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AUGUST 6, 2013

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. “ So who were the hard-working businessmen and women behind the winning business plans? . “My business really, really needed this break.”

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AUGUST 29, 2014

A venture feasibility study analyzes an idea from several perspectives: market opportunity, competition, resources available, resource gaps, financial viability, operational issues, intellectual property rights, development timeline and technology needs. Most small business owners find these procedures daunting.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Business team and spouses Colleen and Stephen Sheehan started small, then went big. Tired of working for someone else, in 2010 they opened a Northwest-style-meets-Southern-cuisine food cart in downtown Eugene, Oregon. We wondered how we could be part of that, so we wrote an amazing business plan with the help of Palo Alto Software.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

UW-Madison Small Business Development Center (SBDC) celebrating SBDC Day. Starting a new small business? Looking for some professional consulting to help you think through your business plan or your strategies for growth? Your local Small Business Development Center (SBDC) can help. Business planning.

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JULY 16, 2015

Beginning as a small red cart in Eugene, Oregon, today Red Wagon Creamery has a downtown storefront, local retail distribution, and online ordering. From the beginning and all along the way, careful planning has guided the business from revenues of $35,000 in 2011, to $400,000 in 2014, and estimates of $700,000 for 2015. “We

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 5, 2012

Virgin Islands,” five states - Delaware, Maine, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon - already have active SEA programs. Oregon has been operating an SEA program since 1995, and a survey shows nearly half of its program’s participants have created an average of 3.12 To entrepreneurial types this seems like a no-brainer.

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JULY 10, 2014

[ Down to Business is a weekly small business advice column featured in The World Newspaper, originally published online by the Oregon Small Business Development Center Network , and republished here with permission. ]. Growing a Business Operations Strategy business business ideas business planning goal setting'

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AUGUST 20, 2013

In Oregon, nearly 30 percent of all traffic fatalities are related to drunk driving. In his research, Jonathan uncovered existing services similar to RIDE in other cities— Be My DD , for example, operates in much of the country—but none of them were nonprofit organizations. Right now, prevention is a hassle.

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JULY 15, 2014

This ensures the idea is not forgotten and does not interfere with operating the core business. Ideally, ideas should be scrutinized through the business plan process, but sometimes time does not allow for a full business plan to be written. Include these in the next update of the company business plan.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Seasonal businesses are very common, especially in locales where travel and tourism are important industries, where weather has an impact on outdoor business operations, and where retail sales slow during the winter months. Have a question about your small business? What are the alternatives in your industry or area?

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 27, 2016

The research is conclusive: A study completed by the University of Oregon showed that companies that prepare business plans are 20% more likely to grow their business, and twice as likely to secure investment capital than those that don’t. The M3 Planning Strategy Benchmark of 280 U.S.

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MARCH 31, 2010

We moved from Palo Alto, California to Eugene, Oregon. We voted with our feet, moving from the world’s startup capital to a comfortable university town (the University of Oregon is here) in Oregon. I have another friend who moved from Italy to the San Francisco Bay area to be where business is better.

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MAY 25, 2016

In this article, I’m going to provide you with a list of strategies that will help you increase your nonprofit’s revenue so that you can not only stay in operation, but thrive! Take a look at our library of free sample business plans—this will give you insight into how other nonprofits construct their strategy.

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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. “Beautiful food always tastes better,” Helen told me, and Ume Grill certainly operates on that philosophy. And in order to secure a loan, she needed a business plan.

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MAY 26, 2015

When it comes to registering your business name, you have several options, which you can take advantage of together or separately. The options for registering your business name include: Registering your business structure, and simply operating under that name. Trademarking your business name. Filing for a DBA.

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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. Purringtons will operate both as a restaurant and as a shelter where cats live on-site; they even plan on adopting out the cats to interested patrons. Actually doing the planning.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Talk to the farm down the street about how they’re using their hilly, forested land to plan for a future logging operation. Why do you want to start a small farming business? For example, Oregon State University Extension has a “Small Farms” portal where you can find out more about crops, grains, soil, livestock, and much more.

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APRIL 28, 2015

After doing my MBA at the University of Oregon, I decided I wanted to try to become a professional triathlete. It was definitely a mom and pop shop operation, just making the bars out of our kitchen for the first year and a half. As a business owner, doing that for the first time is pretty scary. That was how we started.

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MARCH 15, 2016

Create a plan for your business. First off: You’ll need a business plan. Now, the idea of a formal business plan can understandably be intimidating; it can feel like sitting down and writing a novel. If you’re not seeking bank or investor funding, you can probably get away with a lean business plan.

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JULY 14, 2015

Or what if a new brilliant idea that you hadn’t considered when you were planning emerges? 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.

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JULY 31, 2014

Gross margin is something that can be very stable for certain types of businesses and can be very unstable for others. You’ve got to really think about what is the cost to operate a business, are they startup or onetime expenses? The post How to Grow Your Business by Setting Goals [Webinar] appeared first on Bplans Blog.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

In addition to creating a solid business plan, getting incorporated and a whole host of other things, a lot of your time will probably be taken up thinking about how to fund your new venture. Bootstrapping your business. The thing is, getting started isn’t as straightforward as some people make it sound. Let’s begin.

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