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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 1: Bend, Oregon Ecosystem and Entrepreneurs. as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. ——-.

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

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These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. About the plan: Located in Medford, Oregon, Martin Cove Brewing Company has been a successful microbrewery for the past three years. Initial plans are to produce three main lines of beer.

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How to Start a Brewery

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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? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar?

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Proven Strategies to Increase Your Nonprofit’s Revenue

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The Mohawk Valley Metric Century —a bike ride event in Eugene, Oregon—is an example of a benefit event held annually to raise money for Oregon Supported Living Program’s Arts & Culture Program. Barring event expenses, all proceeds are contributed to the aforementioned charitable institution.

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What’s the Secret to Your Success? With Jesse Thomas of Picky Bars

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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. See Also The 5 Metrics You Need to Track for Your Subscription Business to Succeed. “Now we did about 1.1

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From Food Cart to Award-Winning Restaurant: A Secret to Success Story

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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. Colleen: Currently it’s all about distribution.

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