs.org
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<b> REVIEWS:</b>
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<b>Carl Schramm, former president of the Kauffman Foundation: </b>
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"Entrepreneurship provides an exciting new career for millions of older Americans, one they would never have anticipated growing up in a world that presumed people’s work life would end at 65. Rick Terrien has provided a fabulous roadmap on how to approach this new chapter in life. His brilliant 'Ageless Startup' is a handbook for how to shape your future so your most rewarding work lies ahead — work that benefits you and makes a difference in the lives of countless others. <b>A must for career planning for anyone over forty!</b>”
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Carl Schramm, former president of the Kauffman Foundation, author of Burn the Business Plan, serial entrepreneur, active venture investor, and University Professor at Syracuse.
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<b>AARP:</b>
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“The book provides a roadmap to kick starting an entrepreneurial journey at any age. It offers tips and insight into entrepreneurship and contains interviews with past Purpose Prize Winners and Fellows. The book embodies the core mission of the Purpose Prize."
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"Rick Terrien is a 2015 Purpose Prize Fellow and an entrepreneur repeatedly recognized for innovation excellence. He spent his career building creative business solutions to address societal problems. He received the 'Fast 50 Award' from Fast Company, the United States Small Business New Product of the Year Award. And now, he can add ‘author’ to his list of accomplishments."
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<b>Media: Podcasts, articles, and interviews</b>
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<b>Upcoming:</b>
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Dec, 2021 Book Chapter: Models for Regenerative Sustainability - Rick Terrien.
Starting Up Smarter: Why Founders Over 50 Build Better Companies
Dr. Mary Cronin, Boston College
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Dec 3, 2021 Podcast interview – Grow Money - Business Podcast
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Dec 9, 2021 Presentation – Stanford Longevity Center Annual Century Summit: Ageless Entrepreneurship in New Economy, Stanford University
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Dec 17, 2021 Podcast interview – All About You. (Valencia, Spain)
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<b>Not yet published:</b>
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Nov 29, ,2021 Podcast interview – No Labels.
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<b>Published:</b>
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Nov 18, 2021 Live interview – The Pirate Syndicate: Ageless Startup – Rick Terrien
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-yb3Jh9Sjs
Audio: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/catch-rick-terrien-on-the-piratebroadcast/id1488373670?i=1000542358315
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Oct 21, 2021 Human Capital Innovations: Why the Narrative about Older Workers Is Upside
Down with Rick Terrien.
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL36Aw1-0I4
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Oct 26, 2021 Embark on Your Third Act: Ageless Startup – Rick Terrien
Audio: https://lizsolar.com/embark-podcast/
Scroll to Fall 2021. My interview starts ~ 11:20
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Oct 14, 2021 Third Act Quest – Live Storytelling: Ageless Startup – Rick Terrien
Not yet posted
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Oct 7, 2021 Interstellar Business Show – The Enormous Overlooked Talent Pool: Talent
Opportunity of Biz Veterans – Rick Terrien --- Podcast: https://interstellarway.life/podcast/0016-talent-shortage-undervalued-biz-veterans-solution/
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Sept 28, 2021 ValueVerse: Start Your Real Career – Ageless Startup – Rick Terrien
Podcast: https://valueverse.podbean.com/e/start-your-real-dream/
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July 20, 2021 Clarity and Purpose: Your Entrepreneurial Journey at Any Age – Rick Terrien
Podcast: https://bit.ly/2UQhZix
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June 25, 2021 Coffee, Lunch, Beer: The Ageless Entrepreneur – Rick Terrien
Podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeelunchbeer/episodes/The-Ageless-Entrepreneur---Rick-Terrien-e13e05v
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June 21, 2021 Entrepreneurs Over 40 – Rick Terrien
Podcast: https://entreprenuersover40.podbean.com/e/entrepreneurs-over-40-episode-6-with-rick-terrien/
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June 4, 2021 Money On My Mind: Mastering The Ageless Startup with Rick Terrien
(Muscat, Oman)
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/mastering-ageless-startup-rick-terrien-money-on-my/id1534155222?i=1000524122645
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5mbwUkjEEErnoeook25YVn
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May 11, 2021 B++. Entrepreneurship with Abhii Dabas (Singapore)
Podcast: Not yet posted
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Apr 2, 2021 Kickass Boomers: Now Is Your Time to Take Action – Rick Terrien
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5mbwUkjEEErnoeook25YVn
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Mar 26, 2021 Webinar presentation – Bloom. (Canada)
Webinar: https://admin-at-hellobloomers.wistia.com/medias/ho9any4qkd
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Feb 23, 2021 Webinar presentation – Founders Over 55
Webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_mZOpoUiEg&t=38s
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Oct 12, 2020 Review – Skip Prichard. Ageless Startup: Start an enterprise that represents
your values, your goals, and your legacy.
Review: https://www.skipprichard.com/start-a-business-at-any-age/
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Sept 18, 2021 Callum Connects: A peer-to-peer business development network for people
in the second half of life.
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIskIn83uGE
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Aug 20, 2020 Exit Coach Radio: Exploring Entrepreneurship in the Second Half of Life with
Rick Terrien
Podcast: https://exitcoach.podbean.com/e/rick-terrien/
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Aug 12, 2020 The Podcast with Cameron Tousi – Covid-19 to Decimate Employment for 45
to 64 Year-Olds. Answer: Entrepreneurship – with Rick Terrien
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjCj7k9UqGc
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Aug 3, 2020 Unobatanium with Oz Kahn. How Do You Achieve A business Startup at Any
Age? With Rick Terrien
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rick-terrien-on-achieving-ageless-startup-entrepreneurship/id1508403348?i=1000486995836
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July 19, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. Author CV at Entrepreneur.
Link: https://www.entrepreneur.com/author/rick-terrien
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July 16, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. Transitioning Older Workers Into New Opportunities
Doesn't Have to Be Hard. Rick Terrien.
Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/352880
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July 13, 2020 The Author Inside You: Working With a Professional Publisher – Rick Terrien.
