YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

Similarly, Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses program is a $500 million investment to provide entrepreneurs with access to education, financial capital and business support services. Such programs help early-stage companies get the capital they need to fuel growth, especially when banks aren’t lending.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

An employee at Red Wagon Creamery serves up a scoop. Beginning as a small red cart in Eugene, Oregon, today Red Wagon Creamery has a downtown storefront, local retail distribution, and online ordering. However, by working closely with the Oregon Department of Agriculture and learning through their own research, Red Wagon found its way.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2014

Plus, demonstrating through your company’s actions — not just your mission statement or website copy — that you care about employees, customers, and society in general will help you to build tremendous customer loyalty. Southwest cares so much about employees and customers that LUV is the company’s stock symbol. Southwest Airlines.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

You're an employee even though you're not. Well, DeskTeam360 has revolutionized the outsourcing game with their insourcing program that eliminates all those frustrations and excuses. Well, again, I appreciate you stopping by and the next time, hopefully I'm in Hood River, Oregon. Yes, exactly. So that's the bubbles and biz.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

You need to have rock-solid expectations of in-office or at-home work hours and specific skill sets your new employee should have — from languages and platforms to design and UX/UI abilities. Twitter Now Has 300 Employees Cloudera Secures $25M in Funding PayPal Announces Micropayment System. 10,000 Websites Integrate with Facebo.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

Many internship programs were filled with disaster after disaster in 2013. Now, many organizations like Conde Nast and Fox Searchlight have had to shut down their programs all together or pay up. Even giants like Conde Nast couldn’t face the heat: The company decided to nix their program altogether. You read that right.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The program is more than just business plans, although we do a lot of help with that,” says Charles “Tee” Rowe, president and CEO of America’s SBDC , the national organization that oversees local SBDCs. They can also help startups think through things like how to grow and when to hire their first employee. Business planning.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2018

It baffles me when companies have products that their own employees don’t use. The dissertation that I ended up submitting for my MA program actually grew out of the seed of a story that my sister had written while in high school. Even if you work for someone else, try to get into the habit of finding the pain points.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Some hire employees only during the busy times and lay them off when the season ends. Check with your banker about programs available. Your local Small Business Development Center (SBDC) office also has information about programs offered by the U.S. Some find alternative business options for the slower part of the year.

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Up and Running

APRIL 19, 2016

If you don’t have buy-in from your partners, your employees, and your customers, you just went through a whole lot of something for a whole lot of nothing. Tip #2: Include your employees. The best rebrands come from the bottom up and get all employees involved. See Also: Want Your Team Engaged? Then Lead Them.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2015

Below are tried and true tips to building a brand ambassador program that will keep your business growing and growing. Tip #2: Make your employee or sub-contractor a hero. Southwest Airlines knew early on that their employees were key to succeeding in a highly competitive marketplace, and so they made their employees the real heroes.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Will you only brew ales, or will you also make space for lagers, a barrel-aging program, and so on? and the fourth largest in its home state of Oregon, after powerhouse brands such as Deschutes, Rogue, and Full Sail. A third location, a pub and pizzeria, is scheduled to open on the University of Oregon campus in 2016.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 11, 2012

Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods is a Milwaukie, Oregon company that produces a wide range of all natural flours, meals and grains. Any employee that had more than three years of service was immediately fully vested. Bob's Red Mill founder Bob Moore. But, the real kicker for me came when I heard this story a few years ago.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

” That’s what got me connected with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center and Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center. The class was about a three month class, and then after it was over I took those next steps to get my LLC and my bakery license from the Oregon Department of Agriculture.

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Up and Running

JULY 9, 2013

My mentor was my dad, who owned a small business in Milwaukie, Oregon. Today I’m CEO of Oregon’s second largest state-chartered credit union, and I love going to work every day, making a difference in the lives of our members, employees and the communities we serve. He was not surprised when I chose to work in credit unions.

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Up and Running

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. I had to hire an employee!” was heating up, a contractual obligation that the school district had made with its cafeteria supplier put an end to the popular program.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2017

Today I’m thrilled to share the story of my long-time friend and Kansas Citian John Couture who is the founder of the Bier Station , as a part of the “Amex Welcomed” program with @americanexpress , which is showcasing the people behind our favorite local businesses that welcome Amex. I went through the Kaufman Urban Entrepreneur Program.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Most small businesses and startups that are looking to grow— hire a new employee , or buy a new piece of equipment, or open a new location —need to think hard about cash flow, or making sure they have enough money in the bank to meet payroll and other financial obligations. Martin Cove Brewing Company.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Tired of working for someone else, in 2010 they opened a Northwest-style-meets-Southern-cuisine food cart in downtown Eugene, Oregon. The University of Oregon marketing department also did a survey for us to see what beers and food worked best in a 50-mile radius. Stephen: Employee relations. It’s getting easier too.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the XOXO Festival in Portland Oregon. In the five months since licking off the program 5 of the 9 participating companies have increased their revenue at least 2x and, in some cases we’re seeing companies that will finish the year up 6x or greater. And that’s not a joke. So we have.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2016

As MehtaFor continued to grow in 2016, expanding pro bono services and the trainee program, receiving the support of an Oregon-based grant created just for entrepreneurs making a living with their craft was tremendously appreciated. Thanks to Jessica Mehta, MehtaFor ! #5 5 – Growing the Company. 8 – $500k in Sales.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Human Resources and Conflict Resolution (22:32): Read more: Oregon’s New Sick Leave Law. Jonathan: Yeah, let’s be realistic, you’re going to have some problems in your business, whether it’s with how you’re manufacturing your product, how your employees are dealing with each other and with you.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. Both studies counted only incorporated companies with employees. The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., Comcast Corp., entrepreneurship.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 7, 2015

Do you have one for an investor and then one for new employees? If you’re talking to an investor or an employee, a potential employee, a potential strategic partner, all those people are folks who you want to have at the end of your pitch feel like they need more, feel like they need more from you or hear more from you, that kind of thing.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

We’ve also used employees dressed in a banana suit to walk around the boardwalk and promote the stand. Peter: Yeah, and you’ve got employees and other things. We have George Michael, his cousin, Maeby, and then there might be a period of time where we bring on a third employee, T-Bone. Peter: Great.

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