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Where to Find High-Quality Drone Parts and Accessories

The Startup Magazine

Similarly, rugged frames and sturdy landing gear reduce risk of breaking during routine operation or minor crashes. Electronic speed controllers regulate power distribution from the flight battery to the motors, while the flight controller acts as the drone’s computerized brain coordinating inputs and stabilizing altitude.

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

Up and Running

Beginning as a small red cart in Eugene, Oregon, today Red Wagon Creamery has a downtown storefront, local retail distribution, and online ordering. In addition to law, Stuart was involved in various business ventures, including building subdivisions, as well as owning or operating restaurants, a grocery store, and a farm.

Oregon 60
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How to Start a Brewery

Up and Running

For Dan Hughes, Director of Operations at startup brewery ColdFire Brewing, he and his brother have been hard at work on business development and recipe formulation, navigating bureaucracy, and enduring the inevitable delays that come with brewery construction, equipment delivery, and regulatory approval. But they all take so much time.

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. Now that you’ve got everything in place with manufacturing and distributing, how involved are you in the business? I googled “How do you sell a food product?”

Oregon 60
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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud). Raise here, but deploy elsewhere” is not a crazy strategy in today’s times.

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

Up and Running

While Dan heads up operations, his brother Stephen is head brewer, and their team also includes directors of finance and brand, respectively. These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. Watch your finances.

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. As a venture funded startup, you’re supposed to operate a certain way. In that case, if you want to pay yourself more than 150% of a market salary, we would consider that a distribution. Then we put a 5X cap on the distributions.