(Most downloaded interview of the year)
Podcast: https://www.theauthorinsideyou.com/show-notes/working-with-a-professional-publisher
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July 9, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. Older Entrepreneurs Should Embrace Working From
Home. Rick Terrien.
Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/352936
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June 23, 2020 CT Expert Insights. It’s Never Too Late to Start Your Business – Rick Terrien
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6hawbj4MT0UwKO2LY4XKEc
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June 2020 Inc. Magazine. Why Now Is the Time to Have a Second Career as an Entrepreneur
Article: https://www.inc.com/martin-zwilling/why-now-is-time-to-have-a-second-career-as-an-entrepreneur.html
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June 12, 2020 School for Startups Radio – Ageless Startup: Start a Business at Any Age – Rick
Terrien
Podcast: https://schoolforstartupsradio.com/2020/06/start-business-at-any-age/
Audio: http://cdn1.cyberears.com/33957.mp3
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June 4, 2012 Entrepreneur Magazine. Market Optimization Is the Way to Boost Your Late-
Career Startup – Rick Terrien
Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/351365
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May 29, 2020 Market Watch – This entrepreneur says you’re never too old to launch your
own startup, even in this economy: How to bootstrap a new business in
midlife or in retirement – even in a pandemic.
Article: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-entrepreneur-says-youre-never-too-old-to-launch-your-own-startup-even-in-this-economy-2020-05-28
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May 27, 2020 Strategy Driven: Older Workers – An Opportunity Created from Danger – Rick
Terrien
Article: https://www.strategydriven.com/2020/05/27/older-workers-an-opportunity-created-from-danger/
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May 27, 2020 Boomer Bloomer – Real Wisdom people can learn and earn by." "A visionary
and award-winning writer." – Rick Terrien.
Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=3224913821066079&ref=watch_permalink
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May 26, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. It's Never Too Late: How to Start Your Own Business
at Any Age – Rick Terrien
Webinar: https://ageless-startup.blogspot.com/2020/05/ageless-startup-free-webinar-this.html
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May 23, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. Older Workers Must Be Proactive About Their
Future – Rick Terrien
Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/350825
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May 20, 2020 Forbes. Advice For Ageless Startups, Even in A Pandemic. How to bootstrap a
business in midlife or in retirement. – Rick Terrien.
Article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2020/05/20/advice-for-ageless-startups-even-in-a-pandemic/?sh=702731907b31
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May 20, 2020 Next Avenue. People think it’s scary to start a business. In my opinion, it’s
much scarier NOT to start your own business.
Article: https://www.nextavenue.org/ageless-startups/
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May 12, 2020 Succession Stories. Ageless Startup: Next generation Entrepreneurship
Rick Terrien
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/05-ageless-startup-author-rick-terrien/id1507050698?i=1000474319361
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May 12, 2020 The Feed (Canada) – Ageless Startup: Start a Business at Any Age –
Rick Terrien.
Podcast: https://ambermac.com/thefeed-nasa-virtual-hackathon-ageless-startup-contact-tracing-apps/
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May 11, 2020 Live radio Interview – Mary Jane Pop. KAHI Radio, Sacramento, CA –
Rick Terrien.
Interview: https://ageless-startup.blogspot.com/2020/05/interview-monday-may-11-poppoff-with.html
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May 5, 2020 Live radio Interview – Doug Wagner. WMT Radio. Cedar Rapids, IA.
Interview: https://ageless-startup.blogspot.com/2020/05/radio-interview-with-wmt-in-cedar.html
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April 30, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. The 3-Step Strategy to Help You Determine Your
Business Mission, Values, and Goals. Rick Terrien.
Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/347161
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April 16, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. The 2 Systems You Need to Set Up for Startup
Success. One involves people; the other, finances. But both are essential to
run your business effectively. Rick Terrien.
Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/347159
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April 9, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. Laying the Groundwork for Your Ageless Startup.
Find out what first steps you need to take to maximize potential. Rick Terrien
Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/347158
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April 2, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. Starting a Business That People Need. Businesses
succeed by solving real problems. Here's how to determine what problems
you can solve to make your new business a success. Rick Terrien.
Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/347157
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Mar 26, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. 26 Questions to Help You Decide If a Late-in-Life
Business Is Right for You. Rick Terrien
Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/346439
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Mar 21 2020 Association Now – Running a New Organization? Take it Slow. – Ageless
Startup: Start a Business at Any Age.
Article: https://associationsnow.com/2020/03/daily-buzz-running-a-new-organization-take-it-slow/?fbclid=IwAR2sXPxPJjfDCSD-FS9lbCPTazH4kLF6ZV8iYIZ9Pr7AXxyw2DKaAgocXD4
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Mar 19, 2020 Interview with EntreEd: The National Consortium for Entrepreneurship
Education: Starting a Business at Any Age – Rick Terrien
Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b4df4bzEZg
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Mar 12, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. The 3-Step Startup Journey. Get each of these steps
right, and you just might have a successful business on your hands.
Rick Terrien.
Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/346438
Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-55129889684534675202021-12-19T21:11:00.000-06:002021-12-19T21:11:01.772-06:00Connecting to the Center for Ageless Entrepreneurs / CAE<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirORWhB3JNtynadj67XuXFdS4hPN-X5FiBFN8i9sk6-acoLrldSxgb44_If2UGANuNJigjlIS_NAZFxp5tPtf7dAPpusuACf4Lr6nkuUT0OtqmxgL93WnoYdDkByzqYXqdS6I3lzwpMdiErs9NI6EZsqeEHMdGCEFHeUOh1QFvmQtZotqXUg=s907" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="907" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirORWhB3JNtynadj67XuXFdS4hPN-X5FiBFN8i9sk6-acoLrldSxgb44_If2UGANuNJigjlIS_NAZFxp5tPtf7dAPpusuACf4Lr6nkuUT0OtqmxgL93WnoYdDkByzqYXqdS6I3lzwpMdiErs9NI6EZsqeEHMdGCEFHeUOh1QFvmQtZotqXUg=w400-h219" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>I'm helping launch the Center for Ageless Entrepreneurs / CAE, with my cofounder Dr. John Golden. </p><p>The mission of the CAE is to support entrepreneurs in the second half of life. We are business driven and nonprofit managed. Our model is peer-to-peer. </p><p>We are just opening up. I'm looking forward to what we can build together. </p><p><br /></p>Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-11313487010327503162021-12-19T19:43:00.001-06:002021-12-19T19:44:54.123-06:00Reconnecting SustainableWork<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_p0AJGnsOrvY_icQrWqL6pxK1BR2X9ZPMOhOI61JpXK73dMaCXU-3FWM46nYT84dMFYGfMEKMiUqzMnGnu-AQGiDDlHiPZBpbjNMAwKYfm72ZrI1BjY3yZ88MR8d-aFTmcU8THGh4Kbrl_Pa76LxZ5pYRLJICzKz5T3iTFU_2HZfRUVfhmA=s1346" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1346" data-original-width="893" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_p0AJGnsOrvY_icQrWqL6pxK1BR2X9ZPMOhOI61JpXK73dMaCXU-3FWM46nYT84dMFYGfMEKMiUqzMnGnu-AQGiDDlHiPZBpbjNMAwKYfm72ZrI1BjY3yZ88MR8d-aFTmcU8THGh4Kbrl_Pa76LxZ5pYRLJICzKz5T3iTFU_2HZfRUVfhmA=w265-h400" width="265" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Greetings once again. <div><br /></div><div>What a vital time to apply sustainable work to the problems in the world.<div><br /></div><div>Since I last posted, my book was published. </div><div><br /></div><div>The book is called <b><i>Ageless Startup. Start a Business at Any Age</i></b>. I'll link the book at the end. It earned some wonderful testimonials. Interviews with other ageless entrepreneurs throughout the book inspire me. I got to focus on big picture ideas as well as including 'to do' lists. I had a great editor and publisher.</div><div><br /></div><div>This book emerged directly from this blog. </div><div><br /></div><div>I'm very proud of this book. It was released in April of 2020 - just as the pandemic emerged globally. </div><div><br /></div><div>I've also helped co-found the Center for Ageless Entrepreneurs, a 5001c3 non-profit building the infrastructure ageless entrepreneurs need to grow. I'll save that for a separate post.</div><div><br /></div><div>April 2022 will be the 17th anniversary of this SustainableWork blog. </div><div><br /></div><div>I'm looking forward to posting here as time allows. Let's see what comes next!</div><div><br /></div><div>### </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://ageless-startup.com/" target="_blank"><b>Web site</b> for <i>Ageless Startup. Start a Business at Any Age</i> </a> </div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ageless-Startup-Start-Grow-Business/dp/1599186632" target="_blank">Amazon site</a></b> for <i>Ageless Startup.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>Our new <b><a href="https://www.agelessentrepreneurs.org/" target="_blank">Center for Ageless Entrepreneurs</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>-- Rick Terrien, 12-2021</div><div><br /></div></div>Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-35191290852727982472018-06-27T11:54:00.002-05:002018-06-27T14:34:55.479-05:00Silicon Valley's ideal entrepreneur is about 20 years too young, research shows <span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a powerful new study about entrepreneurship with great implications for the economy and those of us in the second half of life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="color: #424858;">A new study found the
average founder of the fastest growing tech startups was about 45-years-old —
and 50-year-old entrepreneurs were about twice as likely to have a runaway
business success as their 30-year-old counterparts."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #424858;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424858;">The new study by Jones, Javier Miranda of the U.S. Census Bureau
and MIT's Pierre Azoulay and J. Daniel Kim, looked at an expansive dataset and
found the most successful entrepreneurs are middle-aged.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424858;">"Take David Duffield, who founded Workday in 2005 at the ripe age of 65. Workday went public in 2012 and today has a $26.47 billion market cap. Whereas younger founders may benefit from their creative thinking and lesser degree of entrenchment in an industry, the exact opposite qualities work to the benefit of their older counterparts."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #424858;">"Older entrepreneurs have had years to build
their business, leadership, and problem-solving skills, as well as to
accumulate the social and financial capital needed to get a startup off the
ground. Jones also points out that even companies like Apple and Microsoft </span><span style="color: #424858;">that were founded by exceptional young
entrepreneurs didn't achieve their most rapid market capitalization growth
until later, when their founders were older. The iPhone entered the market when
Steve Jobs was in his 50s"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #424858;"><br /></span><span style="color: #424858;">There are almost endless opportunities for older entrepreneurs to meet business and community challenges with inn</span></span><span style="color: #424858; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">ovative entrepreneurial solutions. Take hold of this option. Give yourself permission to explore, then plan, then take action. The world needs you, and the challenge will make you stronger.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #424858;"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/26/research-shows-older-entrepreneurs-more-successful.html" target="_blank"><b>Link the CNBC article quoted above</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-28295339266995620992018-06-24T15:55:00.001-05:002018-06-24T15:55:48.083-05:00Endeavor. To exert oneself. To strive.<br />
Endeavor is an old word with great possibilities. <br />
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Its current meaning as a verb means 'to exert oneself to do or effect something; make an effort; strive'. As a noun in means 'a strenuous effort; attempt.'<br />
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When you are starting a new enterprise, you are launching an endeavor. You are making an effort. You are striving. <br />
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If you are looking for permission to consider entrepreneurship, if you are looking to plan or to expand your own business, don't look for external rewards.<br />
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Look to yourself. Strive to do change the world in small and large ways. Increase your focus. Do the little things with meaning and effort. There is no better path to making progress.<br />
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Endeavor. Strive. You'll build the strengths you need as you go forward. <br />
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Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-86769164555744259322018-04-12T10:20:00.002-05:002018-04-12T10:30:10.638-05:00Tom Waits quote. Explaining about not having a 'normal' job. If you think you need to follow a prescribed career path, you've missed the train. The world no longer works like that.<br />
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As this blog shifts over to writing with intention about the opportunities for those of us in the second half of life, it is especially relevant that we give up fixed expectations. We need to go with what we have. We need to make opportunities out of every hand we've been dealt.<br />
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So, a parable from Tom Waits. Consider this when you are choosing options that don't fit molds that other people want to put you in...<br />
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Tom Waits:<br />
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My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. 'Why don't you have a straight job like everybody else?' they asked me the other day.<br />
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I told them this story:<br />
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"In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me... I'm straight, and I'm tall, and I'm handsome. Look at you... You're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you! And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said just cut the straight trees and leave the rest. So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing strong and stranger!"<br />
