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

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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.

Oregon 60
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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?

Oregon 60
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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. 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. We got engaged eventually and moved to Eugene. We called it a Picky Bar.

Oregon 60
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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Small Business. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. SMALL BUSINESS. more in Small Business. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart.