Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

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. Nearby Portland Oregon (just 160 miles away) is home to over 300 startups; between the two markets, nearly 80 new startups are forming each year.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? See Also: Fear Doesn’t Have to Hold You Back From Networking. Your initial system will likely be seven to 15 barrels.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Throughout that development process the marketing team kept pressing, leading the company to 50,000 influencers over the Summer, which made us the largest warm contact influencer network in the market. Although we started in Portland, Oregon, we now have members in every state with many meetup launches planned for 2020.We’re

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

Even a mere 1 second delay can result in “11% fewer page views, a 16% decrease in customer satisfaction, and 7% loss in conversions.”. For AWS users, a network optimization tool such as Datapath.io Lastly, the golden rule of simplicity is to add plenty of whitespace to every design. seconds to 1.6. The target audience’s needs.

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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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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? Know your customers and your financials. Figure out how much you’ll need to have in production at a time to be profitable.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

Like many parents these days, Josh and his wife Bethany realized that it would be a battle keeping the house designated into gluten-free and non-gluten-free areas, so they all got on the bandwagon and kicked gluten to keep things simple. Jude’s Foods logo, designed by Bethany Fegles. What’s your biggest challenge?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

She sells custom cross stitch pieces, which are humorous, clever, and definitely memorable. Best of all, an eBay business can be anything you want it to be—for example, Lori Cheek, founder of Cheek’d and bootstrap marketing expert, used eBay to resell her designer clothing, which helped fund her startup. Worms (yes, worms).

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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. Most people who want to build something independently make this trade-off: they give off pieces of independence to access to the capital and networks that venture capital can provide. The Andyies asked me to talk about our Indie.vc

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Here in Oregon, we’ve got some in Portland that are really great and then this article talks about some here in Eugene, Oregon which are doing well but fairly new. The customer validation phase is critical for that kind of thing. Caroline: Number five is not talking to customers. Definitely check out your area.

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