How to make your business sustainable?

[Jordan Epstein]

Happy Wednesday everybody-

I gave a lecture last night on the lessons I learned while creating a sustainable 

business model. For those interested, check out the link to the bullet points :

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=486160249158

Hope it can be of assistance in your mission- and if you have anything to add, 

please respond and share your pearls of wisdom.

Be well,

Jordan

Jordan Epstein
m. 302.545.9411
Twitter

[Jordan Epstein]

Hey thanks Dave-

I love the way you're thinking there, and I'd add this, which is something that they really harped on at GoodCompany Ventures: while doing business sustainably is an intuitive feeling many of us have, and while doing things like caring for your employees and the environment from which you get your resources ultimately makes better financial sense- it takes a lot more thought to consider all input costs, externalized costs and the impacts of our actions yet still arrive at profits. 

Once thinking sustainably, you can't take shortcuts and put out bad quality products and you have to continually challenge yourself.  So, after figuring out a model that we and our prospective clients love, it makes sense to me that people are going in the direction of sustainability, but it also makes sense to me why some people and companies aren't.  It's not until they see the business sense - when more and more companies like ours come into a place of power like those that came before us and ultimately clean up- that they will make these shifts.  The tipping point- that or government regulation.

 Anyway, that's my soapbox.   But thank you again, and let me know how I can help the great work you're doing!

J

Jordan Epstein
m. 302.545.9411
Twitter

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:46 PM, David Gloss <dkg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Some great nuggets in there!  Keep rockin and rollin!

There is no such thing as the triple bottom line any more.  Doing good is just how we do business.

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David K Gloss
DKG...@gmail.com
610-772-1270

[Jordan Epstein]

Thanks Natalia.  I guess that I shouldn't have posed the subject as a question, as I'm already connected to those folks.  Check out the link contained in my original post, I actually gave a lecture on this topic on Tuesday Night.

Thanks again!

Jordan

Jordan Epstein
m. 302.545.9411
Twitter

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Natalia Olson Urtecho <nat...@ecolibriumgroup.com> wrote:

Check out B Corporation, they started in our region and they help companies meet comprehensive and transparent social and environmental performance standards

http://www.bcorporation.net/

 

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