Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2021

And I’m anticipating doing a lot of this in the places our portfolio companies are scattered: the Bay Area, New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Toronto, Portland, San Diego, Boston, Salt Lake City, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and so on. I’ve found that playing backgammon with my wife over lunch is nice when our mutual schedules accommodate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

. ##### Today’s guest blog post is by Mahesh Raj Mohan, a freelance writer and editor based in Portland, Oregon. You can reach him directly by email or via his website. He possesses 15 years of experience as a professional writer.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. I spoke with wife and husband team Kristen and Sergio Castillo, whose cat cafe, Purringtons, is set to open in Portland at the end of January. Phone calls and emails only go so far.

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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.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

Nearby Portland Oregon (just 160 miles away) is home to over 300 startups; between the two markets, nearly 80 new startups are forming each year. We’re looking for Computer Science professors, so email me if you want to live and teach in Bend!). Silicon Valley Transplants. Lessons Learned. Bend is a bet on a regional tech cluster.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

Smarter Sorting already has a live pilot here in Austin, working with Austin Resource Recovery, and has commitments to begin pilots with Portland, OR, Mesa County, CO, and Salt Lake City, UT. pdfs sent to the entire force.

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Up and Running

APRIL 7, 2010

As I looked up from my business plan reading chores yesterday, I saw an email from the business school at Rice University announcing that this year’s Rice Business Plan competition is setting a new record with more than $1 million in prize money. Let the games begin.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

A few days later, Mike emailed and asked if he and his wife Cindy could come to Boulder to spend some time with me and Amy. While we haven’t seen each other in person for a while, we periodically go back and forth on email and have a deep emotional intimacy that comes from the relationship we built through our time in YEO.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

And so I think just because Google is devouring more of these click-throughs it doesn’t mean you’re not going to get visitors from these other channels and especially from your own direct marketing whether that’s direct mail or email or those kinds of things. David: Yeah for sure.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 6, 2019

Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing. I’ll give a shout out to World Domination Summit in Portland. There’s powerful segmentation, email autoresponders that are ready to go, great reporting.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 21, 2014

I typed “Plumbing in Portland, Maine” and I got these results. In the email, make sure you thank them for being an amazing customer, and make sure to thank them again after they wrote the review. Getting the HUGE boost in traffic we talked about. Which result do you think gets the most clicks? For example: “Joe’s Plumbing, Baltimore”.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

or Portland. Email Address. The essential design paradigm can be sketched on the back of an envelope. Does glasperlenspiel ring bells? Glass Bead Game" aka "Magister Ludi" is a must read.). I dont live in SF. or Seattle. or Vancouver. Innovation is essentially a social process. Like high-school politics. ;-p. Anyhow, its Catch-22.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The location is remote (a 3-hour drive from Eugene and over 4 from Portland, with not much in between). Email This BlogThis! One of the guys on the trip referred to Bandon as Man Camp. If you havent been, it is difficult to describe the allure. Steve Bennet. at 12:00 PM. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook. No comments: Post a Comment.

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Up and Running

MAY 18, 2015

As I write this, I am currently sitting in my home office, overlooking my sleepy little neighborhood in Southeast Portland. I’m home at 11am on a weekday because I work remotely; I am employed by Palo Alto Software, but as they are located in Eugene, Oregon, and I am currently living in Portland, I am rarely in the office. “Don’t

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Up and Running

JANUARY 3, 2019

If you have email addresses for your customers, you can even use services like TowerData to automatically gather demographic data. If your persona is a Portland hipster, they probably don’t drive a BMW—well, maybe they drive one that’s vintage and restored by hand, but not a new one. Here are five steps to create your persona: 1.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Sunday, December 11th.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2019

Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused e-commerce brands drive more sales with super targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook, and Instagram marketing. It was in a part of Portland that was up and coming and I always loved serving small businesses. Stuff like payroll and benefits are hard. It was just a thing I grew up with.