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Today is the 13th anniversary of this Sustainable Work blog. Growing stronger and stranger. Thanks to all the great visitors over the years. I look forward to sharing many more with you all.Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-85510061152695139532018-04-07T19:29:00.000-05:002018-04-08T16:29:08.196-05:00Sustainable Work blog anniversary coming up. 13 years and growing!The thirteenth anniversary of this Sustainable Work blog is coming up this week.<br />
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I've been neck deep in startup work for the last year or so. It's time to catch up with the story and the goals I set up at the start of all this.<br />
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This is a moment in history when we need a revolution in entrepreneurial thinking. Major parts of the conversation about entrepreneurship have been taken over by big money and academics. There is a place for all that, but it leaves out the thousands of years of history that real people have been motivated to fix a problem, and small enterprises grow out of their solutions.<br />
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People can act entrepreneurially within their existing gigs, and we can also begin to plan and launch small community-oriented enterprises to fix the broken stuff all around us.<br />
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I'm reposting the original blog post from Sustainable Work below. Thirteen years this week and I still feel just as passionately about the work that needs to be done.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hi;<br />
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I'm glad you've found you're way here. Welcome!<br />
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I've got this idea that I'd like to start a million more small, sustainable
enterprises. However, I'm 50 something and I have a perfectly wonderful 90 hour
a week job now. So I'm just going to have to talk about it here in my spare
time. Hopefully I can help other people along this path. Can we get to a
million new small enterprises? Come on along. Let's try. I look forward to
sharing this site with you.<br />
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All the best,<br />
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http://blog.sustainablework.com/2005/04/what-im-trying-to-do.htmlRick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-7832035120440261432017-02-26T14:09:00.002-06:002017-02-26T14:09:49.489-06:00Opportunities in the midst of accelerating change<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Everything is getting faster.<br />
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Everything is getting crazier.<br />
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Many people say that everything in our lives needs to get radically reordered to keep up.<br />
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I don't think so. I think that old school values matter increasingly.<br />
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In 1965 Intel co-founder Gordon Moore published an idea that has become know over the decades as Moore's law Moore extrapolated that computing would dramatically increase in power, and decrease in relative cost, at an exponential pace. <br />
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You can't match wits with Moore's law. We can stay ahead of it by leveraging the oldest of pass times - conversation, unexpected collaborations, and building networks. <br />
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This is a good quote from Thomas L. Friedman's new book 'Thank You for Being Late':<br />
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"If you took Intel's first-generation microchip from 1971, the 4004, and the latest chip that Intel has on the market today, the sixth-generation Intel core processor, you will see that Intel's latest chip offers 3,500 times more performance, is 90,000 times more efficient, and is about 60,000 times lower in cost.<br />
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To put it more vividly, Intel engineers did a rough calculation of what would happen had a 1971 Volkswagen Beetle improved at the same rate as microchips did under Moore's law.<br />
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These are the numbers: Today, the Beetle would be able to go about three hundred thousand miles per hour. It would get two million miles per gallon of gas, and it would cost four cents!"<br />
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Our computational skills haven't matched Moore's law exponential growth for decades. <br />
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However, for those willing to ride the bronco, our people skills can. And we can do it through the oldest of mediums. Conversations. A willingness to understand and consider. A penchant for building new networks.<br />
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Are things getting faster? Yes.<br />
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Are things getting crazier? Only if you let them.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/thank-you-for-being-late/" target="_blank">Thomas Friedman's book 'Thank You for Being Late'</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law" target="_blank">Moore's law</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Screech-Owl/id" target="_blank">Eastern Screech Owl</a>. Wisconsin, late winter, 2017,Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-42719794248102461622017-02-11T18:17:00.001-06:002017-02-11T18:19:50.130-06:00Persistence overcomes resistance. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Adam Steltzner led the Entry, Descent and Landing team in landing the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This quote is from his book, 'The Right Kind of Crazy', a great book about breakthrough innovation in the face of the impossible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"There comes a moment in every creative or innovative process when you're not only lost; you're not even sure where to find a map. Spending time in this Dark Room is terrifying, but there is no easy way out. You have to stay calm, to hold on to the doubt, listen to the problem, and keep thinking of solutions while avoiding the mind-locking panic that you won't find one in time. We were in the Dark Room and the only way out was persistence."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Persistence can overcome a lot of unknowns. When you persist, the problems you need to know about show themselves, rather than waiting to grab you as you go by. It's always best to meet problems on your own terms rather than waiting to wander into them unprepared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Problem solving requires a strong heart, a calm demeanor, and diverse skills you can mix and match on the fly. The problems you'll face typically get more daunting the closer you get to your goals. This is especially true for innovators, artists and entrepreneurs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As Steven Pressfield says so eloquently in the War of Art, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">"The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">"That's a law of nature. Where there is a Dream, there is Resistance. Thus, when we encounter Resistance, somewhere nearby there is a Dream."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Adam Steltzner and his team delivered the Curiosity Rover to Mars with perfect landing almost 5 years ago. Just prior they were stuck and terrified with no easy ways out.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">We all face those moments. Dreams are nearby.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: inherit;"><b>Persistence overcomes resistance. </b></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.stevenpressfield.com/the-war-of-art/" target="_blank">The War of Art. Steven Pressfield</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Purple_Gallinule/id" target="_blank">Purple Gallinule</a> (photo). Mauston, WI, 2017.<br />
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<br />Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-22404708019273852292017-01-29T19:08:00.000-06:002017-01-29T19:08:23.317-06:00How We Dream Up Things That Change the World - Make the Tools That Fix the Problem<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm reading a good book called 'INVENTology. How We Dream Up Things That Change the World', by Pagan Kennedy.<br />
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Ms. Kennedy, former innovation columnist for the New York Times, advances the idea of a 'Lead User' and how people in that role - all of us looking to solve a problem - can infer world changing solutions no one has yet seen.<br />
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The term Lead User was first coined in the 1970s by economist Eric Von Hipple as a name for people who struggle with problems for which no off-the-shelf solution is available. Along the way he became a Lead User himself, as the inventor of a solution people needed for a specific problem that few even recognized. In the end there were many, and various problems his solution solved. <br />
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When Von Hippel later switched carreers and became a researcher he was struck by the question: Who <i>really</i> dreams up breakthrough ideas? <br />
