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MARCH 9, 2012

At Bplans, we’re proud of our home state of Oregon. But there’s another way we’re unique, and that’s our abundance of business plan competitions and angel investment groups. ” In the last five years, angel groups in Oregon have funded 35 companies to the tun of $17.5 million. .”

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AUGUST 6, 2013

The contest was sponsored by Palo Alto Software , which provided free access to LivePlan , its cloud-based business planning software, to all of the Boost entrants. “ So who were the hard-working businessmen and women behind the winning business plans? . “My business really, really needed this break.”

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MARCH 18, 2010

Our group is reviewing companies and will award a six-figure investment in May at an event held May 13 in Eugene, Oregon, my home town. This rules out a lot of good business. For example, our group has an explicit bias for Oregon companies and especially companies from the Southern Willamette Valley.

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JUNE 29, 2010

And they offer one-on-one counseling, workshops and classes–a lot of good front-lines resources to help real people manage real businesses. For a class on bookkeeping, marketing, business planning, getting financed, call your nearest SBDC. for $49-$99. I like these people.

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MAY 24, 2011

Tweet The Palo Alto Software team is at the National Restaurant Association Conference this week and Bplans is featuring articles and resources for restaurant owners. Tim’s note: this is an excerpt from The Plan As You Go Business Plan , posted here with permission of Entrepreneur Press, the publisher. Twitter.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Business team and spouses Colleen and Stephen Sheehan started small, then went big. Tired of working for someone else, in 2010 they opened a Northwest-style-meets-Southern-cuisine food cart in downtown Eugene, Oregon. We wondered how we could be part of that, so we wrote an amazing business plan with the help of Palo Alto Software.

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MAY 18, 2011

Tweet (Ed note: this is an excerpt from The Plan As You Go Business Plan , posted here with permission of Entrepreneur Press, the publisher. It’s here today because we are focusing on the restaurant business this week in honor of the National Restaurant Association trade show in Chicago). Plan as you go.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

UW-Madison Small Business Development Center (SBDC) celebrating SBDC Day. Starting a new small business? Looking for some professional consulting to help you think through your business plan or your strategies for growth? Your local Small Business Development Center (SBDC) can help. Business planning.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

For my work, I am constantly working on new features for our business planning application as well as new layouts for our web sites. Here at Palo Alto Software , we fully embraced Basecamp this year and use it to run all of our projects. It’s free for all platforms and I highly recommend it.

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APRIL 11, 2011

I was there last Thursday to hear these two pitches , two of the best from 16 one-minute pitches at the University of Oregon’s New Venture Championship. The first, from Visiray , a team representing the University of Oregon: And the second one, KarmaGoat , from UCLA. Tim is the originator of plan-as-you-go business planning.

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JANUARY 14, 2015

Palo Alto Software HQ in Eugene, Oregon. I’m Noah and I’m COO here at Palo Alto Software. In case you didn’t know, Palo Alto Software is the great company behind Bplans. Our goal has always been to help entrepreneurs succeed in business.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2013

In its goal to make the world a better place for mothers and babies worldwide, Maternova has enjoyed landmark achievements since winning LivePlan’s $10,000 Boost business plan competition. About Palo Alto Software, Inc: . Palo Alto Software, Inc., Eugene, OR (PRWEB) February 14, 2013. Visit [link] to learn more.

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JULY 15, 2011

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.

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MAY 11, 2011

Tweet Having just completed my spring business plan season — three big business plan contests and our angel group investment — I think it’s a good time to poke some holes in several damaging and far-too-common myths about startups. Tim is the originator of plan-as-you-go business planning.

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APRIL 11, 2014

Or they’ve been purchased by a larger business or two businesses combine, and these are like successful exits in growth which shows up as a business dying.” ” Palo Alto Software started out as an Infoplan in 1983, a DBA. So there you see another business dying, but it hadn’t really died.

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MARCH 11, 2015

.” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. She is regularly invited to participate as a judge for business plan competitions, as well as speak on topics including entrepreneurship, angel investing, social media, and authentic self promotion.

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JULY 20, 2011

Tim Berry, the founder of Palo Alto Software and a personal friend, was just nominated as a Small Business Influencer in the Guru category on SmallBizTrends.com. Everyone at Palo Alto Software would love to see him win. Tim is the Founder and Chief Blogging Officer of Palo Alto Software. Can I ask you for a quick favor?

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AUGUST 20, 2013

In Oregon, nearly 30 percent of all traffic fatalities are related to drunk driving. Jonathan is doing RIDE’s forecasting and financial planning with LivePlan , a cloud-based business planning software. “I’ve used it before for business planning,” he said.

