How LinkedIn Transformed HeatSpring Emails Here’s an email I got from LinkedIn today: Contrast that with a HeatSpring newsletter from a few weeks ago: For eight years I was proud of our email newsletter. We put a lot of hard work into making it relevant… Continue reading “How LinkedIn Transformed HeatSpring Emails”
Home Performance Coalition, Home Energy Magazine, and Rick Karg Tackle ASHRAE 62.2 This week we launched a new course, “ASHRAE 62.2 Ventilation for Single-Family Dwellings”, for Fall 2015. To understand why this course is special, you need to meet the A+ team. Rick Karg has been on the ASRAE 62.2 committee since… Continue reading “Home Performance Coalition, Home Energy Magazine, and Rick Karg Tackle ASHRAE 62.2”
How to Take the IGSHPA Geothermal Certification Exam This is a short video explaining how the IGSHPA Geothermal Installer Certification exam works. The process has changed significantly in the past year – for the better – and we’re excited about how easy it is for students to take… Continue reading “How to Take the IGSHPA Geothermal Certification Exam”
How I Failed to Attract Venture Capital and What It Says About HeatSpring I spent the summer of 2014 raising money. More accurately, I spent the summer of 2014 pitching investors to help our company grow more quickly, failed, and cried about it. This is the story of what happened and what it… Continue reading “How I Failed to Attract Venture Capital and What It Says About HeatSpring”
NABCEP Certification: How To Get It, What It’s Worth This is a presentation I gave this week in Cleveland at the ElectroExpo. The audience was pretty small, just fifteen folks attended, so it turned into an intimate conversation rather than a formal presentation. An honest discussion about business, renewable… Continue reading “NABCEP Certification: How To Get It, What It’s Worth”
SpaceNews, Charles Miller, and the Incredible Commercial Space Course This week SpaceNews signed on as our media partner for the next round of the “Commercial Space Executive Leadership” course developed in partnership with the AIAA. I don’t like hyperbole or excessive hype, even when I talk about work we’re… Continue reading “SpaceNews, Charles Miller, and the Incredible Commercial Space Course”
Online IGSHPA Geothermal Certification Course Now Available Between 2007 and 2011, we helped certify several thousand geothermal installers at 3-day workshops around the country. Oil and gas were expensive, and the industry was going through a big growth spurt. Over the past several years that growth has… Continue reading “Online IGSHPA Geothermal Certification Course Now Available”
Nanoracks Co-founder Teaching New Commercial Space Course We’re proud to announce that Charles Miller, Co-founder of Nanoracks, will be teaching our “Commercial Space Executive Leadership Training” that begins on Monday, February 2nd. This in-depth program has been in development for more than a year. The goal is… Continue reading “Nanoracks Co-founder Teaching New Commercial Space Course”
Join Us: HeatSpring Alumni Meetup at AHR in Chicago Online classes are cool, but they’re even better when you can meet in real life. AHR is a great opportunity to do just that. Date: January 27th from 4-6pm Location: AHR – McCormick Place in Chicago Cost: Free (RSVP Here)… Continue reading “Join Us: HeatSpring Alumni Meetup at AHR in Chicago”
[New Course] Renewable Energy Policy Master Class One of my favorite memories of any conference I’ve ever attended was watching Jigar Shah on a panel at NESEA’s Building Energy Conference. A question came from the audience about why he pushes solar over building efficiency, when building efficiency… Continue reading “[New Course] Renewable Energy Policy Master Class”
[Free Tool] How to Calculate Boiler Efficiency Gains Roy Collver’s “Condensing Boilers in Hydronic Systems” is the most underutilized course we offer (OK, tied with Robert Bean’s HVAC Engineering). Roy has built this exhaustive educational experience that only a handful of folks have benefited from so far. We hope… Continue reading “[Free Tool] How to Calculate Boiler Efficiency Gains”
2015 Entrepreneur’s Guide to Employee Health Coverage Q: “What does your small business do about employee health insurance?” I surveyed twenty businesses with fewer than twenty-five employees because we’re trying to figure out what to do at HeatSpring. The U.S. health insurance market is in the throes… Continue reading “2015 Entrepreneur’s Guide to Employee Health Coverage”
“Cover of the Solar Pro” = Amazing Solar Marketing Video If you’re in the solar industry, or a fan of renewable energy and small business, it’s impossible to watch this video and not smile: I don’t have any deep insights or tips to share on this, I just wanted more… Continue reading ““Cover of the Solar Pro” = Amazing Solar Marketing Video”
Get All the Tools and Advice You Need to Start a Solar Business We’re launching the first online solar startup accelerator in the winter of 2015 so you can get all of the tools and advice you need to start your solar business. Here’s why: The solar industry grew 36% in 2014, creating tons… Continue reading “Get All the Tools and Advice You Need to Start a Solar Business”
New Course: Data Center Essentials for Executives This week we’ve launched our first data center course, offered through Datacenter Dynamics. Jon Koomey is the instructor, and we’re all really excited to have him teaching. I asked Jon to talk about his inspiration for the course. Here’s what… Continue reading “New Course: Data Center Essentials for Executives”
New Course: Land Boundary Master Class We recently launched the “Land Boundary Master Class” in partnership with BNP Media and Jeff Lucas. I’ve come to learn that Jeff is highly regarded for his honesty, humor, and vision for where the industry of land surveying is going… Continue reading “New Course: Land Boundary Master Class”
AIAA Launches Free Course on the Business of Commercial Space October 6, 2014 – Reston, Va. – American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has partnered with Dr. Daniel Rasky, Bruce Pittman, and HeatSpring to offer a free course on the business opportunities in the emerging commercial space industry. The… Continue reading “AIAA Launches Free Course on the Business of Commercial Space”
Meet Gabrielle Rossetti, HeatSpring’s New Community Builder As education goes digital, the big fear is that we’ll have fewer opportunities to connect with great people who might help to transform our lives and careers. We think the opposite is true. As our company grows, we’re doubling down… Continue reading “Meet Gabrielle Rossetti, HeatSpring’s New Community Builder”
Interview with Jason Riback, Co-founder of Vulume I don’t build buildings, but a lot of my colleagues and customers do. So I spend a lot of time at building conferences, reading about buildings, and listening to the most knowledgeable people in the industry teach the skills and… Continue reading “Interview with Jason Riback, Co-founder of Vulume”
‘Commercial Roofing Boot Camp’: A new online workshop from Jim Hoff, ARW Magazine, and HeatSpring Jim Hoff is the VP of research at the Center for Environmental Innovation in Roofing (The Center) and a longtime industry executive. This spring, he’s teaching a ten-week, advanced design course online for 50 professionals. It’s a details-oriented design course… Continue reading “‘Commercial Roofing Boot Camp’: A new online workshop from Jim Hoff, ARW Magazine, and HeatSpring”