Friday, November 19, 2010

Happy Entrepreneur's Day

Nspiregreen would like to wish all fellow business owners a Happy Entrepreneur's Day. People often ask us why we quit our great paying jobs with benefits to start our own company. Nspiregreen wasn't something we cooked up over night. This is something we've been thinking about since the first day we met.

In 2002, we were roommates at a leadership conference for the National Society of Black Engineers. At the time Veronica was in graduate school working on her thesis exploring environmental inequity in DC. Chancee was an undergrad and had a strong interest in brownfield redevelopment. Within ten minutes of meeting each other we developed the concept that we were going to combine our engineering degrees with our community organizing backgrounds and create an engineering company that specializes in public involvement.


Fast forward to April 2009, we read "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. That book was the catalyst taking our dream and making it a reality. In June of 2009, we had a pow-wow at Chancee's house to develop a mission, vision, core values, and begin fleshing out the framework for the business. In January 2010, we stepped out on faith to devote ourselves full-time to bringing our vision of "facilitating the empowerment and transformation of every community on the planet."

We believe we are destined to be a global leader in the sustainability movement.

Here are some quotes that Nspire us:
"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

"Don't let people who are living their nightmare tell you that you can't live your dream" - Unknown

"There's no sense in blaming the mountain for being too high. Instead, find a way to climb it." - Ralph Marston

"No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure."
Napoleon Hill

2 comments:

  1. Thank you for sharing Veronica and Chancee'. I look forward to watching your company grow... Congratulations to you both! Keep Dreaming!

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  2. Thanks so much for visiting our blog!!!!

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