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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

Startup Hiring : How to attract, hire and retain the best people. Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Narrative and Comms Design by Portland State University. It’s also beautifully designed. Khan Academy.

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Taking Service To The Stratosphere: 12 Keys To Creating Uplifting Service In Today’s Marketplace

YoungUpstarts

Many Partners, Many Missions, One Changi.” These important considerations are made during the hiring process at Google and Zappos, respectively. Each new hire either makes your culture stronger or makes your challenge to build a great service culture a little harder. Every new hire sends a message to everyone else.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

My business partner and I wanted the new name to reflect our striving to be a “Kingdom Business” discovering what unique role God wants us to play in the local and global marketplaces. I thought of names like, Ranking Results Northwest, Portland Optimization Strategies, or Portland SEO Works. 8 – A Running Joke.

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High-performance culture: MJ Vigil on hiring diverse talent in an increasingly multicultural world

Transformify

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. The Portland native is happiest when spending time with family, which includes her Seattle public school teacher husband, her adult son and their sweet cat Alice.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

And when — if ever — do you need to hire your own full- or part-time, in-house dev to work on your website and applications? If you’ve got tips for other business owners or want to share your experiences with hiring developers, please leave us a note in the comments section.

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Google Finally Weaving Local Strategy :: Small Business Marketing.

Duct Tape Marketing

This week they slyly unleashed what could only be called City Pages – hat tip to the always informative David Mihm for tracking this down – City Pages, like this example for Portland , are a necessary piece in the puzzle if they are to compete with Groupon, but they also further the importance of claiming and optimizing a Place Page, appear (..)

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How to Start a Brewery

Up and Running

Now we are growing based on the projections our wholesale partners give us annually in sales. And all this must be tied together with ongoing communications with staff, business partners, vendors, and other key people affecting your business. Key man insurance via a buy-sell agreement (if the brewery has multiple partners).

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