GreenPrint is featured on Entrepreneur.com. The story is a nice profile of GreenPrint and goes into detail about the potential benefits of using the software on the individual level as well as macro level - e.g. “if all new computers used GreenPrint, it would save more than 36 million trees every year and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 117 million tons–the equivalent of removing 23 million cars from the road for an entire year.”

In addition, there is an interesting article in the July edition of Inc. Magazine — a case study of GreenPrint with advice from Tim Gill of Quark. A couple of interesting facts:

• ProgressiveRx.com grosses $700,000 a year
• GreenPrint has raised $200,000 and is now trying to raise an additional $250,000 - $500,000
• Revenue projections for GreenPrint:
  • 2006: $47,000 (actual)
  • 2007: $10 million
  • 2008: $30 million

If you filled up your car’s gas tank with printer ink instead of gas, it would cost $100,000. Hayden Hamilton knew the high cost of all the wasted printed pages that sat by the print station at his office. He searched for a solution and couldn’t find one, so he founded GreenPrint. The company offers software to reduce the number of unwanted pages from printing. The average Fortune 500 company using GreenPrint saves $2 million and 4,000 trees annually.

GreenPrint is not Hayden’s first socially conscious venture. In college, he was frustrated with the monopoly of the campus bookstore so he started a competing co-op to allow students to sell their used books for 85% of the sale price. After college, Hayden saw family members without health insurance struggle to pay for prescription medications, so he started ProgressiveRx.com, which sources drugs from overseas and offers a low cost alternative for Americans without prescription drug benefits. He also created Progressive Health Worldwide, a non-profit that provides free pediatric tuberculosis clinics for kids in India and medications for AIDS orphans in Tanzania. Listen in to hear Hayden’s story.

 

 Hayden Hamilton founder of GreenPrint, ProgressiveRx.com, Progressive Health Worldwide [35:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3193)

Today my guest is serial entrepreneur David Samuel, the co-founder of Spinner Networks, Grouper, and Brondell. In 1996, two years after graduating from MIT, David pioneered Internet radio with the creation of Spinner Networks. The company was acquired three years later by AOL (AOL) for $320 million. David’s most recent venture, Grouper Networks, which specializes in Internet video sharing, was acquired last year by Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) for $65 million. But his most unique venture is Brondell, the first American-based company to develop high-tech toilet seats. Toilets have seen little innovation in the past century and Brondell is looking to change that by offering seats with remote controlled heat, warm water spray, and dryer. Listen in to hear David’s story and his advice for entrepreneurs.

 

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My guest is Jon Gavenman, shareholder at Heller Ehrman Venture Law Group, one of the premier emerging technology law firms in the country and a recognized leader in structuring and negotiating venture capital financings. Last Year, Heller Ehrman’s clients included 22 of Red Herring magazine’s top 100 private companies. The firm has strong relationships with leading venture capitalists and is known for taking an active role in bringing together entrepreneurs and investors. Listen in to hear how the company helps entrepreneurs succeed.

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