Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Tired of working for someone else, in 2010 they opened a Northwest-style-meets-Southern-cuisine food cart in downtown Eugene, Oregon. The University of Oregon marketing department also did a survey for us to see what beers and food worked best in a 50-mile radius. What are the most important metrics that you watch in your business?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 28, 2016

If you could predict the chance that a given customer might churn in the next thirty days, you could be proactive and perhaps avert the loss. If you could predict the chance that a given customer would be amenable to an upgrade, you could focus your internal messaging efforts accordingly. Except the forecaster isn’t a genius.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2014

There are some businesses that that will be the case, but there are many, many businesses where that’s the case because you’re not aggressive enough about your collections and when I say aggressive, it doesn’t mean you have to be impolite or nasty or anything that’s going to annoy your customers. What are your competitors doing?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Ingenie claims to help customers (often students) save up to 50 percent of what they would otherwise be paying. Palo Alto Software, for example, uses their own product, LivePlan , to manage and keep track of key business metrics. Every 10 days, the box assigns you a score out of 100. Very clever. In short, it makes my life easy.

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Up and Running

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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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The amendment introduced by Oregon Representative Greg Walden, specifically prohibits the FCC from enforcing its Net Neutrality rules , passed late last year. Small businesses which are built on the Internet and dependent on it for their livelihoods are threatened by an amendment to the spending bill passed by the House last week.

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Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

After doing my MBA at the University of Oregon, I decided I wanted to try to become a professional triathlete. Our first employees were actually University of Oregon students that came in and made the bars in our house. See Also The 5 Metrics You Need to Track for Your Subscription Business to Succeed. We did about $1.1

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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? See Also: The 5 Metrics You Need to Track for Your Subscription (SaaS) Business to Succeed. Elderly care. Graze Box has you covered.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

Name, a unique persistent customer id (Geek ID), the keyword the person came on and their underwear size. and you have one more page in Omniture you can configure to compute customer offline intent (THDStoreFinderDirections baby!). Real multichannel impact of your website as rated by the people you are trying to impact: your customers.

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