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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

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This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. Image credits: Flickr, goincase.

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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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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.

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An Introduction to Entrepreneurship

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This course takes students through the process of conceiving, creating, managing, and growing their own business. The goal is to provide a solid background of important concepts for anybody starting or running a business. Congratulations to Spring 2011 Graduates! The core curriculum has been taught at the University of Oregon.

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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.

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.

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

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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. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. » More.