{"id":3451,"date":"2010-06-17T21:28:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T01:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2024-02-13T11:51:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T16:51:55","slug":"scenes-from-a-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/blog\/scenes-from-a-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes From a Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Lisa von Sturmer and Andrew Sutherland are CYBF entrepreneurs and the co-founders of Growing City, an innovative business committed to urban composting solutions. They were recently featured in CYBF&#8217;s promotional Clear Channel mall campaign. Lisa and Andrew report back after a serious day of hanging out at Oakridge Mall and Richmond Center\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>When we were 16 and working at the mall, we never thought we&#8217;d be involved in organics recycling. Years and many questionable hair colours later, it felt really exciting to be back at the mall as proud business owners and representatives of CYBF.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take long to find our banner or should I say BANNER. \u00a0There&#8217;s nothing like seeing a 9x12ft version of yourself suspended from the ceiling to make you feel like you&#8217;re on the right track!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>We have to say, when we officially left our established careers to pursue our company full time &#8211; many of our friends thought we were crazy! \u00a0They were skeptical that we could find a market for our service. \u00a0It was definitely a scary leap of faith! \u00a0However, working with CYBF has really given us the support and resources necessary to pull through tough times and create a viable business that&#8217;s growing. \u00a0Since October 2009 Growing City has diverted over 5 metric tonnes of food waste from our local landfills. \u00a0We&#8217;ve gone from 1 Compo-Capsule in service to over 65, and every week we&#8217;re adding new clients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Seeing that poster was an incredible validation of our decision to take a huge risk and as an extra bonus our nay-sayer friends were the first to text us pics of our larger-than-life selves. \u00a0They were happy to be wrong&#8230; and we&#8217;re happy they were wrong too!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>For you young guns out there &#8211; it&#8217;s like the poster says &#8211; entrepreneurship <em>is<\/em> a real career choice!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa von Sturmer and Andrew Sutherland are CYBF entrepreneurs and the co-founders of Growing City, an innovative business committed to urban composting solutions. They were recently featured in CYBF&#8217;s promotional Clear Channel mall campaign. Lisa and Andrew report back after a serious day of hanging out at Oakridge Mall and Richmond Center\u2026. When we were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurpreneurs-and-partners"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}