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How to Start a Brewery: Growing Your Own Craft Beer Business

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Building relationships with vendors and the local community. About the plan: Located in Medford, Oregon, Martin Cove Brewing Company has been a successful microbrewery for the past three years. With this money, they plan to expand its distribution to selected metro areas within the state of Oregon. Finding a brewery location.

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SWOT Analysis Examples

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Botanical Bounty is an Oregon-based perennial farm that grows a variety of botanical, medicinal plants. A weakness that may deter investors is NovOculi’s lack of relationship with the medical device distribution community. Example SWOT analysis: Botanical Bounty. About the company. Relationships with distributors.

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Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Steve Blank

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Here’s Part 1 of Dino’s story….

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Taking Service To The Stratosphere: 12 Keys To Creating Uplifting Service In Today’s Marketplace

YoungUpstarts

Many Partners, Many Missions, One Changi.” But that’s not everything the company’s customers and partners value. In Portland, Oregon, Apple buses senior citizens from the local community center to its stores and teaches them to use a computer, some for the very first time. Engaging Service Vision.

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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

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Here’s a brief example: The problem : There is a lack of affordable pediatric and gynecological care available in coastal areas of Lane County, Oregon. The solution : Dr. Gardner plans to open Ocean Lane Outpatient Care to serve smaller Oregon coastal communities scattered outside of major towns with major hospitals.

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How to Start a Brewery

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and the fourth largest in its home state of Oregon, after powerhouse brands such as Deschutes, Rogue, and Full Sail. Now we are growing based on the projections our wholesale partners give us annually in sales. A third location, a pub and pizzeria, is scheduled to open on the University of Oregon campus in 2016. Relationships.

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Meet the Grand Prize Entrepreneurs of the BEC Boost

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” Michelle and her business partner Andrew Ekelem are the founders of Chariot Mobility, a company dedicated to updating the manual wheelchair to a low-profile, efficient and ergonomic chair that better serves the needs of its users. “We thought we could use this opportunity to learn efficiently and write a better plan.”