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Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Steve Blank

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. What’s Different.

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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

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A Lean Business Plan might be a better fit if you simply need to think through all the different aspects of your business. A Lean Plan will be shorter, and it lends itself to quick revisions, but both types follow the same general outline. Team: Who is on your management team? They tend to be lengthier and more detailed.

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SWOT Analysis Examples

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Building and learning how to manage a basic website could be a huge marketing asset for Sedibeng. Developing an efficient employee onboarding process and training program will be increasingly critical to the company’s ability to grow and manage culture. . See Also: The Complete Sedibeng Breweries Business Plan. Employee training.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. The first application they ever launched was in the property management space. Back then it seemed foreign.

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3 Website Trends That Customers (and Business Owners) Will Love

Duct Tape Marketing

However, I’ve noticed as the design community has leaped from font to font, color to color, designs are converging on a theme of minimalism. Andy Hayes is a creative web producer based in sunny Portland, Oregon. Just like in fashion, web designers tend to go through a lot of fads – specifically color schemes and font choices.

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Optimism in the Face of Uncertainty: A Look at Small Business in 2017

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My neighborhood of Alberta in Portland, Oregon, where small local businesses are plentiful. However, this isn’t just based on the perception that local communities are experiencing improved economic conditions; in fact, it’s debatable whether or not individual small business communities are actually experiencing measurable success and growth.

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Cats With Your Coffee? What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Purringtons Cat Cafe

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In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. In the instance of a cat cafe, Kristen discussed the difficulty in managing the opening of what is essentially two distinct businesses. Do something that fits your community.