Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We try to hire deeply analytical associates to can help companies problem solve and who make us better investors. You can’t let every team hire as many team members as they want. A Sense of Purpose.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2016

I’ve now grown it to a 6-figure business and made my first hire. is the first fully customized unit geared towards a sensitive canine nervous system. 3 – Doubled Our Team, Hired & Retained Talent. I believe that there is nothing more important that a business leader does than hire well.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

Primary market research consists of interviewing or surveying potential customers on their preferences and ability to purchase. Secondary market research consists of gathering information that is already available regarding the target customer group such as demographic data available through the U. Census Bureau.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

You struggle to get budget to hire Analysts or Marketers. Name, a unique persistent customer id (Geek ID), the keyword the person came on and their underwear size. and you have one more page in Omniture you can configure to compute customer offline intent (THDStoreFinderDirections baby!). Well just assume. :).

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

Then you’ll think through your ideal customer , your competition , and your opportunities for growth. 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. Problem and solution. Why should they pick you instead of another practice?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Geoloqi solves those problems for its developer customers. There’s a clear roadmap, they know what they’re working on, and they can hire more Portlanders. All Geoloqi’s investors hail from Oregon, and the company was a star of the city’s incubators. We know we can be [at Esri] for a long time and work on cutting-edge stuff.”

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? and the fourth largest in its home state of Oregon, after powerhouse brands such as Deschutes, Rogue, and Full Sail.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Nudge is a fast pace, but still insightful with real world examples that you can apply her recent issue, talked about the, the idea of getting your customers, your prospects, in the habit of buying from you, or listening to you or following you. I rode my bicycle from Virginia to Oregon. Or an inaccurate busy restaurant, right?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

Thankfully, the availability of other unconventional funding options is also increasing, providing capital to entrepreneurs whose businesses may grow to become long-term customers. Case in point: It took Amazon six years to earn a dime, during which it consumed huge amounts of venture funding and issued an IPO.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

It’s about being somewhere your customers will see you, about being in a competitive location, about staying within budget, and about meeting local and state regulations and laws. Zoning map of Eugene, Oregon. An interior designer was hired to make the space shine. That’s great, but it’s not enough. Give it a try.

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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 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: Martin Luenendonk.

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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. His strategy?

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Up and Running

MAY 9, 2014

The best way to know what customers want is to ask them. The main question will be, are you willing to implement the ideas your best customers provide? Maybe the customers are partial to a particular brand they can’t get anywhere else in town. Customers want to be able to shop when they have the time.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Let’s use the Oregon football team as an example. In business, you have to know what your core values are to know what you’re looking for in a new hire. If a potential employee doesn’t have either one of those traits, we won’t make that hire. We should be making our customers into our fans. Know your core values.

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Up and Running

JULY 17, 2014

Hiring professionals for a small business is an important process. Remember, you are the customer in this situation and you need to feel this is the person or firm who can serve your needs now and in the future. Have you hired legal help for your small business? Share your experience in the comments below.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If your product or service doesn’t solve a problem that potential customers have, you don’t have a viable business. As long as you, as an entrepreneur, are solving a problem that customers have, you can build a business. There are no good Chinese restaurants in Eugene, Oregon.”. Simple as that.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

How much you’ll pay depends on the state where you form your LLC and whether you hire a professional to help you. Trade names or DBAs make sense if your LLC’s legal name is too formal or too vague to help customers find you. And Oregon requires insurance agents to be licensed by the state’s Division of Financial Regulation.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It’s more essential than ever that you bond and mesh with your co-founders and first hires. Phil Knight, the co-founder of Nike, was a runner at the University of Oregon under the famous coach Bill Bowerman, who later coached the US Olympic team. How do you bring your best self to this all-out effort? Consider this legendary example.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Some hire employees only during the busy times and lay them off when the season ends. Some find ways to create off-season demand through partnerships with other businesses, or by offering deals to local customers, or by moving sales online. Some find alternative business options for the slower part of the year.

