Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 1: Bend, Oregon Ecosystem and Entrepreneurs. Bend, Oregon is an ideal case study because of its size, location and entrepreneurial characteristics. Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 8, 2019

Bplans offers a library of more than 500 sample business plans across a wide variety of industries. Here’s how to get the most of any sample business plan. What is a sample business plan? A sample business plan gives you an idea of how another small business or startup in your industry built their own plan.

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JUNE 29, 2010

If you’re serious about starting a business, growing a business that already exists or managing your business better, and you’re in the United States, then you ought to know where the nearest SBDC is. That stands for Small Business Development Center. There are about 1,000 of them in the United States.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2013

3 Website Trends That Customers (and Business Owners) Will Love written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Andy Hayes – Enjoy! Andy Hayes is a creative web producer based in sunny Portland, Oregon.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Small Business. Computer Software. SMALL BUSINESS. more in Small Business. Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. Small Business » Subscriber Content Read Preview.

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Up and Running

MARCH 12, 2010

I was hoping to be able to get to New York for this year’s Small Business Summit 2010 , but I’m here now and have to leave today to return to Oregon. This means that I may have tickets for you, for free, if you want to email Palo Alto Software (email hello at paloalto.com) with a request.

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Up and Running

JULY 20, 2011

Tim Berry, the founder of Palo Alto Software and a personal friend, was just nominated as a Small Business Influencer in the Guru category on SmallBizTrends.com. Everyone at Palo Alto Software would love to see him win. Tim is the Founder and Chief Blogging Officer of Palo Alto Software. Tim Berry, via Crunch Base.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

Each week we discuss the latest news, resources, and advice for entrepreneurs and small business owners. In this week’s episode, we use the Bluth’s Frozen Banana Stand to show you how to write a business plan in under an hour. Content Marketing for Small Businesses (feat. Arrested Development.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Small businesses which are built on the Internet and dependent on it for their livelihoods are threatened by an amendment to the spending bill passed by the House last week. The amendment introduced by Oregon Representative Greg Walden, specifically prohibits the FCC from enforcing its Net Neutrality rules , passed late last year.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Portland, Oregon-based Shwood was founded by Eric Singer, whose inspiration for starting the company came from hand-carving a pair of sunglass frames one day out of a Madrone tree limb from his own backyard, adding a rusty pair of cabinet hinges and lenses from a corner store. America’s Favorite Small Business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

You get unlimited graphic designs, website funnels, C R M, email automation integrations, automations, really anything that requires you to log into software. We use DeskTeam360 every day in our business, and so I've negotiated you a 10% deal. John Jantsch (18:43): It's been a lot of fun. So that's the bubbles and biz.

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2012

Congressman Peter DeFazio (Oregon, D) stopped by the Palo Alto Software office yesterday and discussed the important role small businesses play in their local economies.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2015

Palo Alto Software HQ in Eugene, Oregon. I’m Noah and I’m COO here at Palo Alto Software. In case you didn’t know, Palo Alto Software is the great company behind Bplans. Our goal has always been to help entrepreneurs succeed in business. So, I invite you to ask me your questions.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Because this document is so important and because entrepreneurship is so popular, there are numerous books, guides and websites that offer advice on how to do it, how to write a plan , what software you should use to do so and how best to approach the planning process. While a 2001 study of U.S. So, does it really work?

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2014

We all have goals for our business, but sometimes we forget how important it is to clearly define these goals. This is especially true when it comes to financial goal setting for small businesses, where often financial goals are only vaguely defined or based too heavily on assumptions. Small Business segment.

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Up and Running

JULY 15, 2011

Designed for entrepreneurs who are either starting a new business or growing an existing one, Palo Alto Software’s Start, Run & Grow Your Business: An Introduction to Entrepreneurship course is currently being taught at colleges and universities around the country. The corporate sponsor for the class was Citibank.

