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Willamette Angel Conference Invests More than $450K

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Yesterday’s Willamette Angel Conference (WAC) 2013 event invested more than $465,000 in four Oregon startups, highlighted by more than $250,000 in Portland-based Sonivate , which has developed a fingertip-mounted ultrasound probe that enables imaging while leaving both hands free to do work with simultaneous tactile feedback. .

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My Favorite 2014 Trend is Boomer-Millenial Partnerships

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I see it happening, anecdotally, both around my local community in Eugene, Oregon, and around my online community in social media, LivePlan, and so forth. Financing a Business Partnerships Starting a Business 2014 small business trends smallbizlabs Steve King' I love this idea. I see examples of exactly what Steve is predicting.

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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

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Here’s a brief example: The problem : There is a lack of affordable pediatric and gynecological care available in coastal areas of Lane County, Oregon. The solution : Dr. Gardner plans to open Ocean Lane Outpatient Care to serve smaller Oregon coastal communities scattered outside of major towns with major hospitals.

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What’s an SBDC and Why You Want to Know

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For a class on bookkeeping, marketing, business planning, getting financed, call your nearest SBDC. That’s for questions about starting up, establishing ownership, finding financing, dealing with permits and legal requirements, even online marketing and search engine optimization. for $49-$99. I like these people.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

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Parallel6 is already clocking over $1 million in revenue and is looking to enhance its customer acquisition and also raise some financing. Misty Denson from Portland, Oregon, presented NameYourRentNow.com. Statisco Economic Analytics. NameYourRentNow.com. She had contacted me via AngelList, asking me for feedback on her business.

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The Next Generation Of Funding For The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs

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Startups are hungry for credit, but banks and other financial institutions have never been stricter with their financing parameters. They’re using metrics that are often unworkable in the current business environment, causing growing businesses to look elsewhere for capital and increasingly towards alternative forms of financing.

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Meet the Grand Prize Entrepreneurs of the BEC Boost

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She sells her products in 11 stores and two restaurants in and around Oregon House, California, where Freja’s Foods currently operates. From left to right: Ken Freeman, Freja Nelson and Mike Roessler. “I did not think I would win but I was really trying to win,” Freja wrote me in an email.