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MAY 31, 2012

Jesse Thomas, of Springfield, Oregon, was an amateur triathlete. ” When a Picky Club member suggested LivePlan, Jesse signed up and used the online business planning software to create financial projections and start thinking specifically and strategically about the future of his company.

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MAY 18, 2015

I’m home at 11am on a weekday because I work remotely; I am employed by Palo Alto Software, but as they are located in Eugene, Oregon, and I am currently living in Portland, I am rarely in the office. Ben Patterson, our Senior Web Designer here at Palo Alto Software, suggests keeping freelance assignments specific and narrow in focus.

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MARCH 20, 2012

This is why I love the startup environment – there’s always something new to address and it keeps me and my team on our toes” One of the biggest challenges the team at RealLead faced during start up was recruiting skilled programmers, a growing problem in Eugene, Oregon where RealLead is based.

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JUNE 1, 2011

(disclosure: Palo Alto Software is a sponsor of the Small Business Advocate radio show). Tim Berry is the founder of Palo Alto Software, a co-founder of Borland International, and a recognized expert in business planning. Tim is the originator of plan-as-you-go business planning. Twitter.

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APRIL 27, 2011

Tim Berry is the founder of Palo Alto Software, a co-founder of Borland International, and a recognized expert in business planning. Tim is the originator of plan-as-you-go business planning. He has an MBA from Stanford and degrees with honors from the University of Oregon and the University of Notre Dame.

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APRIL 27, 2016

The research is conclusive: A study completed by the University of Oregon showed that companies that prepare business plans are 20% more likely to grow their business, and twice as likely to secure investment capital than those that don’t. The M3 Planning Strategy Benchmark of 280 U.S.

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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. To facilitate the fast sales growth and remodel the Ume Grill kitchen, Helen needed to secure a small business loan. And in order to secure a loan, she needed a business plan.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Back in my consulting days, and in the early days of Palo Alto Software, I had a chance to look at franchising in depth. MacDonalds did a custom business plan version of Business Plan Pro, back in the 1990s.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I saw a business plan for a high-end boutique for men’s underwear, catering mainly to the wives and partners and significant others of relatively well-to-do men. I’ve got a pots and kettles problem with this one, because my wife and I named our company Palo Alto Software, while we were in Palo Alto, California.

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MARCH 2, 2010

You should plan, reduce uncertainty, go ahead with caution and awareness, not courage. Yes, there was a point in the history of Palo Alto Software at which my wife and I had three mortgages and $65,000 in credit card debt. We had moved from Palo Alto, California to Eugene, Oregon. That’s not something we’re proud of.

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JULY 31, 2014

Here, we discuss the importance of clearly defined goals, and how these goals can help you grow you business and achieve financial success. This is Sabrina Parsons, CEO of Palo Alto Software. Preferably using some sort of software tool, Excel, some sort of spreadsheet. I’m going to introduce to you our guest from MasterCard.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Since then, Anvil has achieved Fastest Growing, Most Admired and Most Philosophic Companies in Oregon. Worse, the publisher had no plans to publish the novels as mass market paperbacks. Believing 100% in the potential of these two books, I recruited a great team of key individuals and put together a business plan.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. If the Castillos had planned to open any old restaurant or cafe, they would have found a vast number of resources on how to do so, from restaurant business plans to advice from industry veterans.

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JULY 14, 2015

Or what if a new brilliant idea that you hadn’t considered when you were planning emerges? Build in fluidity to your business plans. I’d implemented a business plan including marketing, engagement, sales strategy and realized a few months in that it wasn’t servicing a key influence or in the sales process.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

In addition to creating a solid business plan, getting incorporated and a whole host of other things, a lot of your time will probably be taken up thinking about how to fund your new venture. Cyrus Roepers, a full-time entrepreneur with a SaaS startup, used his food blog as a way to generate income for his software startup.

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JULY 3, 2015

Listen to Episode 7: Show notes: We debate whether you should stick to the plan or change it – (:31). Read also: Should You Stick to the Plan or Change It? Check out Tim Berry’s book, Lean Business Planning , coming soon. Check out Lara Galloway’s new book, Moms Mean Business. – (9:47).

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JUNE 17, 2015

Check out your university’s business college website; they are likely to have an entrepreneurship center or mentorship program (living in Oregon I’ve naturally focused on two of my local universities, but you’ll likely find similar programs for your university). Your local Small Business Development Center: Through the U.S.

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