This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. What changed for us was Tim Barker arrived. And he gave them all early access to our prototypes for reaction.
While Dan heads up operations, his brother Stephen is head brewer, and their team also includes directors of finance and brand, respectively. About the plan: Located in Medford, Oregon, Martin Cove Brewing Company has been a successful microbrewery for the past three years. The ColdFire Brewing team meets to plan marketing.
Operating without a website is increasingly rare, and ignoring this weakness for too long could have disastrous consequences. Botanical Bounty is an Oregon-based perennial farm that grows a variety of botanical, medicinal plants. SWOT analysis for Sedibeng Breweries. Potential strategies for growth. Build an online presence.
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….
A Lean Business Plan might be a better fit if you simply need to think through all the different aspects of your business. A Lean Plan will be shorter, and it lends itself to quick revisions, but both types follow the same general outline. Or maybe you will want to extend your practice’s hours of operation. Your operations plan.
Alaska , Wyoming , Colorado , Washington , Oregon, Maine.) Eric Ries’s astute observations about engineering and Lean Startups make the same point. Lencioni’s books are famous fables for executives to reflect on team-building, culture and operational effectiveness, but this one is about family management and very inspiring.
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.”.
They also offer resources for market research and consulting on how to efficiently scale operations as your business grows. For instance, America’s SBDC Oregon offers a variety of services for entrepreneurs, like access to Market Research Institute data, and business advising for veterans through its Veterans Mean Business program.
In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. Purringtons will operate both as a restaurant and as a shelter where cats live on-site; they even plan on adopting out the cats to interested patrons. An entrepreneurial epiphany.
Talk to the farm down the street about how they’re using their hilly, forested land to plan for a future logging operation. You can learn more about the small farm classification system from the USDA’s website, but so long as you’re within the $0-$350,000 bracket, you can guarantee your operation will be classified as a small farm business.
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.
If you’re not seeking bank or investor funding, you can probably get away with a lean business plan. Do you want to run and operate a physical storefront? In addition, the licensing you’ll need will vary by state; in Oregon, for instance, as there is no sales tax, business licenses serve as a substitute for a sales tax ID.
based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Languishing businesses were counted as survivors.
With the help of my friend Jeff, from the University of Oregon, I’ve been looking at academic research on business planning—the actual science around planning and how it impacts both startups and existing businesses. I recommend starting with a Lean Plan. Regardless of the name, it’s all forward-looking planning.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 5,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content