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First he identified about 100 scientific instruments that had made a significant impact and then dug in. "He learned that about 80 percent of the scientific instrument products had begun with someone who needed the tool." <br />
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This is the lesson my engineer/inventor Dad taught me: if you want to make a real impact you design the tool that makes the tool that makes the product. That is, you get into the problem deeply enough to personally understand what's needed to make the tools that help solve those problems.<br />
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Here is the author's summary of this phase: "Of course, only certain types of problems are valuable. Ideally you would want to suffer from a frustration that is rare now (so that no one else knows about it) but that one day will bother lots of people. 'Lead Users are familiar with the conditions which lie in the future for most others', Von Hippel wrote, and so 'they can serve as a need-forecasting laboratory.'" <br />
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This is my take away. The world has problems. Our job is to understand what's needed next and invent tools to help get us through what's coming.<br />
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<b>Seems about right.</b>Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-51606498038063846812017-01-20T23:11:00.000-06:002017-01-21T11:40:19.211-06:00Welcome back. Buckle up. <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Welcome back. </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I've taken about a year off from this blog to launch a new business. That work is well underway and it's time to get back to writing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">It looks like a promising way to leverage entrepreneurship in support of non-profit needs and goals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>In my first post back in 2005, I said I wanted to help launch a million new small businesses. I still do, now more than ever.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Ring-necked Pheasant, male. January 2017, Middleton, WI. Rick Terrien. </span><br />
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Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-79238039615317174792015-12-11T20:54:00.000-06:002015-12-11T21:01:27.610-06:00Inspiring Purpose Prize leaders. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In 2015 I was fortunate to be honored as a Purpose Prize Fellow.<br />
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The Templeton Foundation, a major supporter of the Purpose Prize, just published a great report about this year's prize winners. It's an inspiring group that I'm very proud to be associated with.<br />
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From a remote corner of Alaska to Harlem, from micro lending to the arts, these 'encore career' leaders are demonstrating beautifully the many ways that age and experience can help solve intractable problems.<br />
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The world needs 'encore' contributors. To a person, we're all doing this to help create a better world for the next generations.<br />
<b><br /></b><b>It's an honor to be sprinting along with this group.</b><br />
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<a href="http://templetonreport.org/intergenerational-inspiration-marks-10th-year-of-the-purpose-prize/" target="_blank">Intergenerational Inspiration Marks 10th Year of The Purpose Prize.</a> Templeton Report. Dec. 10, 2015.<br />
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<a href="https://encore.org/purpose-prize/rick-terrien" target="_blank">My Purpose Prize fellowship.</a></div>
Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-64190895627902652402015-12-03T22:33:00.000-06:002015-12-06T00:26:18.027-06:00My Kiva report. Thanksgiving 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />Kiva.org is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />As of Thanksgiving 2015 I've made 108 loans to entrepreneurs in 69 different countries. 73% female. 27% male.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />I've supported 7 of KIVA's 7 markers for social performance.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />The business model is called a revolving loan. You make the loan on your terms and when you get paid back you get to loan it out again. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />The interest you make is paid in gratification for being able to help your global peers build a better world.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />As Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus said: "A charity dollar has only one life; a social business dollar can be invested over and over again."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-11944641435586295372015-11-25T21:42:00.002-06:002015-11-25T23:14:06.813-06:00Thankful. Purpose Prize Fellow 2015<div>
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I am profoundly grateful that the work we are doing is being recognized.</div>
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I've just been included in a group of remarkable people creating inspiring new careers as a Purpose Prize Fellow.</div>
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Thank you!</div>
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From the Purpose Prize / Encore.org web site:</div>
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"Encore.org is building a movement to tap the skills and experience of people in midlife and beyond to improve communities and the world.</div>
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<b>Our ultimate goal is to create a better future for young people and future generations.</b>"</div>
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Everyone I work with, especially my co-workers with disabilities at the Wisconsin Innovation Kitchen, is grateful for this recognition.</div>
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<a href="https://encore.org/purpose-prize/rick-terrien" target="_blank">Link to my Purpose Prize Fellowship information</a></div>
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<a href="http://encore.org/" target="_blank">Thank You! Encore.org </a><br />
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Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-29698195544677098782015-10-30T11:36:00.000-05:002015-10-30T11:36:17.499-05:00Author Marlon James - a huge win after 78 rejections.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You want real entrepreneurship?<br />
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Get closer to what artists and scientists do:<br />
- Dream.<br />
- Test.<br />
- Persevere.<br />
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Jamaican author Marlon James says he nearly gave up writing after his first novel, John Crow's Devil, was rejected 78 times by publishers. He was recently awarded the Booker Prize, a literary award given each year for the best original novel, written in the English language, and published in the UK.<br />
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This recognition came within a close shave with disaster . He had to retrieve the only remaining copy from an old email outbox.<br />
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Mr James dreamed and tested his story. He persevered. Over and over.<br />
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"'<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px;">There was a time I actually thought I was writing the kind of stories people didn’t want to read,' he told Today. Asked if he had considered giving up writing, the 44-year-old writer said: 'I did give it up. I actually destroyed the manuscript, I even went on my friends computers and erased it.' He said he retrieved the text by searching in the email outbox of an old iMac computer."</span><br />
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<b>Entrepreneurs should look to artists and scientists for their inspiration:</b><br />
<b>Dream. </b><br />
<b>Test. </b><br />
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<b>Repeat.</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/14/man-booker-prize-marlon-james-debut-novel-rejected-nearly-80-times" target="_blank">Booker Prize winner's debut novel rejected nearly 80 times</a><br />
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Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-74250625441462829372015-09-28T19:26:00.003-05:002015-09-28T19:26:45.560-05:00"The Future of Food is Food"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Steve Case is an important investor and entrepreneur (AOL). He recently wrote a good article called "The Future of Food is Food"<br />
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There are so many people touting goofy food trends that it's hard to keep up. What Mr. Case brings us back to is the fact that someone has to grow real food and someone has to prepare it.<br />
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This is not manufacturing. This is not an app. This is not counting users. This is food. Part way through the quote below Mr. Case asks if Google would be serving powdered food and drinks to its employees. I don't think so.<br />
