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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

Also make sure that you’re communicating well with any web developers or designers you hire. Have appropriate expectations, listen to the professionals in your employ and don’t micro-manage a design or development project. Let developers develop, designers design and you - do your own business.

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One Little Ice Cream Cart That’s About to Have Big Growth

Up and Running

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. No kidding.

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An Introduction to Entrepreneurship

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Designed for entrepreneurs who are either starting a new business or growing an existing one, Palo Alto Software’s Start, Run & Grow Your Business: An Introduction to Entrepreneurship course is currently being taught at colleges and universities around the country. Congratulations to Spring 2011 Graduates!

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

crowdSPRING Blog

The amendment introduced by Oregon Representative Greg Walden, specifically prohibits the FCC from enforcing its Net Neutrality rules , passed late last year. Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness). These rules would effectively maintain a level playing field for small companies, startups, and entrepreneurs.

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

Up and Running

After doing my MBA at the University of Oregon, I decided I wanted to try to become a professional triathlete. That was in 2011, late 2010. Our first employees were actually University of Oregon students that came in and made the bars in our house. Did you have experience with web design? We called it a Picky Bar.

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How to Start a Brewery

Up and Running

A new system might be subject to delays, especially if demand from other breweries is high, but you’ll be able to design to your needs and specifications, and you’ll have support when issues arise (and they will). and the fourth largest in its home state of Oregon, after powerhouse brands such as Deschutes, Rogue, and Full Sail.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Additionally, Microsoft will provide its startups with four to eight months of advice, design and development help, discounted access to Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace APIs, and introductions to potential partners or customers. The Fund is the brainchild of Sood, who joined Microsoft in January, 2011. Web Design Software.

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