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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 1: Bend, Oregon Ecosystem and Entrepreneurs. The Oregon startup scene today looks very different from what it did 10 years ago. This is true whether the company is concept stage or ramping revenue.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

states for-profit companies can accept donations and nonprofit companies earn revenue, which dispels the myths that a nonprofit can’t make money, or a for-profit venture would miss out on donations. According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S. They also note that after the 2007 recession—when things looked grim for the U.S.

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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

Up and Running

Financial summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. 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. Explain your usage of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software in this section.

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Meet the Grand Prize Entrepreneurs of the BEC Boost

Up and Running

The contest was sponsored by Palo Alto Software , which provided free access to LivePlan , its cloud-based business planning software, to all of the Boost entrants. “ She sells her products in 11 stores and two restaurants in and around Oregon House, California, where Freja’s Foods currently operates. ” she said.

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I chatted with them shortly before the pitching started and found out that they are from Portland, Oregon, yay, my home state! you might have 1000 play your game, 50 of them pay, and 1 of them give you half your revenue. Urbanspoon traffic doubled year to year, 7 figure a year revenue, 3 ppl built the company. Ringtone company.

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I chatted with them shortly before the pitching started and found out that they are from Portland, Oregon, yay, my home state! You might have 1000 play your game, 50 of them pay, and 1 of them give you half your revenue. Urbanspoon traffic doubled year to year, 7 figure a year revenue, 3 ppl built the company. Ringtone company.

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How to Grow Your Business by Setting Goals [Webinar]

Up and Running

This is Sabrina Parsons, CEO of Palo Alto Software. Preferably using some sort of software tool, Excel, some sort of spreadsheet. You could be profitable, because you’re owed a $100,000 in accounts receivable, you’re owed that, but it’s book revenue, it comes out of your pocket if you do not have a cold hard cash in hand.