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The world needs small, regionally based production kitchens that can capture, stabilize and move to market the millions and millions of pounds of food that are wasted every year during the harvest. There is just no way to save it without minimal processing and a way to store it for year-round use on a commercial scale.<br />
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That's what our friends at the Wisconsin Innovation Kitchen do. They take real food from real family farms in the Upper Midwest and turn it into delicious ingredients for year-round use on menus across the region.<br />
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They also take treasured recipes - and exciting new ones - and turn them into real food products and brands that food entrepreneurs can build careers on. Nothing being made into 22nd century food powders.<br />
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Sure there will always be new ways of growing food and certainly new ways will arise to store and preserve it, but those efforts will be in support of real food not 'food like substances'. That's what they do at the Wisconsin Innovation Kitchen.<br />
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Astronauts may have started out drinking Tang, but now they're growing leafy greens on the International Space Station.<br />
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<b>Here are a few excerpts from the Future of Food is Food (link below)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Or let’s take Google. Google’s culture thrives on collaboration, which includes a buzzing and healthy in-house dining experience for everyone to mingle and relax. I doubt Google would dream of firing their chefs and replacing their buffet with powdered drinks."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"In fact, some of the best ideas I have ever been part of have come over a shared meal. I remember having sushi with Steve Jobs when he was outlining his vision for the iPod, and being moved by a conversation I had with Nelson Mandela in his home after lunch about the rise of Africa. And not a week goes by when I’m not inspired by an up-and-coming entrepreneur, sharing his or her vision for a better world as we break bread."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Sure, there will be some that prefer powder over real food, and more time in front of a computer over more time with loved ones. Indeed, one advocate of powder over food recently told the New York Times, “I think engineers are ready to throw in the towel on the illusion that we’re having this family dinner … Let’s do away with all the marketing facade and get the calories as quickly as we can.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"That is sad. That is not what Silicon Valley disruption is about. What are we innovating for, who are we building the future for, if we don’t value human connection?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"In my opinion, Michael Pollan had it right when he urged us all to eat 'real food,' avoid 'edible food-like substances' — and 'don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.'"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Sometimes revolutions take us forward by taking us back."</span></div>
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<b>Amen. You should check into <a href="http://www.innovationkitchen.org/" target="_blank">Innovation Kitchens</a>. </b><br />
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<a href="http://recode.net/2015/06/08/the-future-of-food-is-food/" target="_blank">The Future of Food is Food. </a> By Steve Case.<br />
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<br />Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-36141486671558259162015-09-22T21:19:00.000-05:002015-09-25T17:55:00.324-05:00My 100th Kiva loan to global entrepreneurs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This weekend I made my 100th micro-loan through Kiva.org </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's a good feeling to be able to support entrepreneurs globally. It's especially nice when Kiva makes it so easy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My portfolio after 100 loans:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">73% female. 27% male.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">About 95% related to agriculture and food entrepreneurship. Kiva has a 98.59% repayment rate. Kiva currently has about 1,341,049 individual lenders who have made about $759,301,075 in loans globally.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm proud to be part of this story. I've included a link at the end if you'd like to learn more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is the story behind my 100th Kiva loan (photo). This story lured me in because it mirrors the effort we're making at the Wisconsin Innovation Kitchen to improve food preparation efficiencies while creating valuable jobs for co-workers with disabilities:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">"The 'Cristo el salvador' communal bank is made
up of 5 responsible women who want to get ahead in life. In the new cycle the
group is represented by Vilma, who is 50, single and has 4 children, 1 of whom
still depends on her. She has a business selling all types of food that she
prepares for her customers herself with a lot of hard work. That is why she
will use the loan to buy an renew her utensils, such as pots, stirring spoons,
plates and cutlery she needs to be able to serve and sell better. This is how
Vilma generates her own income with a lot of hard work and dedication, to offer
her son a better quality of life. In future, she plans on doing buffets for all
types of events, because she is the best at that. In the group photo, Vilma is
standing among the other members, who are seated."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Albania</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Armenia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Azerbaijan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Benin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bolivia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Burkina Faso</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Burundi</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cambodia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Chile</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">China</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Columbia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Congo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Congo – DRC – Democratic Republic of Congo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Costa Rica</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dominican Republic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ecuador</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Georgia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ghana</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Guatamala</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Iraq</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jordan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kyrgyzstan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lebanon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yemen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Zambia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Zimbabwe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Don't wait for top down solutions to problems that can be solved at the person-to-person level. I invite you to join this adventure in support of our global peers:</span><br />
http://www.kiva.org/invitedby/rick7473<br />
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Thanks Kiva!</div>
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<br />Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-74189030820652363172015-09-06T22:11:00.001-05:002015-09-06T22:11:29.128-05:00"Innovation Kitchens is on the forefront of the eat local movement."<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Great to see the shout-out for our business in the new Willy Street Co-op Reader. In the Upper Midwest we're being cited as a possible food supply solution to the California drought. Creating regional food processing systems to diversify the risks involved in California-centric models seems smart to me.<br />
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But what about the glut of locally grown summer produce?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Minnick said an exciting new partnership between the Co-op and a local venture might help Owners take advantage of that surplus and more throughout the winter.</div>
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Willy Street Co-op is in the beginning stages of what could become a very cool partnership that would bring Wisconsin’s summer produce to the Co-op’s shelves and freezers throughout the winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Located less than 60 miles southwest of Madison in Mineral Point, Innovation Kitchens is on the forefront of the eat local movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The commercial kitchen offers light processing that stabilizes produce – via freezing, canning and pickling – which Minnick said will provide another avenue for Owners to minimize their winter dependence on California produce.</div>
