The Company

When I started Hipcycle, my goals included not only making as profit, but also operating a company in a way that contributed to the betterment of our planet and also the people on it. This attention to not just the almighty dollar is known as running a “social enterprise,” or as managing to a “triple [...]

Hipcycle recently received some fan mail from an enthusiastic fan, and I thought I’d share some excerpts from the letter:
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Hipcycle – from a different angle
I have been thinking about the history of the American economy and what I think Hipcycle is all about – from where I sit.
First….American history.
Making Stuff
There are any number of core [...]

The great folks over at Give to Get Jobs are featuring Hipcycle as their "Social Enterprise of the Month." Browse over to their blog to read their interview with me, where they ask such questions as:

What does Social Enterprise mean to you?
How does Hipcycle have a positive impact on society?
How do you balance the profit mission [...]

Thank you all for your generous support of Hipcycle so far. Since I have left the corporate world, I have been working really hard on this project, but it has felt like vacation…I’m having that much fun! If anything, the weekends, which I try my best to keep for my friends and family, are the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]