Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Today with every city, state, country trying to build out a technology cluster, following Dino’s progress can provide others with a roadmap of what’s worked and didn’t. Here’s Part 3 of Dino’s story….

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. Misty Denson from Portland, Oregon, presented NameYourRentNow.com. Discuss.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

It’s the result of several decades in high tech, three years as an investor in a local Oregon angel investment group , some consulting in due diligence for venture capital, and my experience as founder and co-founder of successful ventures. By defensibility I mean expertise, design, differentiation, technology, trade secrets, and so on.

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Up and Running

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. Lenders make decisions based on customer ability to repay the loan. Census Bureau.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

UbiQD enabled this innovation with safer, cheaper, and more reliable quantum dot technology that it’s licensing from M.I.T., Our solar window technology sounds and looks like a completely different concept, but in fact is well aligned with our greenhouse products. It works on cannabis too! How do you choose which to focus on?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2016

is the first fully customized unit geared towards a sensitive canine nervous system. As MehtaFor continued to grow in 2016, expanding pro bono services and the trainee program, receiving the support of an Oregon-based grant created just for entrepreneurs making a living with their craft was tremendously appreciated.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Phil Knight, the co-founder of Nike, was a runner at the University of Oregon under the famous coach Bill Bowerman, who later coached the US Olympic team. Unfazed by obstacles, the Maker views mistakes as great feedback, the quickest way to focus a product and bring it to a paying customer. Consider this legendary example.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 10, 2018

You will need to invest your time into getting clarity about your market and customers and building momentum around your product. . You will need to build champions for your product in order to convert customers from their existing way of doing things. Collaborate with Others to Help You Compete with the Status Quo.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

It’s about being somewhere your customers will see you, about being in a competitive location, about staying within budget, and about meeting local and state regulations and laws. Zoning map of Eugene, Oregon. That’s great, but it’s not enough. You can also look to an attorney for help through the process. Give it a try. The problem?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

Thankfully, the availability of other unconventional funding options is also increasing, providing capital to entrepreneurs whose businesses may grow to become long-term customers.

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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 Now we’re a bonafide and recognized medium-sized company that serves customers throughout our State and employs many arborists and serves so many homes and businesses. Photo Credit: Adam Rossow.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. His name was Chip Kelly and he came off of a very successful stint as the coach of the collegiate Oregon Ducks. A great leader knows customers and has direct relationships with them. Chip Kelly had bunker mentality.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Additionally, Microsoft will provide its startups with four to eight months of advice, design and development help, discounted access to Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace APIs, and introductions to potential partners or customers. The startups will also have the option of using office space on Microsoft’s Bellevue, Wash.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

I might suggest you want to add something about the location, the convenience, what types of customers are coming to this. The problem is the customer is hot, hungry and looking for a special treat. Quality is our first ingredient and that means a lot to our customers. Special toppings, so it’s customizable.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

” This was a statement told to me years ago by a former client of mine, Chuck Kaady, owner of Kaady Car Washes, located in Oregon. 17 – Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”Bill Thanks to Tiffany Sartor, Posh Peyton. #17

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. it looks like it's included in all of "their" app kits.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Whats on your technology toolbelt? SMALL BUSINESS.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2018

That’s because they’re fitted with noise-canceling technology. Ingenie claims to help customers (often students) save up to 50 percent of what they would otherwise be paying. You may find things suddenly become less enjoyable as you’ve got to start doing your hobby to meet customer demands or to pay the bills. Very clever.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. I have some entrepreneurs who are in Gaza, who are in Cairo, who are in New Jersey, and I’m in Oregon. Are you saving them time?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Since beating out hundreds of entrants in the competition last September, Maternova has racked up some impressive achievements in its mission to provide a global marketplace for doctors, nurses, and midwives to track innovation and buy technologies that save lives in childbirth and help improve newborn care around the world.

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Gust

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Picture a meeting room with a lot of windows, early evening, early Spring, the Oregon landscape darkening outside. Twenty or so angel investors (me included) sit on tables arranged like a big U, with a table in the middle for a projector, and a screen in front. An entrepreneur has just finished his pitch. Investors want teams. What skills?

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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

JULY 21, 2014

Transforming your real-life store for today’s technology. In omnichannel retailing, a customer can use more than one sales channel to shop from a retailer for any given transaction. How are your customers behaving as they shop? One restaurant-store in my own town, Eugene, Oregon, has got this approach down to a tee.

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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

JULY 14, 2015

Peter: Well, fortunately I know how to pronounce his name because I felt and that was some of his incubator work but Joe is a local entrepreneurial champion here in Oregon. 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.

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David Teten

JULY 6, 2011

This new technology encourages more open dialogue and presentation at meetings as no one is isolated from the board, and is also very economical. Technology. ’ We had heard that this new technology, which tries to mimic natural sunlight, was supposed to enhance productivity. Update: we’ve posted photos.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. Since then, Anvil has achieved Fastest Growing, Most Admired and Most Philosophic Companies in Oregon. Different business owners also have different reason why they love their business.

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JULY 31, 2012

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Nudge is a fast pace, but still insightful with real world examples that you can apply her recent issue, talked about the, the idea of getting your customers, your prospects, in the habit of buying from you, or listening to you or following you. I rode my bicycle from Virginia to Oregon. And so there was always competition.

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Small Business Force

MAY 26, 2015

"Tradition" is the opening number of the classic Broadway musical, Fiddler on the Roof , about villagers trying to continue their past customs as the world around them changes. Technology, sports, no matter, if you think different, you can't help but stimulate innovation and a new vision.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Alaska , Wyoming , Colorado , Washington , Oregon, Maine.) My ideas about Customer Development started evolving around these concepts. However, I think if I had understood the basics of Customer Development I might have done 5-6 startups rather than 8 to get to retirement. We would take at least a 3-week vacation every summer.

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Up and Running

JUNE 17, 2015

Look at the top 20 to 30 people you currently do business with, who are not your customers. Is there a local conference on an aspect of your technology? “Consider your own network of connections,” says Susan Bender Phelps, owner of Odyssey Mentoring & Leadership. Go to any upcoming events in your field.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant. The sales rep that brings back news from the front line that is shared with the office adds to our collective knowledge about customer needs, product design flaws or partnership opportunities.

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