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Growing a Solar Recycling Non-Profit
A European nonprofit organization has created a voluntary program for recycling solar modules. A unique business development challenge they are experiencing is that they are ahead of the market. Proactively organizing logistics and demonstrating their ability to offer a recycling program that is free for users and represents the manufacturers who are buying into the program is helping their huge successes to date.
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Engineers starting their own business would do well to consider the following rule of thumb: Keep the number of employees to under five or over fifteen. Julius Ballanco, founder of JB Engineering and Code Consulting, resisted the temptation to grow when the work was rolling in. Though there’s a downside to staying small (turning down work, losing work when an employee leaves), by maintaining fewer than five employees, Ballanco kept his business solid.
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Mike Brown, vice president of marketing and sales for ZAPS Technologies, and Christopher Neils, a bioengineering lecturer at the University of Washington, examine small business possibilities for mechanical engineers. Pointing out that financial understanding and sales will be just as important as anything you learn in the field, these experts describe the reality of what it means to grow from the ground up.
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Groups
Promoting the art, science and practice of mechanical engineering in the field of engineering and technology management
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