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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

Covering the blossoming startup industry in Portland, Oregon, and the Silicon Forest. 6) Advise as if you were an employee. Personally, I take this from the vantage of an employee or consultant advising his or her superiors. Related posts Cloudability’s day in the sun: Portland company lands $8.7 Silicon Florist.

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One Little Ice Cream Cart That’s About to Have Big Growth

Up and Running

An employee at Red Wagon Creamery serves up a scoop. Beginning as a small red cart in Eugene, Oregon, today Red Wagon Creamery has a downtown storefront, local retail distribution, and online ordering. Add seven to 10 employees. Heart of Chocolate. Raspberry Rickey. Smoked Salt Caramel #6. Blackberry Cheesecake.

Oregon 60
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How to Start a Brewery

Up and Running

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? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar?

Oregon 60
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How I Started a Gluten-Free Cookie Company: With Josh Fegles of Jude’s Foods

Up and Running

” That’s what got me connected with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center and Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center. We have never hired any employees. Now that you’ve got everything in place with manufacturing and distributing, how involved are you in the business?

Oregon 60
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From Food Cart to Award-Winning Restaurant: A Secret to Success Story

Up and Running

In the midst of managing employees, running two businesses, handling suppliers, discussing beer styles with their brewer, and taking on all the other challenges of running a brewery and restaurant, the Sheehans took some time to share their secrets to success. Stephen: Employee relations. What mistakes had you learned from?

Oregon 60
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How to Start a Brewery: Growing Your Own Craft Beer Business

Up and Running

Most small businesses and startups that are looking to grow— hire a new employee , or buy a new piece of equipment, or open a new location —need to think hard about cash flow, or making sure they have enough money in the bank to meet payroll and other financial obligations. Initial plans are to produce three main lines of beer.

Oregon 24
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My XOXO Talk

Bryce Dot VC

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the XOXO Festival in Portland Oregon. In that case, if you want to pay yourself more than 150% of a market salary, we would consider that a distribution. If you continue to make those distributions it flips- 80 percent to the creator and then 20 percent to us.