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JUNE 1, 2011

Jim is The Small Business Advocate , and he does a daily show on Internet radio. Except in the marketplace, notches are called niches … As niches have increased in number, so have entrepreneurial opportunities, resulting in the most dramatic expansion of the small business sector in history. Strategy is focus.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

” That’s what got me connected with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center and Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center. I also went through an organization called the Food Innovation Center that’s an extension of Oregon State University. They are a food science lab.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

software (freeware), which adjusts your screen color and intensity to the time of day. Another option for data input is dictation software and microphone, such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking (~$50). BetterWorks offers large company group-buying for small businesses to take advantage of, for example, corporate gym discounts.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2013

There was nothing else like it in Eugene, Oregon, but Helen was sure that if they could just try it, consumers in Eugene would love it as much as she did. To facilitate the fast sales growth and remodel the Ume Grill kitchen, Helen needed to secure a small business loan. And in order to secure a loan, she needed a business plan.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. Every model, it doesn’t matter what you are.

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Up and Running

MARCH 2, 2010

Yes, there was a point in the history of Palo Alto Software at which my wife and I had three mortgages and $65,000 in credit card debt. This is typical in small business – growth can cause cash flow problems. We had moved from Palo Alto, California to Eugene, Oregon. We’d been in our own business for more than 10 years.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this episode, Peter and Jonathan discuss Kaizen, Kanban, and Scrum methodology and how they can be applied to small businesses. They also chat about recent changes at Zappos, and the CFO of Palo Alto Software Trevor Betenson talks about human resources and conflict resolution. Holacracy.org: The Holacracy Constitution.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Since then, Anvil has achieved Fastest Growing, Most Admired and Most Philosophic Companies in Oregon. One morning during a Skype workout with one of my Army buddies, I realized there is one battlefield I haven’t fought on yet – business. Essentially my whole business went up in smoke. Thanks to Kent Lewis, Anvil Media. #4

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Peter: Well, fortunately I know how to pronounce his name because I felt and that was some of his incubator work but Joe is a local entrepreneurial champion here in Oregon. He’s helped a lot of small businesses succeed. He’s helped Startup weekend events here locally. Jonathan: You can go to a weekend event.

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Up and Running

JUNE 3, 2011

Frank Chimero , a designer and author in Portland, Oregon, keeps a collection of articles that inspire him to make things. Kai Davis is a marketing manager for Palo Alto Software. Text Playlist. I keep what I perceive to be a more valuable, important morgue file: one made of the best writing on the web I come across. About the Author.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 25, 2012

We as marketers operate in an industry obsessed with content that is “buzzwothy”, “viral”, and all other sorts of names that aim to describe a single scenario: getting people to talk about your business. What did you think about these “buzzworthy” forms of content? If You Liked This Post. :

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

If you aren’t familiar with the term, bootstrapping, also known as “self-funding,” refers to the various methods entrepreneurs can use to fund their startups beyond funding sources like small business loans. He won, ultimately raising $30,000, which the trio used to help start BloomNation.

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David Teten

JULY 6, 2011

Another option for data input is dictation software and microphone, such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking (~$50). BetterWorks offer large company group-buying for small businesses to take advantage of, for example, corporate gym discounts. . - Kinesis Advantage Keyboard ($269). Datahand ($995). Update: we’ve posted photos.

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Up and Running

JUNE 17, 2015

Sites like Meetup.com offer a vehicle for anyone to start any kind of group in your city, and with that comes a variety of networking groups, small business groups, and so on. “I It’s important to note that not all small businesses will be a good fit for an incubator or accelerator; they are generally geared toward tech businesses.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

Jonathan: When it comes to small business owners and entrepreneurs you’ve obviously carved out a niche with moms and mom business owners. One thing that we like as I said before we can’t compete, we small business owners cannot compete with ginormous brands like Nike when it comes to marketing dollars.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 7, 2015

I get so much enjoyment out of this because when I stand up in front of a room, and I just did it for a whole bunch of small businesses about 60 of them a month or so ago, we have a big utility here in town called Salt River Project and they do this quarterly and they bring in their small businesses and try to help them grow.

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