Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Although we started in Portland, Oregon, we now have members in every state with many meetup launches planned for 2020.We’re I’m especially excited because some of the well-respected investors in the VC community have agreed to be a part of our advisory/mentorship board which will give our program the much-required credibility.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

Before moving to Bend last year, my career took me from engineering development roles at defense contractors in the 80’s to product management and executive marketing roles in companies like Qualcomm in the 90’s, to the world of venture capital at several firms including Bay Partners, Formative Ventures and Vulcan Ventures. What’s Different.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2012

Key drivers of satisfaction at Microsoft include product quality, value for money, security, accuracy, and speed of solutions. Which organizations are great at teaching new customers how to get the most from their products and their service? Voice of the Customer. But that’s not everything the company’s customers and partners value.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2011

And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Portland too. Vancouver has a number of local events and programs that connect and support members of the community, including Vancouver GreenTech Exchange, Vancouver Startup Weekend, Mobile Mondays, and BCIC-New Ventures Competition. Then there's Seattle, of course.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

Smarter Sorting already has a live pilot here in Austin, working with Austin Resource Recovery, and has commitments to begin pilots with Portland, OR, Mesa County, CO, and Salt Lake City, UT. RoadBotics is doing product testing with cities in Contra Costa County, CA, and the Port Authority of Allegheny County, PA.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 30, 2016

Several years ago I wrote Startup Communities and Startup Life over the summer. I’m gearing up to be in marathon shape with the goal of running the Portland Marathon in October. Every summer is a different adventure for me. And I plan to make a healthy dent in my infinite pile of books.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

I googled “How do you sell a food product?” ” That’s what got me connected with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center and Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center. “Just very naturally we, out of our own life, created a great product.” This is too much.”

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2015

Brand ambassadors are the people who are so in love with your product or service, they’ll spread the word about your business for free. Your product or service will never be perfect. Also playing on this idea, Salt & Straw, a popular ice cream retail chain in Portland, Oregon, is serving up totally unexpected flavors.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

Method, the popular cleaning products company, is a registered benefit corporation in the state of Delaware. Bamboo Sushi in Portland, OR is both a benefit corporation and B corp certified. Fournier with detailed, guide-style information on starting a benefit corporation and the positive effects they can have on communities.

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Up and Running

JULY 17, 2017

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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Bryce Dot VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

When the product you’re offering is money, it can be challenging to determine how real product/market fit actually is, but we’ve been encouraged by the enthusiastic response. In that same time we’ve hosted 4 meetups in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco and Portland.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 14, 2012

I recently got back from a cross-country road trip where I drove from Chicago to Portland, OR. There’s so much upfront work to complete before you’re ready to offer your products to people that it would have been nice to have that “safety net” while I was working on all of that.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the XOXO Festival in Portland Oregon. percent of companies are using a product, venture capital, that really doesn’t work for them. As a VC, I’m in a position where I have a product that doesn’t work for 99.93% of my customers. The Andyies asked me to talk about our Indie.vc

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

What type of brewery will you be: production brewery or brewpub? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar? You want locally oriented people, people who want a good product, made local.”. Do you want to scale to multiple locations?

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Building relationships with vendors and the local community. These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. In addition, they will introduce a new product, a traditional German Marzen-style lager. Finding a brewery location.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2016

I started my company to increase the awareness about marketing within the small business community (what it is, what it is not, how to know you’re doing it right, etc) as I come across many that confuse marketing with PR or sales and are frustrated when their marketing programs don’t create the sales boost they expect.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2019

John Jantsch: So, in preparation for this, because you do the conference and have your business in the city of Portland. Portland, Maine. John Jantsch: Yeah, I was going to go there, because I did a little search, I said, “Fun facts about Portland, Maine.” It was five fun facts about Portland, Oregon.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

One rule of thumb I learned upon entering the technology industry was that it takes seven years, on average, for new technology to go from laboratory proofs to sellable product. Companies like Chris Anderson’s 3D Robotics have built, along with the open source community, the ArduPilot, a sub-$500 autopilot for unmanned drones.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

She has written books called The Writer’s Process about the inner game of writing creatively and productively, and The Workplace Writers’ Process, something that all these content marketers probably need to know a little bit about. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Anne Janzer. Anne Janzer: Yeah. John Jantsch: Yeah.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

You can purchase bitcoins electronically and then use them to make payments and purchase products or services from companies accepting the currency, and the number of these companies continues to increase steadily. Meneghello is a partner with employment law firm Fisher Phillips in Portland, Ore.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

We added an employee-of-the-month program, we work on providing meals and beers, and trips to Portland, but retaining people is still a tough one. Our biggest short-term goal is local distribution, and we’re increasing our production to facilitate that. You work in a crowded, booming industry. Colleen: The food. It’s saturated.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

Sticker Mule ’s original homepage (featured below) contained just four top-tier products and everything essentially lived “above the fold.” Adding all of their products to the homepage hurt revenue by nearly 48%. Irrelevant images are the bane of low-converting product pages and ads. How to Be Simple. people and places).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. If you're in town Saturday night, you'll want to stop by Ignite: Lean Startup , a community-run event that features a number of new voices in the Lean Startup community. Welcome to our fair city. Also: booze. Founder, Tout.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2011

b. In the early stages, focus on just making the greatest product or service you can. c. Make sure you hire people to work with you who share your passion and enthusiasm… it really helps everyone stay on the same page and keep focused, and it definitely shows in the end product. Comfortable and steady!

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

But today we are intentionally engineering six distinct activities to support this tech cluster: entrepreneurial density, university, transportation, capital, accelerator, and business community. This effort was over a decade in the making and something that the local community fought hard for. University. Transportation.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

An argument has been raging for decades within the scientific and typographic communities on what seems a very insignificant issue: Do serifs contribute to the legibility of typefaces, and by definition, are sans serif typefaces less legible? The php community practically did not bother to defend itself. Introduction. Morris, R.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

And between the free and premium programs, as well as the blog, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, we have a community of more than 200,000 people engaged in the initiative at various levels. Vikrant Mathur, from the San Francisco Bay Area, presented iFood.tv , a large community of cooking lesson videos where food lovers learn to cook.

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