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Up and Running

MAY 31, 2012

Jesse Thomas, of Springfield, Oregon, was an amateur triathlete. “But what we have now is a truly organic base of customers, and a product that people legitimately value.” What happens when they combine forces to create a snack for pre-workout fueling and post-workout recovery?

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Up and Running

MARCH 13, 2019

If your product or service doesn’t solve a problem that potential customers have, you don’t have a viable business model. As long as you, as an entrepreneur, are solving a problem that customers have, you can build a business. There are no good Chinese restaurants in Eugene, Oregon.”. What do your customers already spend?

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

Beginning as a small red cart in Eugene, Oregon, today Red Wagon Creamery has a downtown storefront, local retail distribution, and online ordering. We wanted ice cream that we make from scratch,” Emily says, “to showcase local, Oregon dairy, and using local, seasonal fruit, berries, and produce.”.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. I re-ignited Anvil as consultancy, but I wasn’t quite ready to hire employees yet. Since then, Anvil has achieved Fastest Growing, Most Admired and Most Philosophic Companies in Oregon.

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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. And as she looked for opportunities to reinvent her model and grow, she paid close attention to her customers’ needs. I had to hire an employee!” Helen said.

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Up and Running

MARCH 2, 2010

We had moved from Palo Alto, California to Eugene, Oregon. Entrepreneurs with 10 years or 15 years staying power aren’t considered great hires by many companies, and Eugene didn’t have a lot of jobs. Point number three : We had no choice. That’s not something we’re proud of. Image: Mare Salerno/Shutterstock).

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Up and Running

JUNE 1, 2016

Here in Portland, Oregon, you can’t swing a stick without hitting half a dozen food trucks serving up a range of delicious options. Here are 9 solid strategies that will help you bring in more money, attract more customers, and grow your food truck business. The craze for mobile eats has been on the rise.

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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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Up and Running

MARCH 15, 2016

She explains: “I went to Ryerson and, as a student, acquired all of the necessary machinery for my own personal tailor shop and when I left my industry job, I had already booked my first custom project, for which I took a deposit. Who is your ideal customer, and what does your target market look like? Step 7: Hiring employees.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2017

To make his concept viable in KC, Couture hired an area law firm to help lobby the City Council to change tavern licensing. Essentially this is a concept that was started on the West Coast in Portland, Oregon. Answers John C : Bier Station is the Midwest’s first craft beer tasting bar and bottle shop.

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Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

After doing my MBA at the University of Oregon, I decided I wanted to try to become a professional triathlete. Our first employees were actually University of Oregon students that came in and made the bars in our house. Eventually I hired my cousin who was a super talented young graphic designer out of Cal Poly.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Peter: Well, fortunately I know how to pronounce his name because I felt and that was some of his incubator work but Joe is a local entrepreneurial champion here in Oregon. Here in Oregon, we’ve got some in Portland that are really great and then this article talks about some here in Eugene, Oregon which are doing well but fairly new.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Human Resources and Conflict Resolution (22:32): Read more: Oregon’s New Sick Leave Law. If your customer service team is unbelievably great and innovative, a thing as simple as customer service might become your defining characteristic. I think the beginning obviously would be the hiring process.

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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. It’s this interesting cycle to watch as an outsider where the things that people are building, they are building for investors and not necessarily building for customers. The Andyies asked me to talk about our Indie.vc And that’s not a joke.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Every business today has a community that is made up of its employees, customers, supporters, networks, suppliers, and mentors. Recognition of the fact that total community is far greater than a customer list is key to the most profitable business growth. Today, a healthy business is defined by the health of the community it draws.

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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. Having to hire, fire, and lay people off, it’s hard to do.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Back to Top « Customer Service. Customer Center. Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. SMALL BUSINESS.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

The opportunity when I got to pitch on stage in front of 400 angel investors was for the largest angel investor conference in the Pacific northwest called Angel Oregon, and we competed with 60 other companies. I have some entrepreneurs who are in Gaza, who are in Cairo, who are in New Jersey, and I’m in Oregon.

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