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    Monthly Archives: June 2011

    • The Vernacular of Upcycling: reused and reclaimed and vintage, oh my!

      Posted by Andrew in Issues

      If you are part of the upcycled industry (yes! it is an industry…small but growing), you know that it has its own vernacular, like any other industry. The vernacular is not overly complex, but it’s potentially confusing nonetheless. A lot of it is marketing: people in the biz are simply looking for effective ways to [...]

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    • Said a mouthful elsewhere on the site....

      Posted by Andrew in The Company

      The Hipcycle site is brand new, and will evolve incrementally over the next few months, and then will change dramatically once the e-commerce portion goes live. What's written in the Our Story and Product Partners sections of the site are a mouthful rooted in passionate opinions, no doubt, and so may quite possibly illicit contrarian opinions.
      I'd love to hear [...]

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    • So, why am I doing this?

      Posted by Andrew in The Company

      That is, why am I starting Hipcycle? I've worked for other people all of my professional life, but have always had this little piece inside of me, longing to break out, that has wanted to be an entrepreneur. I have business ideas rattling around in my head all the time, and most of them involve figuring out [...]

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