YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

Another is Google Ventures, which works with portfolio companies full-time on design, recruiting, marketing, and engineering. Network Redux, a managed-service provider in Portland, Oregon, serves more than 1,100 clients globally, but could not secure credit after the 2008 credit crisis despite a 100 percent year-over-year growth rate.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Our technical project manager Anders Stadum says these Sharpie Fine Point Pens are his favorite, and they would make a great gift for any entrepreneur—maybe with a few Moleskines? Pick up some beans from your local roaster (is my Portland showing yet?) Design-it-yourself button down shirts. Some great pens. A Hydroflask.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Although we started in Portland, Oregon, we now have members in every state with many meetup launches planned for 2020.We’re Thirdly, we invested in marketing automation, Apps, and artificial intelligence tools for lead management, nurturing, social media, and other functions. Thanks to Gwen Montoya, The MOB Nation !

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

The Executive Summary for a bank lending plan should be a literal summary of the entire business plan, with a paragraph roughly devoted to the product/service, market, industry, marketing, and management. Focus on your designated market area instead. The latest market research is crucial – but choose carefully.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Zite CEO Mark Johnson (who recently sold the company to CNN for more than $20 million) stressed that when it comes to acquisitions, you don't want to be empty handed with a bunch of unfulfilled promises if management changes or if there's less follow-through than you'd expected. Hire Hackers, Hustlers And Hipsters. Look Beyond The Valley.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

And, it’s important that everyone, CEO, designer and account manager alike, be a part of it. ” So, other than tossing a new coat of paint on the wall, how do you go about designing the kind of workspace that gets the creative juices flowing? Powell’s bookstore in Portland, Oregon has done just this.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

Before moving to Bend last year, my career took me from engineering development roles at defense contractors in the 80’s to product management and executive marketing roles in companies like Qualcomm in the 90’s, to the world of venture capital at several firms including Bay Partners, Formative Ventures and Vulcan Ventures.

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Up and Running

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. I spoke with wife and husband team Kristen and Sergio Castillo, whose cat cafe, Purringtons, is set to open in Portland at the end of January. An entrepreneurial epiphany. Kristen says.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Zite CEO Mark Johnson (who recently sold the company to CNN for more than $20 million) stressed that when it comes to acquisitions, you don't want to be empty handed with a bunch of unfulfilled promises if management changes or if there's less follow-through than you'd expected.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 3, 2019

It’s much easier to develop a product and design marketing content and campaigns when you know exactly who the customer is and how they will react to different kinds of marketing. User personas are critical for companies that designing and customizing their own products or services. a product that gets you customers). Don’t be generic.

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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. ” Your food truck should have a cohesive design, a clever name, an established brand, and a unique offering. The craze for mobile eats has been on the rise.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 16, 2017

I had a game plan to manage all the events and general hootenanny of the sh0w (win). What I’m about to tell you really crystalized from talking with a super smart toy designer and product manager flying back together to Detroit on Tuesday. It was further cemented seeing a former colleague’s thoughts on Facebook.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Zite CEO Mark Johnson (who recently sold the company to CNN for more than $20 million) stressed that when it comes to acquisitions, you don’t want to be empty handed with a bunch of unfulfilled promises if management changes or if there’s less follow-through than you’d expected. Hire Hackers, Hustlers And Hipsters.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

Like many parents these days, Josh and his wife Bethany realized that it would be a battle keeping the house designated into gluten-free and non-gluten-free areas, so they all got on the bandwagon and kicked gluten to keep things simple. How did you manage to find a gluten-free space to make the cookies? A little bit of both.

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Up and Running

JUNE 3, 2011

Frank Chimero , a designer and author in Portland, Oregon, keeps a collection of articles that inspire him to make things. Kai Davis is a marketing manager for Palo Alto Software. Text Playlist. I keep what I perceive to be a more valuable, important morgue file: one made of the best writing on the web I come across.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 15, 2016

I’m a big fan of IPAs (I live in Portland, Oregon, after all), and so the IPA Beer of the Month Club would be a subscription service right up my alley. Canva —free design program (great for creating logos, social media graphics, and more). Trello —an excellent project management system. Graze Box has you covered.

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Up and Running

MAY 18, 2015

As I write this, I am currently sitting in my home office, overlooking my sleepy little neighborhood in Southeast Portland. 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.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

Helmed by husband-and-wife team Stuart (Director of Sales and Marketing) and Emily (Managing Director, Board Chair, and Chief Ice Cream Inventor) Philips, during 2015 and 2016 Red Wagon is preparing for a big “regional-national” leap in production and distribution—in part by taking advantage of a new public investing program.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 7, 2023

Running a small business can be quite challenging, so it’s important to know what you need to do to keep the challenges manageable or get them out of the way altogether. Personalize these goals so that you end up with a manageable set of goals that will be possible to meet, and you may know the best way to go about marketing.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

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). Managing your own distribution is ideal. Your initial system will likely be seven to 15 barrels. he explains.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2019

John Jantsch: So, in preparation for this, because you do the conference and have your business in the city of Portland. Portland, Maine. John Jantsch: Yeah, I was going to go there, because I did a little search, I said, “Fun facts about Portland, Maine.” It was five fun facts about Portland, Oregon.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

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). Managing your own distribution is ideal. Figure out how much you’ll need to have in production at a time to be profitable.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

” I ordered a CD from CD Baby, I think it was, and they sent the most hilarious shipping notice about the party they were having in downtown Portland, as they lovingly sent my package off to the post office. People submit their designs, they vote on them. I mean, that just made the experience more fun. It was an email.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

Lastly, the golden rule of simplicity is to add plenty of whitespace to every design. Shanelle Mullin puts it like this: Conversion optimizers are in the business of attention management, just like magicians. 10 Portland Brews You Should Drink Right Now: Ten Reasons The Beers In Your Fridge Right Now Just Don’t Cut It” (AskMen).

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2011

We needed to have a number of logos and icons designed for our various apps, but it was difficult figuring out where to in order to find good design talent. Ultimately, we managed to land a big contract within short order, which managed to easily cover the cost of the box. People seem to love it! If so, what and why?

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. To date, no one has managed to provide a conclusive answer to this issue.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Here in Oregon, we’ve got some in Portland that are really great and then this article talks about some here in Eugene, Oregon which are doing well but fairly new. We were going to do to this fund thing that people can design T-shirts and people vote on it and then whichever one won, it’s like, “Someone has now done that.”

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 23, 2013

Next let’s take a look at examples of companies who have managed to humanize business – have connected with their customers on a totally different level, developed real relationships with them. ” Later it turned out that the customer was a manager of a multi-million dollar hedge fund in New York. You can’t.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

However, as I started designing 1M/1M, it was clear to me that what we have learned and fine-tuned here at such a furious pace, needs to be encapsulated and made available to the larger world of entrepreneurs. Michael Goldman, from Portland, Maine, presented Wealth Gathering , a social gaming consumer app for managing your financial health.

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