Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Just returned from a golf trip to Bandon Dunes , Oregon. This got me thinking about the business model that Mike Keiser has built at the resort and a lecture began to form in my head. And even if he built it, would anyone come to this remote Oregon outpost?" They have done a great job of serving the market.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2013

In Oregon, nearly 30 percent of all traffic fatalities are related to drunk driving. ” Adapting the business model for a nonprofit service. He realized quickly that in order to launch RIDE as a nonprofit, he’d have to reinvent the business model. Right now, prevention is a hassle.

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Up and Running

MARCH 28, 2013

Reeser met with us to talk about the engineering business model, the music industry and the challenges he faces. Whether it be doing higher-quality production or invading different markets, that’s really what I feel. Young kids that know what the limits of business are going to be set at, and trying to push them.

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Gust

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Picture a meeting room with a lot of windows, early evening, early Spring, the Oregon landscape darkening outside. In reality, a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. An entrepreneur has just finished his pitch. You need a combination of skills. What skills?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 15, 2016

Wouldn’t it be great if, instead of having to fight, hunt, and practically beg for each new sale, you could set up a business in such a way that all your customers paid you regularly, time and time again? To give you an idea about what is out there, here are a few areas where the subscription business model has excelled.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There are no good Chinese restaurants in Eugene, Oregon.”. Solution - Too many entrepreneurs start with a solution: a product or service that they think the market needs without first identifying the problem they are solving. For example, if you have a new shoe company, it would be tempting to say that your target market is “everyone.”

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Up and Running

JUNE 1, 2016

Here in Portland, Oregon, you can’t swing a stick without hitting half a dozen food trucks serving up a range of delicious options. While momentum has slowed slightly, food trucks continue to be a profitable restaurant business model. In order to tap into this suggestion, start by doing some market research.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In such a crowded market, making good beer and opening the doors isn’t enough anymore. But, the good news is, if all these people could start a brewery, then you can too—as long as you know what you’re getting into and have a solid business plan for your brewery. As of November 2015, there were 4,144 breweries in the U.S.—more

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JANUARY 8, 2019

Because you’re the expert on your own business, the research you do to understand your target market, your competition, and your particular business model will help you fill in the details and really make your business plan useful and credible to potential funders. Mistake 2: Assuming the sample is perfect.

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Up and Running

MAY 31, 2016

See Also: How to Write a Business Plan in Under an Hour. The first big hurdle for the artist business plan is what they call the business model, or, if you don’t like the trendy buzzword, how you make money. ” Don’t completely discount the related businesses. Here are some suggestions. There are galleries.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2012

I’m taking some vacation time this week and I’m actually going to stand waste deep in the Columbia River in Oregon and cast for Trout. It was at this ad agency where she taught small businesses the value of a strong foundation and how they would grow with a strong brand. Most small businesses fall down here.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

In such a crowded market, making good beer and opening the doors isn’t enough anymore. But, the good news is, if all those people could start a brewery, then you can too—as long as you know what you’re getting into and have a solid business plan for your brewery. The ColdFire Brewing team meets to plan marketing.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. The cat cafe business model is incredibly new, and as such, there is much less in the way of a road map for these entrepreneurs to follow. How do you open a business unlike any other?

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Small Business Force

MAY 26, 2015

Don't let tradition or traditionalists kill your innovative vision for your business model or your business growth. The tagline of one of the greatest ad campaigns of the last 40 years came from Steve Jobs and Apple, tweaking the then market leader, IBM, who had used "Think" as its motto for nearly 75 years.

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Up and Running

MARCH 13, 2019

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. There are no good Chinese restaurants in Eugene, Oregon.”. Know your target market.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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MARCH 11, 2015

The opportunity when I got to pitch on stage in front of 400 angel investors was for the largest angel investor conference in the Pacific northwest called Angel Oregon, and we competed with 60 other companies. I have some entrepreneurs who are in Gaza, who are in Cairo, who are in New Jersey, and I’m in Oregon.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

Lara Galloway ( @mombizcoach ) joins the show to discuss niche marketing. Check out Tim Berry’s book, Lean Business Planning , coming soon. What is niche marketing (with Lara Galloway, the @mombizcoach)? Check out Lara Galloway’s new book, Moms Mean Business. – (9:47). Read also: TAM, SAM, and SOM, Huh?

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

What if something dramatically changes in the market? Build in fluidity to your business plans. I’d implemented a business plan including marketing, engagement, sales strategy and realized a few months in that it wasn’t servicing a key influence or in the sales process. The solution? Really just to tweak.

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