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www.businessweek.com

JUNE 18, 2012

Kharif is a reporter for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek in Portland, Ore. Photograph by Oli Scarff/Getty Images A man uses Siri on the new iPhone 4S after being one of the first customers in the Apple store in Covent Garden. Voice Recognition. Why Nuance Is Giving It Away. By Olga Kharif on June 14, 2012. Google Plus. Google Plus.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 9, 2019

Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing. There’s powerful segmentation, email autoresponders that are ready to go, great reporting. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Grant Baldwin.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2016

I thought of names like, Ranking Results Northwest, Portland Optimization Strategies, or Portland SEO Works. 9 – From an Email. The name came from an email from a prospective client. Then, while still at our former firm, an email came in from a prospective client which perfectly described our new business model.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

John Lee Dumas: I have a couple friends in the City of Portland, Maine where I was born and raised and actually launched EOFire back in 2012 in Portland, Maine that are doing really cool regional podcast that are being listened to because people want to know what’s happening in Portland, not just in the world.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2019

John Jantsch: So, in preparation for this, because you do the conference and have your business in the city of Portland. Portland, Maine. John Jantsch: Yeah, I was going to go there, because I did a little search, I said, “Fun facts about Portland, Maine.” It was five fun facts about Portland, Oregon.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

This week we get an email from one of our listeners. Send us an email: Bcast@Bplans.com. Listen to Episode 8: Show notes: Charlie’s Email – (:31). Audio transcript: Jonathan: Hey guys before we get started with today’s episode, I just wanted to read an email that we got from one of our listeners.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Stephen goes out and talks to customers, while also managing emails and doing marketing events. 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. We talk with our floor manager, what the specials are going to be. They really like that.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

DECEMBER 20, 2020

What’s going to convince your customer that they want to learn more about you when they answer your sales call or see an email in their inbox? For instance, can you give a video demonstration of a product, rather than just an email pitch? You can also experiment with different kinds of strategies to attract and amazing your leads.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

On the email marketing front, Whirlpool went from four separate CTAs down to just one and improved their campaign’s click-through-rate by 42%. Before you do anything, identify exactly what your own one goal of the page or email will be. Every page or email must have a single target market…just one. Singularity. They shouldn’t.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 23, 2011

I have been getting emails and tweets all day from people upset that they cannot get into Startup Lessones Learned 2011 - either here in SF, where we're sold out, or in one of the more than 100 simulcast locations around the world, many of which are sold out, too.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

.” I ordered a CD from CD Baby, I think it was, and they sent the most hilarious shipping notice about the party they were having in downtown Portland, as they lovingly sent my package off to the post office. It was an email. I mean, that just made the experience more fun. It had nothing to do with the thing itself.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2011

We’ve just recently opened up an office in Portland, Oregon, which we affectionately call the “Developers Den”, where we continue to churn out innovative and useful apps for people. Email smallbiz@crowdspring.com ! Specifically, for me, it would have been to rein in spending and keep it balanced properly with revenues.

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conversionxl.com

OCTOBER 31, 2011

It opened it’s 4th restaurant of this kind in Portland, and said at the time that about 20 percent of the visitors to the cafes leave more than the suggested amount, 20 percent leave less and 60 percent pay what is suggested. Email: Comments. The company ended up making over $100,000 in revenue in the first month alone.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 16, 2019

Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing. There’s powerful segmentation, email autoresponders, that are ready to go, great reporting. This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Laura Vanderkam. I appreciate it.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 23, 2013

So let’s begin (it’s preferable you read this email while DRUNK)! You sit down to write a “nice introductory” email like this: THE E-MAIL. We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved “Bon Voyage!”

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

IS&T’s Seventh International Congress on Advances in Non-impact Printing Technologies , volume 2, edited by Ken Pietrowski, Portland, OR, USA. I suppose I could email them and ask for their source… Perhaps it’s anecdotal/qualitative, not quantitative research. Your email address will not be published.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Mike Levy, the retired founder of Texas Monthly and a bond opponent, fumed in one of the emails he regularly sends to reporters: “The mayor talks about reducing congestion. In his email to Levy, Young described the Austin Transportation Director Robert Spillar as a “transportation fanatic that hates cars and thinks he lives in Portland.”

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Petersburg, Florida, presented Happy Grasshopper , an online service helping sales people keep in touch with their prospects via email. Michael Goldman, from Portland, Maine, presented Wealth Gathering , a social gaming consumer app for managing your financial health. Happy Grasshopper. Dan Stewart, from Tampa/St. Wealth Gathering.

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