I went to the International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Jacob Javits Convention Center back in May. As a person new to the industry, I thought it would be a good way to get a sense of what was going on. I found it to be fascinating. I’ve been to a bajillion trade shows in [...]

I subscribe to the Economist, and it’s a great read, but really dense. A couple of years ago, a special report on global waste came out, and as usual, it was excellent, and densely voluminous in content. I clipped it and saved it into my file of cool stuff (you have one of those too [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]