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The partnership actually began in 2014 when all of the Co-op’s pumpkin pies were baked with local pumpkins pureed at Innovation Kitchens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year, the partnership will bring locally grown broccoli to the Co-op’s freezers after it is prepared and frozen at the Mineral Point facility.</div>
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<a href="https://www.willystreet.coop/reader/september-2015/california-drought" target="_blank">California Drought.</a> Full article in the Willy Street Co-op Reader.</div>
Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-52990326434087942092015-08-23T14:52:00.000-05:002015-08-23T14:52:14.648-05:00Edible Startup Summit - Monday Aug 24 - Join us<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm doing a presentation at the Edible Startup Summit in Madison tomorrow (Monday 8/24/2015).<br />
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My talk is titled 'How To Use<br />
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If you're in the area please join us.<br />
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Looks like a great lineup of seminars and information sharing opportunities.<br />
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I love the Summit tag line - 'Building companies you can sink your teeth into!'<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.ediblestartup.com/" target="_blank">Link to the Edible Startup Summit</a> </b>Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-41111605117353367382015-07-21T22:19:00.000-05:002015-07-21T22:22:36.780-05:00Wisconsin Innovation Kitchen cited by U.S. Commerce Secretary Pritzger - "Make It in America renaissance"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">The work of the Wisconsin Innovation Kitchen was just cited by U.S. Commerce Secretary Pritzger as an example of the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">"Make It in America renaissance". </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">She was announcing the awards as a way to identify innovative new 'Manufacturing Communities' in the United States for investors. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">The Madison (WI) region was chosen for its emphasis on agriculture, food and beverage.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Secretary Pritzger had hundreds of projects nationally to choose from to highlight by name as representing the 'Make It in America renaissance'. She chose the Wisconsin Innovation Kitchen.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">"The IMCP designation is an important signal to potential investors that these communities are a good place to spend their money."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Department of Commerce is also supporting the Make It in America renaissance through the Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership. This program – run by the Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration – encourages regional collaboration to create comprehensive plans aimed at drawing inbound investment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Here is how it works: Leaders from the private sector, local government, higher education, local economic development organizations, and other nonprofits work together to identify a sector of manufacturing where their community has a comparative advantage and draft a strategic plan that addresses: workforce and supply chain challenges; infrastructure; research and innovation; trade and investment; capital access; and operational improvement for manufacturing companies. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />After selecting the best plans, the Department of Commerce supports their implementation by coordinating federal aid from 11 different agencies and providing the community with a dedicated counselor to navigate federal services. An IMCP designation is an important signal to potential investors that these communities are a good place to spend their money. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And this is smart government at work. By breaking down silos and encouraging communities to take a more thoughtful, comprehensive approach to their strategic plans, we are ensuring that precious federal dollars are used on the most high impact projects and in <span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">a way that maximizes return on investment.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">Among this group is the Madison Regional Economic Partnership in Wisconsin, who put together an ambitious strategy aimed at taking advantage of the growing trend toward “local foods.” The community plans to expand the Wisconsin Innovation Kitchen,</span></b> upgrade an existing kitchen incubator, build a Madison public market, and construct a training center and trucking logistics center. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other new designees are located across the country and span from a Louisiana State University-led consortium on chemical manufacturing to a partnership in the Pacific Northwest on wood products. I look forward to seeing how these communities grow as a result of their IMCP designation. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />From coast to coast, America’s manufacturers are the backbone of our economy, and our country’s prosperity is closely linked to your success. Through smart programs like IMCP, Manufacturing Day, and more, the Department of Commerce is committed to being your partners as this vital sector of economy continues its remarkable resurgence. Working together, we can ensure America’s manufacturers remain at the center of our nation’s prosperity and keep America open for your businesses. Thank you."</span></div>
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Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-6161400213561633602015-07-18T17:44:00.003-05:002015-07-21T22:05:33.650-05:00Gratifying business news<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">I’ve always thought that the work I do is manufacturing / making.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We made custom commercial art for 25 years at our beloved first business, Banner Graphics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(1972-1997)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My last manufacturing startup (1997- ) won globally cool recognition from the world’s leading engineering organization (2005).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our work was awarded Fast Company magazine’s honor for the world’s most 50 innovative companies (2004).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Last week, United States Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzger cited the work of the Wisconsin Innovation Kitchen as representing a new 'Make It In America renaissance'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Secretary Pritzger shared her remarks at the National Manufacturing Summit hosted by Wal-Mart recently.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Secretary Pritzger had hundreds of projects nationally to choose from to represent what 'Manufacturing Communities' can mean for a better future. She chose the Wisconsin Innovation Kitchen to talk about first.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“The Department of Commerce is also supporting the Make It in America renaissance through the Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership. This program – run by the Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration – encourages regional collaboration to create comprehensive plans aimed at drawing inbound investment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is how it works: Leaders from the private sector, local government, higher education, local economic development organizations, and other nonprofits work together to identify a sector of manufacturing where their community has a comparative advantage and draft a strategic plan that addresses: workforce and supply chain challenges; infrastructure; research and innovation; trade and investment; capital access; and operational improvement for manufacturing companies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Among this group is the Madison Regional Economic Partnership in Wisconsin, who put together an ambitious strategy aimed at taking advantage of the growing trend toward “local foods.” The community plans to expand the Wisconsin Innovation Kitchen, upgrade an existing kitchen incubator, build a Madison public market, and construct a training center and trucking logistics center.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After selecting the best plans, the Department of Commerce supports their implementation by coordinating federal aid from 11 different agencies and providing the community with a dedicated counselor to navigate federal services. An IMCP designation is an important signal to potential investors that these communities are a good place to spend their money. And this is smart government at work. By breaking down silos and encouraging communities to take a more thoughtful, comprehensive approach to their strategic plans, we are ensuring that precious federal dollars are used on the most high impact projects and in a way that maximizes return on investment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 2014, we announced the first 12 communities to receive the IMCP designation. While we are barely a year into the process, we are already seeing results. For example, the Southwestern Ohio Aerospace Region has secured nearly $20 million in federal investment since receiving its IMCP designation. They have already created more than 2,500 new jobs and attracted new private sector commitments totaling $529 million in the region’s manufacturing base. Today, I have the pleasure of announcing that we have selected 12 new communities to receive the federal IMCP designation. These communities will be able to better respond to industry needs by building robust industrial ecosystems and strengthening their manufacturing clusters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: blue;">Among this group is the Madison Regional Economic Partnership in Wisconsin, who put together an ambitious strategy aimed at taking advantage of the growing trend toward “local foods.” The community plans to expand the Wisconsin Innovation Kitchen,</span> upgrade an existing kitchen incubator, build a Madison public market, and construct a training center and trucking logistics center.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I recommend this nice, succinct summary of the mess we have created in our food systems and the opportunities to fix it.<br />
