Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

Company culture is defined as the shared values, beliefs and practices of company employees including management. Company culture changes as the employees in the business change, as management makes strategic decisions and as the business environment shifts. Look for common employee behaviors.

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Small Business CPA Government North America 87

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Will you easily be able to find employees? Do you have access to an engaged community that is eager to help? Can you afford to pay your employees at least the minimum wage? Zoning map of Eugene, Oregon. Our business in located on Country Club Drive and down the street from a large country club community.”.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Simultaneously, people in Oregon, Montana and Idaho are dealing with forest fires brought on by the driest conditions these states have seen in decades. Develop a communication plan for your organization. This may be the case for employees who have a disability and need help getting around. Know your staff.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Covering the blossoming startup industry in Portland, Oregon, and the Silicon Forest. 6) Advise as if you were an employee. Personally, I take this from the vantage of an employee or consultant advising his or her superiors. Community Manager. Oregon Entrepreneur Network (OEN). Silicon Florist. by Rick Turoczy.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Building relationships with vendors and the local community. Most small businesses and startups that are looking to grow— hire a new employee , or buy a new piece of equipment, or open a new location —need to think hard about cash flow, or making sure they have enough money in the bank to meet payroll and other financial obligations.

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Oregon Jordan Software Review Distribution 24

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2012

Airport employees eagerly greet you with smiles and ask how they can help. an employee asks. Airline employees know where you can buy last-minute souvenirs. These basic introductions and inductions are important, but they don’t connect new employees to the company or the culture in a welcoming and motivating way.

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Singapore Architecture Metrics Hiring 170

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2016

As MehtaFor continued to grow in 2016, expanding pro bono services and the trainee program, receiving the support of an Oregon-based grant created just for entrepreneurs making a living with their craft was tremendously appreciated. You have to recognize that you’re part of a worldwide community — social media is not a billboard.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Haiti Baltimore 92

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Tired of working for someone else, in 2010 they opened a Northwest-style-meets-Southern-cuisine food cart in downtown Eugene, Oregon. The University of Oregon marketing department also did a survey for us to see what beers and food worked best in a 50-mile radius. Stephen: Employee relations. We also do monthly charity events.

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Oregon Distribution Portland Georgia 60

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2014

Plus, demonstrating through your company’s actions — not just your mission statement or website copy — that you care about employees, customers, and society in general will help you to build tremendous customer loyalty. Southwest cares so much about employees and customers that LUV is the company’s stock symbol. Southwest Airlines.

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Up and Running

MAY 9, 2014

Do you know how your employees treat customers when you aren’t there? Customer service is the key to the word-of-mouth advertising you hope to generate in the community. Training can often help employees provide better customer service. Train employees in verifying that the check or credit card is good.

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Customer Oregon Operations Small Business 91

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2015

How to Make Community the Secret To Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The word community has been with us for centuries. A town, a church, a school, a collection of hobbyists, have all long been identified as communities. A community, as described above, can serve a business in a number of ways.

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Community Intellectual Property Portland Oregon 28

David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

Our portfolio company BetterWorks cites a report by The World Economic Forum: “Employees are eight times more likely to be engaged when wellness is a priority in the workplace.” A pedometer is a great motivator and if all your employees are wearing them it sets up healthy competition.”

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Up and Running

APRIL 19, 2016

If you don’t have buy-in from your partners, your employees, and your customers, you just went through a whole lot of something for a whole lot of nothing. Tip #2: Include your employees. The best rebrands come from the bottom up and get all employees involved. Third, internal communications radically improved.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2015

Tip #2: Make your employee or sub-contractor a hero. Southwest Airlines knew early on that their employees were key to succeeding in a highly competitive marketplace, and so they made their employees the real heroes. For example, in it’s 44 years of business, Southwest Airlines has never furloughed its employees.

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Marketing Portland Oregon Employee 60

Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

” That’s what got me connected with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center and Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center. The class was about a three month class, and then after it was over I took those next steps to get my LLC and my bakery license from the Oregon Department of Agriculture.

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Oregon Portland Small Business Entrepreneur 60

Up and Running

JULY 17, 2017

My neighborhood of Alberta in Portland, Oregon, where small local businesses are plentiful. However, this isn’t just based on the perception that local communities are experiencing improved economic conditions; in fact, it’s debatable whether or not individual small business communities are actually experiencing measurable success and growth.

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Small Business America Ohio Portland 103

Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2013

There was nothing else like it in Eugene, Oregon, but Helen was sure that if they could just try it, consumers in Eugene would love it as much as she did. Community-centric cart. We believed it was building good community and good karma.” I had to hire an employee!” Ume Grill’s original neighborhood location.

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Oregon Business Plan Security Community 75

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2017

To me, the biggest takeaway from my time with John is when he talks about what they look for in employees. Essentially this is a concept that was started on the West Coast in Portland, Oregon. One thing we’ve done this year is another extension of what I believe in – trying to give back to the community.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Although we started in Portland, Oregon, we now have members in every state with many meetup launches planned for 2020.We’re I’m especially excited because some of the well-respected investors in the VC community have agreed to be a part of our advisory/mentorship board which will give our program the much-required credibility.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 127

Up and Running

JULY 31, 2014

There’s a difference between gut feeling about something and then a belief based on experience and knowledge and just being part of the business community. The more times you go to the gym as an employee, the more Palo Alto software pays for your gym membership, because we want to encourage people to be healthy.

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Software Review Sales Acquisition Small Business 74

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Couple that with high demand for technical employees like programmers and engineers, and you’re faced with a difficult hurdle that can require some elbow grease to overcome. You also have to have the passion and drive to contribute to the overall aspirations of the company, and folks like that can be hard to come by. Comfortable and steady!

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Small Business Mobile Portland Early Stage 70

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

and Verizon Communications Inc. At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. Both studies counted only incorporated companies with employees. Journal Community. Journal Community. A community of WSJ readers interested in franchising news, trends and issues. Comcast Corp., entrepreneurship.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the XOXO Festival in Portland Oregon. In 5 months since the program began his revenue is growing, he’s moved out of his basement and has hired his first employees. Angie had a website and fast growing Instagram account for news and gossip relevant to the Black community.

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Venture Capital Valuation Los Angeles Chicago 40

Up and Running

AUGUST 7, 2015

Do you have one for an investor and then one for new employees? If you’re talking to an investor or an employee, a potential employee, a potential strategic partner, all those people are folks who you want to have at the end of your pitch feel like they need more, feel like they need more from you or hear more from you, that kind of thing.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

We’ve also used employees dressed in a banana suit to walk around the boardwalk and promote the stand. Peter: Yeah, and you’ve got employees and other things. We have George Michael, his cousin, Maeby, and then there might be a period of time where we bring on a third employee, T-Bone. Peter: Great.

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