Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Here at Palo Alto, we champion the value of investing in books for employees. Andrew Lee, my fellow intern on the software development end of things at Palo Alto, recommended New York Times bestseller “ Shoe Dog ” by Phil Knight, the shoe mogul who basically bankrolls my hometown of Eugene, Oregon.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 11, 2020

Jasmine Family (Oregon) Kristen Family (Pennslyvania) Colleen’s Family (Not Disclosed) Cristina Family (New Jersey) Theresa’s Family (Texas). Families get referred to us through friends, families, and through their former employers who are pained by having to let the employees go.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

Company culture is defined as the shared values, beliefs and practices of company employees including management. Company culture changes as the employees in the business change, as management makes strategic decisions and as the business environment shifts. Look for common employee behaviors.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

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. Oregon Entrepreneur Network (OEN). Silicon Florist. Subscribe via RSS population: Blog.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2012

Airport employees eagerly greet you with smiles and ask how they can help. an employee asks. Airline employees know where you can buy last-minute souvenirs. These basic introductions and inductions are important, but they don’t connect new employees to the company or the culture in a welcoming and motivating way.

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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 22-Investment in Employees. Hiring new resources and get them trained is much time taking, unless it is an obligation, rather than adding a small number of investments on experienced employees.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Simultaneously, people in Oregon, Montana and Idaho are dealing with forest fires brought on by the driest conditions these states have seen in decades. The key to having a successful communication plan is to have several ways in which you can communicate with your employees when you need to. Know your staff.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

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. However, by working closely with the Oregon Department of Agriculture and learning through their own research, Red Wagon found its way.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2014

Plus, demonstrating through your company’s actions — not just your mission statement or website copy — that you care about employees, customers, and society in general will help you to build tremendous customer loyalty. Southwest cares so much about employees and customers that LUV is the company’s stock symbol. Southwest Airlines.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Will you easily be able to find employees? Can you afford to pay your employees at least the minimum wage? Zoning map of Eugene, Oregon. How do you fit in with or stand out from your competitors? How close do you need to be to suppliers? What kind of neighborhood do you want to set up shop in? Is safety very important?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 30, 2017

Andrew Tillery is the Marketing Director for MAP Communications , an employee-owned company that provides answering services and call center solutions. Born and raised in Oregon and having lived for several years in Seattle, Andrew has a damp, green place in his heart for the Pacific Northwest.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Let’s use the Oregon football team as an example. If a potential employee doesn’t have either one of those traits, we won’t make that hire. Just like every athlete needs to be coached differently, the same goes for employees. Below are four ways to build an elite business team that rivals a championship sports team: 1.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

You need to have rock-solid expectations of in-office or at-home work hours and specific skill sets your new employee should have — from languages and platforms to design and UX/UI abilities. Twitter Now Has 300 Employees Cloudera Secures $25M in Funding PayPal Announces Micropayment System. 10,000 Websites Integrate with Facebo.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

You're an employee even though you're not. Well, again, I appreciate you stopping by and the next time, hopefully I'm in Hood River, Oregon. Nicole Bernard (07:38): Yeah, and I think at the beginning I didn't as well, and I didn't set boundaries super well, so I'd be answering emails at 11 o'clock at night. Yes, exactly.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

Network Redux, a managed-service provider in Portland, Oregon, serves more than 1,100 clients globally, but could not secure credit after the 2008 credit crisis despite a 100 percent year-over-year growth rate. Such programs help early-stage companies get the capital they need to fuel growth, especially when banks aren’t lending.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

And on Wednesday, moovel announced plans to consolidate its operations and house everyone at its Portland, Oregon headquarters. All of 36 employees in the Austin office are being offered a full relocation package to move to […] The post moovel Moves Austin Team to Portland Headquarters appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Portland, Oregon-based Shwood was founded by Eric Singer, whose inspiration for starting the company came from hand-carving a pair of sunglass frames one day out of a Madrone tree limb from his own backyard, adding a rusty pair of cabinet hinges and lenses from a corner store.

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Up and Running

MAY 9, 2014

Do you know how your employees treat customers when you aren’t there? Training can often help employees provide better customer service. Train employees in verifying that the check or credit card is good. Good customer service. Customer service is the key to the word-of-mouth advertising you hope to generate in the community.

