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. Thanks to Marc Prosser, Fit Small Business. #11 Same with agencies or partners.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

My partner Ross Kimbarovsky and I wanted to help people from around the world access creative talent and help creative from around the world find new talent. I was proud of my performance and our rocket ship trajectory, but internal politics and personalities led to a division between the owner, me and a third equity partner.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2013

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that you’re a small business owner or an entrepreneur with a product that you’re ready to push. Hallspot’s “#hallspotgoesgreek” Giveaway: College social networking startup Hallspot hosted a targeted sign-up competition at the University of Oregon campus. Image via AOL Travel ].

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Up and Running

JULY 15, 2014

Who else is committed or partnering with this idea? New ideas are best implemented only if they improve business performance in some way such as increasing profits, using excess capacity, or improving customer service for existing customers. Growing a Business Starting a Business business ideas business planning planning process'

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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

MAY 25, 2016

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. If you get the right partners on board, it’s a win-win situation! Examples of benefit events include: Concerts. Fairs and festivals.

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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 way the SBDC works is they’ll partner you up with people who have done what you’re trying to do. They are a food science lab.

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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. ” Even so, the two partners remember that phase of their business fondly: “It was like serving dinner to 50 friends every night,” Helen said.

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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. Partner with other local businesses. Ready to start your food truck business?

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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. So, before you rebrand, make sure you carve out special time with all of your business partners. When I ran a branding agency, we worked with a startup eCommerce company.

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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. He’s helped Startup weekend events here locally. Jonathan: You can go to a weekend event.

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Up and Running

MARCH 15, 2016

She and her partner Yehua Yang took their business idea to Kickstarter, where they raised 150 percent of their goal. One thing is certain: You’ll be unlikely to receive venture capital funding, as venture capital firms generally only invest in businesses that offer the potential for a high return, quickly.

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Up and Running

JUNE 17, 2015

Sites like Meetup.com offer a vehicle for anyone to start any kind of group in your city, and with that comes a variety of networking groups, small business groups, and so on. “I It’s important to note that not all small businesses will be a good fit for an incubator or accelerator; they are generally geared toward tech businesses.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

If you are willing to put in the time, and learn the necessary farming and business skills to become the profitable small business farmer you know you could be, there’s good news. Dr. Extension services provide localized resources for most aspects of gardening and small farming. It’s doable! Learn to farm as you go.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2019

It was five fun facts about Portland, Oregon. But of course a lot of small businesses around here, so we get a lot of people who might be owners or entrepreneurs. Like I said, they’ve been a great partner, and they’ve really been part of everything that we’re doing.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 7, 2015

If you’re talking to an investor or an employee, a potential employee, a potential strategic partner, all those people are folks who you want to have at the end of your pitch feel like they need more, feel like they need more from you or hear more from you, that kind of thing. Park: Hey anything can happen in Eugene, Oregon.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Small Business. SMALL BUSINESS. more in Small Business. Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. » More.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

My partner John Frankel has a strong interest in architectural design, which the office also incorporates. BetterWorks offers large company group-buying for small businesses to take advantage of, for example, corporate gym discounts. For more ideas, see How to bring natural sunlight into a residential or commercial building.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

It’s to highlight some of the key parts of your opportunity and what makes it so amazing that whoever it is that you’re talking to, whether it’s a bank, or an investor, or a family member, or a potential business partner, that they are on the edge of their seat and they ask for your full plan, and they want to know more.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 9, 2016

How could your small business brand aim for a strong brand presence? About Guest Author: Joshua Beam is a professional writer from Norther Oregon. He’s a business owner and a freelance copywriter too. He lives with his partner of ten years, Jen and their son Cody. LEARN HERE. Connect with Joshua via Twitter.

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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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Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2018

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. But, before we dive into the data, why do we even need to look at research on business planning?

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2015

Over the past few months, 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. Action: Know your business inside and out. 3 Upton, N., J., & Felan, J.

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