Author Archives: Allen

Monetize that Pizza Box

By Allen | Published: October 15, 2009

If you’ve ever been to NYC for any significant period of time, it’s impossible to ignore the abundance of takeout pizza joints through out the city, and further, that every joint uses the exact same generic pizza box design with generic “pizza shop” logo printed on the top. And I mean, THE EXACT SAME BOX. Why [...]

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Lessons from a Farmer: Find Profit in Your Company’s Waste

By Allen | Published: October 13, 2009

Companies could learn a thing or too from the local farmer. Specifically, how to find profit in seemingly useless waste. After a recent visit to Stone Barns farm in Terrytown, NY (as part of NYC’s Food and Wine Festival), I began thinking about the synergies local small farmers are utilizing to dig profit out of [...]

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Platform for Personal Growth . . .

By Allen | Published: September 19, 2009

After significant personal resistance to the idea, I’ve finally taken the “personal blogging” plunge. This isn’t a flocking to the blogging bandwagon or a need to express myself in a public forum, but instead an effort to build an educational platform for myself and others. I hope to use the blog as a [...]