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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

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Your executive summary will include the following sections: Who you are: Your business name, location, and contact information. . 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. Marketing and sales plan. Your operations plan.

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10 Classic Business Naming Mistakes

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Legal isn’t the whole issue with names. Lots of legal names work fine until you grow and run into somebody else with the same name, in the same business area, who had it first. But when they started to grow, Victoria’s Secret would have had legal right to force them to come up with a new name.

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I couldn’t resist, so I put my name in the hat. I chatted with them shortly before the pitching started and found out that they are from Portland, Oregon, yay, my home state! Sales from a major tech blog. Software strategist. I saw a posting on the Women 2.0 I had won. Congratulations to them. Ringtone company.

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5 Shark Tank Lessons Every Startup Should Understand

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I’m a member of an angel investment group based where I live in Oregon. Investors like valuation to relate to actual business numbers, such as sales, gross margin (price less direct costs), and burn rate or fixed costs. If you sell products it’s easy to imagine gearing up to make a whole lot more of them if sales grow.

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What No One Ever Tells You About Business Failures

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” Palo Alto Software started out as an Infoplan in 1983, a DBA. a Delaware corporation that sprung up when the sole proprietorship died, and that Delaware corporation became Palo Alto Software, Inc., Palo Alto Software, Inc., That supposedly died if you look at the statistics. But actually there was an Infoplan, Inc.,

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I couldn’t resist, so I put my name in the hat. I chatted with them shortly before the pitching started and found out that they are from Portland, Oregon, yay, my home state! Sales from a major tech blog. Software strategist. I saw a posting on the Women 2.0 I had won. Congratulations to them. Ringtone company.

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How I Started a Gluten-Free Cookie Company: With Josh Fegles of Jude’s Foods

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The company is named after their son Jude, who was experiencing health problems before it was determined that he should be on a gluten-free diet. ” That’s what got me connected with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center and Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center.

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