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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

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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. First, your business plan laid out the opportunity at hand.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

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Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

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Start With a Strong Team. (Or Not at All)

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Picture a meeting room with a lot of windows, early evening, early Spring, the Oregon landscape darkening outside. We now know that this ‘build it and they will come” is a prayer rather than a business strategy. An entrepreneur has just finished his pitch.

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9 Strategies to Increase Your Food Truck Revenue

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Here in Portland, Oregon, you can’t swing a stick without hitting half a dozen food trucks serving up a range of delicious options. The craze for mobile eats has been on the rise. While momentum has slowed slightly, food trucks continue to be a profitable restaurant business model. Offer mobile ordering and payment.

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The 7 key components of a perfect elevator pitch

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Here are a few examples of problem statements that could be highlighted in an elevator pitch: “Transferring photos off of mobile phones is a difficult and complex process.”. There are no good Chinese restaurants in Eugene, Oregon.”. What’s more important is that you understand your business model.

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The 7 Key Components of a Perfect Elevator Pitch [With Video]

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If your product or service doesn’t solve a problem that potential customers have, you don’t have a viable business model. That’s great if you are tackling such a problem, but for most businesses, that’s not the reality. As long as you, as an entrepreneur, are solving a problem that customers have, you can build a business.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores. INTERNET BUSINESSES. Business Services (B2B). Web Design/Tech Services. MANUFACTURING BUSINESSES. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. Travel Agencies.