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Up and Running

JUNE 17, 2014

When you train employees to do tasks you usually do, you can move on to other things knowing the work is in good hands. How can I feel more comfortable delegating important tasks to my employees? Business owners sometimes face barriers to feeling comfortable with delegating tasks to employees. I enjoy doing it.”.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2014

Employees prefer to know what management expects them to accomplish, and goals provide that direction. Once in a while, management will want to change the course of an organization by motivating employees to reach higher. Successful companies set goals that support the business mission and recognize employees for a job well done.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

If the free flow of ideas is important to business operations, regardless of whether you’re a sole-trader or a business with 20 employees, you’re going to want to build an environment that breeds creativity. Powell’s bookstore in Portland, Oregon has done just this. Think about the meeting room, the kitchen, even the bathroom!

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Some hire employees only during the busy times and lay them off when the season ends. Down to Business is a weekly small business advice column featured in The World Newspaper, originally published online by the Oregon Small Business Development Center Network , and republished here with permission. ]. Accounting Strategy'

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

Henry may have signed up for an unpaid internship, but he certainly didn’t sign up for days where his focus was primarily filing, faxing, answering phones, or fetching lunch for paid employees. Takeaway : Your startup needs to be very careful of how employees behave around young professionals. You read that right.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

For instance, America’s SBDC Oregon offers a variety of services for entrepreneurs, like access to Market Research Institute data, and business advising for veterans through its Veterans Mean Business program. They can also help startups think through things like how to grow and when to hire their first employee.

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Up and Running

MAY 31, 2012

Jesse Thomas, of Springfield, Oregon, was an amateur triathlete. ” His employees care deeply about the company, says Jesse, acknowledging that in some ways they want to see Picky Bars grow faster than the founders do. “It’s amazing to have employees so emotionally invested in what they do.”

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Up and Running

MARCH 28, 2013

We’re trying to vastly expand into any other kind of market that we can with video production, as well as getting bands from outside of Eugene and Oregon to come to the studio. Really, it’s about being personable and being a good employee to the artist. We have the potential to be one of the best studios in Oregon and the Northwest.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2018

It baffles me when companies have products that their own employees don’t use. The solution to this problem would, of course, be a laptop with two screens—now, who is willing to help me start the company? Even if you work for someone else, try to get into the habit of finding the pain points. In short, it makes my life easy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” His name was Chip Kelly and he came off of a very successful stint as the coach of the collegiate Oregon Ducks. Here are some quick guidelines on what I think it takes to build a sense of leadership: 1. A Sense of Purpose.

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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. My favorite business quote is: “A little bit of something is better than a lot of nothing.” Same with agencies or partners.

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Up and Running

APRIL 19, 2016

If you don’t have buy-in from your partners, your employees, and your customers, you just went through a whole lot of something for a whole lot of nothing. Tip #2: Include your employees. The best rebrands come from the bottom up and get all employees involved. See Also: Want Your Team Engaged? Then Lead Them.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2015

Tip #2: Make your employee or sub-contractor a hero. Southwest Airlines knew early on that their employees were key to succeeding in a highly competitive marketplace, and so they made their employees the real heroes. For example, in it’s 44 years of business, Southwest Airlines has never furloughed its employees.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2011

Started’ doesn’t mean joining as an early employee, or investing or advising or helping out. It means looking prospective employees in the eyes and convincing them to leave safe jobs, quit everything and throw their lot in with you. But his There are two kinds of people in the world is too good to pass over, or quote from, or riff on.

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Up and Running

JUNE 1, 2011

Rebecca and 75 employees manufacture REALLY comfortable and ergonomically correct office chairs. He has an MBA from Stanford and degrees with honors from the University of Oregon and the University of Notre Dame. Jim adds this example: Rebecca Boenigk is the president of Neutral Posture, Inc.,

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Up and Running

MAY 11, 2011

And then there are the people you owe money to, the people who owe you money, strategic allies, and your own employees. He has an MBA from Stanford and degrees with honors from the University of Oregon and the University of Notre Dame. If you’re going to build a business, you’re going to have lots of bosses.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

and the fourth largest in its home state of Oregon, after powerhouse brands such as Deschutes, Rogue, and Full Sail. Jason Carriere, owner of Falling Sky Fermentation Supply Shop and co-founder of Falling Sky Brewing, has gone through many twists and turns since Falling Sky opened its first Eugene, Oregon brewpub location in 2012.

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Up and Running

JULY 20, 2011

He built Palo Alto Software from 0 to 40 employees, multimillion dollar sales, no debt, and a 70% market share without outside investment. I first met Tim when I took his course on Business Planning and Entrepreneurship at the University of Oregon in 2008. Today, I’m a marketing manager for his company, Palo Alto Software.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.

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