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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

Social media marketing for startups : How to use social to launch, position your messaging and get distribution. Startup Hiring : How to attract, hire and retain the best people. Narrative and Comms Design by Portland State University. Harvard and MIT created edX , an online learning platform with great content.

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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? Relationships.

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

Up and Running

Having to hire, fire, and lay people off, it’s hard to do. 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. Colleen: Currently it’s all about distribution. We make our money in beer distribution, not so much on the food side.

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. Hire the right team. Martin Cove Brewing Company.

Oregon 24
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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. The way the SBDC works is they’ll partner you up with people who have done what you’re trying to do. We have never hired any employees.

Oregon 60
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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. Back in 2005 we started a venture firm called OATV, O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures, myself, my partner Tim O’Reilly, and my partner Mark Jacobson. Then we put a 5X cap on the distributions. And that’s not a joke.