Engine For Green Jobs: Premier Power CEO Dean Marks (Part 3)

SM: What type of wineries did you have as customers?

DM: They were high-end wineries. Shafer Vinyards, Chateau Montelena, and Spottswoode Vineyard and Winery are a few examples. >>>

Business Insanity Radio Show

I was on Barry Moltz’s Business Insanity radio show today, talking about doing business as a couple. Among other things, we discussed business as an aphrodisiac. Listen here.

Forbes Column 2009: Key To Innovation: Universities

Continuing on the investigation of Capitalism 2.0 and focusing on the theme of innovation, here’s Zero In this week with Key To Innovation: Universities.

Capitalism 2.0: Speculator vs. Creator

One of the flaws I see in Capitalism 1.0 is that speculators get compensated at a substantially higher rate than value creators. As a result, I am hearing from more and more entrepreneurs, CEOs, senior executives – the builders, so to speak – that they are no longer willing to work 60-80 hour weeks. They feel that the system is becoming unfair. This is one of the most severe bugs in Capitalism 1.0. >>>

Engine For Green Jobs: Premier Power CEO Dean Marks (Part 2)

SM: How did you fund your business? Did you get financing or did you bootstrap?

DM: It was all bootstrapping. The way we sold it, we would get progressive payments for a residential system. Whether it was retrofit or new construction we would get payments as modules were delivered. >>>

Upcoming Roundtables: April 9 and 15

We have 2 more roundtables coming up on April 9 and April 15. Look forward to seeing some of you there. Recordings of previous roundtables are here.

Capitalism 2.0: Rationality

Here are two more passages from Ayn Rand:

“Rationality is man’s basic virtue, the source of all his other virtues. Man’s basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know. Irrationality is the rejection of man’s means of survival and, therefore, a commitment to a course of blind destruction; that which is anti-mind, is anti-life.” >>>

Engine For Green Jobs: Premier Power CEO Dean Marks (Part 1)

SM: Let’s start where your story begins. Where did you grow up, and what is your background?

DM: I was born in Nebraska and moved around quite a bit. I lived in North Dakota, Illinois and New York, and I ended up going to college in Alabama. I joined the Boy Scouts along the way. My Eagle Scout project was related to renewable energy, which is what got me involved in helping the environment. >>>