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Willamette Angel Conference Invests More than $450K

Up and Running

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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Media Rush Good News Bad News for This Startup

Up and Running

Some times things just come together right for a startup. I’ve been following Eugene OR electric car startup Arcimoto for some time now. and that’s every startup’s dream right? Tags: entrepreneurship startup stories. I like the key founder a lot, and I like the strategy. So what’s not to like.

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17 Entrepreneurs Share their Favorite Quotes

Hearpreneur

” This was a statement told to me years ago by a former client of mine, Chuck Kaady, owner of Kaady Car Washes, located in Oregon. For most startups and small businesses, it’s simply going to be a fact that you have limited energy and resources. Thanks to Joseph Robison, Green Flag Digital. #13

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Starting a Nonprofit: Chapter 1 of The ‘RIDE Eugene’ Story

Up and Running

In Oregon, nearly 30 percent of all traffic fatalities are related to drunk driving. How to fund a nonprofit startup: LivePlan and Indiegogo. And even if the intoxicated customer decides to call their own taxi for a ride home, where do they leave their car overnight, and how do they return to claim their car the next day?

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What Is a Benefit Corporation?

Up and Running

Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.

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Top Five Branding Strategies You Can Leverage in 2017

Brandanew

The anti-brand branding strategy can also appeal to consumers interested in green issues and anti-capitalist movements. About Guest Author: Joshua Beam is a professional writer from Norther Oregon. b) Create a new customer niche. These customers tend to identify big brands with environmental destruction and unethical practices.

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 23, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. We can make green, yellow, orange, red, and everything in between, simply by changing the size of these particles. Credit: UbiQD, Inc.