Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Some of the things that have helped realty management companies like Venterra grow is their emphasis on customer service and employee satisfaction, as well as the fact that they embrace technology as a means to these ends. The truth is that embracing technology can help businesses of all sizes.

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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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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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Up and Running

JULY 17, 2014

Hiring professionals for a small business is an important process. The best attorney for your business will depend on what the legal needs are for your company. So, how should a small business owner find the right legal help for their business? Have you hired legal help for your small business?

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

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. Watch your finances. Martin Cove Brewing Company.

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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. Big companies that invest in small businesses play an important role in creating jobs.

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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. Once you do get through to them, you should have a long and honest conversation with them about what exactly your business does and does not do on a daily basis.

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Up and Running

JULY 20, 2011

Tim Berry, the founder of Palo Alto Software and a personal friend, was just nominated as a Small Business Influencer in the Guru category on SmallBizTrends.com. Can you take a quick break from reading this article and go vote for Tim Berry as a Small Business Influencer ? Tim is the expert on business planning.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Small businesses which are built on the Internet and dependent on it for their livelihoods are threatened by an amendment to the spending bill passed by the House last week. The amendment introduced by Oregon Representative Greg Walden, specifically prohibits the FCC from enforcing its Net Neutrality rules , passed late last year.

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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. If you’re operating a business out of your own home, many of the same zoning laws will apply to you. Give it a try.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

There are lots of incredibly successful businesses that dominate their marketplaces that started out as single storefronts run by just a few friends or a family. The Mattress Lot is a shop in Portland, Oregon that was started out of desperation after the shop owner, Michael Hanna, lost his job with Comcast and had trouble finding another one.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2014

We all have goals for our business, but sometimes we forget how important it is to clearly define these goals. This is especially true when it comes to financial goal setting for small businesses, where often financial goals are only vaguely defined or based too heavily on assumptions. Small Business segment.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

My favorite business quote is: “A little bit of something is better than a lot of nothing.” ” This was a statement told to me years ago by a former client of mine, Chuck Kaady, owner of Kaady Car Washes, located in Oregon. And you’ll never get a business off the ground it you try to do five things at once.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 2, 2012

I’m taking some vacation time this week and I’m actually going to stand waste deep in the Columbia River in Oregon and cast for Trout. Small business owners are trying to take advantage of these trends, but few are fully reaping the rewards. . Search using words that your prospective customers would say as well.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

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. The key to success in a seasonal business is management of cash flow. Have a question about your small business? Check with your banker about programs available.

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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. From the beginning and all along the way, careful planning has guided the business from revenues of $35,000 in 2011, to $400,000 in 2014, and estimates of $700,000 for 2015.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2014

Marketing costs are high at this stage, as it is necessary to reach out to potential customers. In the growth stage, the product has been accepted by customers, and companies are striving to increase market share. Have a question about your small business? Companies usually do not need additional funding at this stage.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Businesses of all sizes develop branding strategies to ultimately develop a distinction over competitive offerings in a customer’s mind. Your customers should be able to distill your brand’s essence in your stories, marketing activities and products. b) Create a new customer niche. LEARN HERE.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2014

Inventory is generally defined as the raw materials a business has available to manufacture finished goods or merchandise available to sell to customers. Too much inventory uses cash ineffectively, while too little inventory holds up production in a manufacturing environment or gives customers a reason to shop with the competition.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2014

Are there enough customers to achieve that? Have a question about your small business? Let’s go back to the profitability goal mentioned previously. A company goal stating: “XYZ Company will be profitable” is not very specific. How profitable? By when will profitability be reached?

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Up and Running

JULY 15, 2014

In lieu of this, try examining the idea using the following ten questions: What does this idea have to do with my business mission? Who are the customers for the new product or service? What is the value to customers they can’t get anywhere else? Include these in the next update of the company business plan.

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Up and Running

JUNE 1, 2011

Jim is The Small Business Advocate , and he does a daily show on Internet radio. Except in the marketplace, notches are called niches … As niches have increased in number, so have entrepreneurial opportunities, resulting in the most dramatic expansion of the small business sector in history. Strategy is focus.

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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. I also went through an organization called the Food Innovation Center that’s an extension of Oregon State University. They are a food science lab.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

(For more on naming, read Why and How to Rename Your Business and 10 Tips for Naming Your Startup or Small Business ). We recently spoke with Shaunda Lindsay, (who goes by the username shaunda on crowdspring ), a competitive product and business namer, about her experiences working with crowdspring.

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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. While momentum has slowed slightly, food trucks continue to be a profitable restaurant business model. To help customers find your food truck, mobile apps like Roaming Hunger and Eat St.

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Up and Running

JULY 5, 2017

Understanding your tax responsibilities can free you up to focus on all the other pieces of running your business, so avoid getting bogged down with stress and unnecessary headaches about taxes. Types of taxes for online businesses. When you start an ecommerce business , you must follow the same rules as any new small business owner.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2015

Below are tried and true tips to building a brand ambassador program that will keep your business growing and growing. Tip #1: Really listen to your customer. Running a small business is no different. For example, in it’s 44 years of business, Southwest Airlines has never furloughed its employees.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2012

I’m taking some vacation time this week and I’m actually going to stand waste deep in the Columbia River in Oregon and cast for Trout. Steve Woodruff serves as a Clarity Therapist to small businesses seeking to grow through more effective brand messaging. This post is brought to you from Steve Woodruff.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2012

I’m taking some vacation time this week and I’m actually going to stand waste deep in the Columbia River in Oregon and cast for Trout. It was at this ad agency where she taught small businesses the value of a strong foundation and how they would grow with a strong brand. Most small businesses fall down here.

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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. First, the ads were authentic and truly resonated with potential customers. Tip #3: Get your customers involved. See Also: 8 Ways to Create Real Customer Loyalty.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

Black Friday is great and all, but if you’re only going to hit the big box stores, you could be missing out on a number of unique things that small businesses are offering. Small Business Saturday is tomorrow. It was started by American Express in 2010 to encourage people to shop at small businesses.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 3, 2012

I’m taking some vacation time this week and I’m actually going to stand waste deep in the Columbia River in Oregon and cast for Trout. You as a business owner must create content that shares your story for others to then pass along. Now, every single age, demographic and potential customer for you is there.

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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. And in order to secure a loan, she needed a business plan.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 2, 2012

I’m taking some vacation time this week and I’m actually going to stand waste deep in the Columbia River in Oregon and cast for Trout. Come find her on the Copyblogger blog, where she writes extensively about content marketing for small business. I don’t care how big or how small your business is.

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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. He’s helped a lot of small businesses succeed. The customer validation phase is critical for that kind of thing. Definitely check out your area.

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Small Business Force

MAY 26, 2015

"Tradition" is the opening number of the classic Broadway musical, Fiddler on the Roof , about villagers trying to continue their past customs as the world around them changes. Then you'll know, your small business is operating out of its rear view mirror , focused on history. You need to change that before you become history.

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