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Where to Find High-Quality Drone Parts and Accessories

The Startup Magazine

For example, NW Blue Portland built its reputation by only selling carefully vetted components hand-picked for reliability, unlike mass-market generalists pushing volume over quality. One benefit of specialized stores is their targeted customer service. Pay attention to existing customer reviews before opting for direct purchase.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. The celebration for its unique culture and flourishing business community is very appealing, and many new startups are flocking to the city to embrace it as their own. Boulder, CO. The companies out here, they’re rooting for each other.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

Both Sides of the Table

When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. Ariel understood her customer?—?the So Why Does This Matter? the modern buyer of home products?—?better

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

Although we started in Portland, Oregon, we now have members in every state with many meetup launches planned for 2020.We’re Now we’re a bonafide and recognized medium-sized company that serves customers throughout our State and employs many arborists and serves so many homes and businesses. Photo Credit: Debjeet Gupta.

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Market Your Business for Free: Find Your Brand Ambassadors

Up and Running

What’s the best way to market your business that costs nothing? Tip #1: Really listen to your customer. But if you go out of your way to understand what your customer did and didn’t like, and you take active steps to fix what went wrong, you’ll have a customer—and a brand ambassador—for life. Find your brand ambassadors.

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How I Started a Gluten-Free Cookie Company: With Josh Fegles of Jude’s Foods

Up and Running

” That’s what got me connected with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center and Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center. It was the community college course I took. Also, knowing the difference between fixed and variable costs. I googled “How do you sell a food product?”

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