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

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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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#TrackThis Episode 4: How Do You Measure Happiness?

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Matt : Hi, and welcome to episode number four of #TrackThis, small business tracking tips from CEOs. In Oregon, there’s an organization that actually does anonymous surveys, and then comes up with a list of the hundred best companies to work for in Oregon, which Palo Alto Software has been a part of for many years.

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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. Jason Carriere, owner of Falling Sky Fermentation Supply Shop and co-founder of Falling Sky Brewing, has gone through many twists and turns since Falling Sky opened its first Eugene, Oregon brewpub location in 2012.

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The Next Generation Of Funding For The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs

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They’re using metrics that are often unworkable in the current business environment, causing growing businesses to look elsewhere for capital and increasingly towards alternative forms of financing. Big companies that invest in small businesses play an important role in creating jobs.

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How to Grow Your Business by Setting Goals [Webinar]

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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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Small business and startup issues: net neutrality and H.R. 1

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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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The Science of Success Through Business Planning

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That same Swedish study reported that having a business plan reduces the rate of business failure by 60%. small businesses found that at that time, unfortunately, very few businesses were planning at all, those that did were failing less often. While a 2001 study of U.S. So, does it really work?