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The essay is titled, 'Food and Community. A future intertwined.'<br />
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I recently met (by phone) a couple of the authors. <br />
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This is a good summary of the economic value and security that regional foods can bring to communities...<br />
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“This is because a healthy community will be a relatively self-sufficient one. A community's complete dependency on outsiders for its mere survival weakens it. The most fundamental requirement for survival is food. Hence, how and where food is grown is foundational to an economics for community” <br />
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"Without a doubt, the centralized industrial food system has achieved amazing productivity and technological advances over the last half century. But along the way, the creation of short-term shareholder wealth has been decoupled from community health, environmental sustainability, and justice, and community self-reliance has been sacrificed to the pursuit of specialization, efficiency, and scale economies."<br />
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"We believe that the current food revolution is a hopeful harbinger of some remarkable community-level changes in our food and food system to come over the next twenty-five years—changes that are essential to diversify and restore balance and resilience to our dangerously lopsided current system."<br />
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"We believe we are in the midst of a community-rooted food renaissance—the rebirth of food that travels a short and known route from field to plate and accomplishes these things:<br />
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Thanks to the authors for a great summary of this historic opportunity to fix things.<br />
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Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-85529755028563514912015-04-12T18:36:00.001-05:002015-04-12T18:37:23.284-05:00Happy 10th Anniversary Sustainable Work!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">My goodness. Today is the 10th anniversary of this blog.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">The photo is from the award ceremony where we were honored as the United States Small Business New Product of the Year by the National Society of Professional Engineers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">The National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) represents the highest engineering standards in the world, and our work, our inventions, were chosen as the best new product created by a small business in the country that year (2005).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">What is most cool about that story, and about the work I've been trying to write about here at Sustainable Work, is that the NSPE used definitions of small business used by the federal Small Business Administration (SBA). Small business by those standards are any company of 500 employees or less. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">I tell people the best part of this story is not that we won, but that we did it with 4 people.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">And we changed the world. Those designs are now recycling millions of gallons of oil worldwide that used to be lost as wastewater. Four strong, daring, stubborn people. It brings to mind the great Margaret Mead quote: "Never doubt that a group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">I'm very proud of the work I've done and of the body of writing I've built up in this blog over the past decade.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Below is what I first wrote on April 12, 2005. I was in a budget hotel in Dubuque, smearing oil and blood all over the notebook following a difficult - but successful - installation of one of our fluid recycling systems at the local John Deere plant.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">I'm still trying to do what I put in this first post, 10 years ago today. I'm more confident than ever we can pull it off. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Hi;</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">I'm glad you've found you're way here. Welcome!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">I've got this idea that I'd like to start a million more small, sustainable enterprises. However, I'm 50 something and I have a perfectly wonderful 90 hour a week job now. So I'm just going to have to talk about it here in my spare time. Hopefully I can help other people along this path. Can we get to a million new small enterprises? Come on along. Let's try. I look forward to sharing this site with you.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">All the best,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Rick </span>Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-85375210121069765452015-04-10T15:37:00.002-05:002015-04-10T15:37:53.765-05:00Congratulations Chef Paul Virant - Check out this video<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Link below to a great new video about Chef Paul Virant.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Paul is a friend and an inspiration. At Innovation Kitchens, we’re working with Paul to bring his remarkable recipes to a wider audience. Look for Paul’s groundbreaking cookbook, The Preservation Kitchen. Innovation Kitchens is a culinary foundry for building artisan food brands.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Paul is a finalist for this year's James Beard Award. Congratulations Paul!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoFoodGame?fref=photo" target="_blank">Watch this beautiful video about Chef Paul Virant's work.</a> (Posted here April 6, 2015)</span>Rick Terrienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02039921731185427478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12082815.post-47247535073353664782015-04-10T14:49:00.002-05:002015-04-10T14:49:55.719-05:00Local foods year-round. Innovation Kitchens has the model.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Innovation Kitchens provides local foods year-round. Chefs and food service pros can order our fresh-frozen, farm identified local ingredients any time of the year. Here's a nice photo and post from our friends at </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Thrive foodery in Wausau, WI.</span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">"Tonight we have Fresh Pacific Cod served with Wisconsin Sweet Corn Polenta finished with a Double Tomato Bruschetta. Thank you to our friends at </span><a data-gt="{"entity_id":"278080808915447","entity_path":"\/ajax\/pagelet\/generic.php:PhotoViewerInitPagelet"}" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=278080808915447&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/InnovationKitchensLLC" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Innovation Kitchens LLC</a><span style="color: #141823; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;"> for providing us with some beautiful produce!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="color: #141823; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span style="color: #141823; line-height: 18px;">We've developed a smart new business plan for local and specialty foods year-round that focuses on supporting family farms. Chefs and food service pros can order our fresh-frozen, farm-identified local ingredients any time of the year. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 18px;">The 2015 harvest is coming up. Does your organization want to increase it's offering of local foods year-round? Let's talk.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 18px;">Thanks Chef Elizabeth at <a href="http://thrivefoodery.com/#home" target="_blank">Thrive foodery</a>!</span></span><br />
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