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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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Before you make critical decisions, let employees and members of the team pitch their ideas. Employees have insights and knowledge you don’t always get as a manager or CEO. All you have to do to tap into these insights is provide the environment for employees to contribute more ideas. You can now apply for an MBA course online.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Brian Brackeen, CEO of Miami-based Kairos also found Miami hard to resist : We were searching things like AngelList, GitHub, different state web sites, then we took all that data and Miami was at the very top of the list in every important category…Cheapest for our employees, and the best tax situation for the company and our workers.

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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. After graduating from Portland State University with a double major in Marketing and Advertising, he spent some time learning Spanish and experiencing all that South America has to offer.

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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. Another is Google Ventures, which works with portfolio companies full-time on design, recruiting, marketing, and engineering.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 29, 2016

You might also consider leasing offices in other independent and entrepreneurial spaces, like this one in Portland (look for something similar where you are). You will also probably want to expand your employee pool by at least a few people. Make sure you are following the letter of the law and not just trying to get free employees.

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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

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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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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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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Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

In her current role, MJ works to align the customer and employee experience with PEMCO’s brand aspirations. The Portland native is happiest when spending time with family, which includes her Seattle public school teacher husband, her adult son and their sweet cat Alice. Diversity goes beyond age, gender and race.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

Bamboo Sushi in Portland, OR is both a benefit corporation and B corp certified. It can also help you attract employees: a recent study from the Intelligence Group found that 64% of millenials (workers age 20 to mid 30s) say they want part of their jobs to be making the world a better place.

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Up and Running

JUNE 1, 2016

Here in Portland, Oregon, you can’t swing a stick without hitting half a dozen food trucks serving up a range of delicious options. The craze for mobile eats has been on the rise. Between 2008 and 2014, industry revenue increased at an annual rate of 12.4 What does it mean to have a “strong concept?”

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Up and Running

JULY 17, 2017

My neighborhood of Alberta in Portland, Oregon, where small local businesses are plentiful. If you’re considering making the leap and starting your own business, you’re likely eager to ensure that you’re making a smart decision. They can use these funds and have the flexibility to do additional training for associates,” says Burch.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The geniuses aren’t the only part of the service experience that customers like, as most stores are heavily-staffed and employees can check out customers right from their iPhones — no waiting in line required. Happy employees very often make happy customers, which is no doubt why many shoppers keep returning to this store. Whole Foods.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Founded by legendary advertiser Leo Burnett in 1935, the company now has 85 offices in 69 countries and more than 9,000 employees. It has over 2,100 employees spread across 22 offices in cities like London, San Francisco, Sao Paolo, Singapore, Tokyo, Melbourne, and Paris. Headquarters: Chicago. Headquarters: San Francisco, California.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2019

It was in a part of Portland that was up and coming and I always loved serving small businesses. John Jantsch: Fast forward to today, I mean, 500 employees, thousands and thousands of customers, all kinds of accolades but it’s interesting because when you started this even in 2003 … I’ve been in business longer than that.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

If I honor your NDA, and I meet a great investor or potential employee or valuable partner for your new venture, I wouldnt be able to tell them about it. or Portland. The biggest value I can probably offer you is that I would talk about what youre working on. The essential design paradigm can be sketched on the back of an envelope.

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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.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

An employee at Red Wagon Creamery serves up a scoop. Now that Red Wagon has a retail storefront, 20 full-time and part-time employees, and is building toward its expansion plans, Stuart keeps a tighter eye on cash flow. “We Add seven to 10 employees. Heart of Chocolate. Raspberry Rickey. Smoked Salt Caramel #6.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2017

To me, the biggest takeaway from my time with John is when he talks about what they look for in employees. Essentially this is a concept that was started on the West Coast in Portland, Oregon. In this interview, Couture shares a bit of what he’s learned and gained along the path of building a wildly successful small, local business.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

” 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. I thought, “Oh yeah, I should try and sell it,” and I didn’t really know what that meant.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2011

Both employees and customers benefit from a business where play and laughter are as treasured as profit and process. A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing. I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

I’d already seen several of my best employees move on to become brewers around town, so I thought I’d look seriously at making that expansion ourselves, keep the team together, make it so homebrewers who worked at the shop could have a way internally to go pro.”. I’d been running the homebrew shop for a while,” says Jason. he explains. “At

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

So what’s the appeal of paying your employees using this form of cryptocurrency? First and foremost, federal and state law may not allow employers to use bitcoin to pay employees’ salaries. You could offer bitcoin as an optional benefit your employees could receive on top of their standard U.S. dollar-based compensation.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

I’ve also had the good fortune to operate and sometimes live in several other fledgling tech corridors – Cambridge, NYC, Portland, Boulder, Santa Fe, Austin, Dallas, SLC, Frankfurt, Paris. Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Google and others are growing their employee base and presence in L.A.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

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?

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Every business today has a community that is made up of its employees, customers, supporters, networks, suppliers, and mentors. Each year for last five years WDS types trek to Portland Oregon to commune at the World Domination Summit. A town, a church, a school, a collection of hobbyists, have all long been identified as communities.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

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. I’d been running the homebrew shop for a while,” says Jason.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the XOXO Festival in Portland Oregon. In 5 months since the program began his revenue is growing, he’s moved out of his basement and has hired his first employees. The Andyies asked me to talk about our Indie.vc experiment and I was more than happy to oblige. And that’s not a joke.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

When most of us think about Walmart, we think about a giant mega-corporation that sucks the will to live out of consumers and employees alike. The Mattress Lot is a shop in Portland, Oregon that was started out of desperation after the shop owner, Michael Hanna, lost his job with Comcast and had trouble finding another one.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

DECEMBER 20, 2020

For most sales teams, it’s not enough to connect with just a single employee at another business in order to make a sale. During cold-calling strategies, when employees are reaching out to these gatekeepers to gain access to the company, they need to have the right strategies in place. Engaging Business Decision Makers.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In terms of your photo, this can be your logo, your storefront, your products, or even some of your employees. Take a look at this post from Portland-based coffee roaster Stumptown’s Instagram : Image via Stumptown Coffee on Instagram. Create great Instagram posts. Focus on top-quality visuals.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Couple that with high demand for technical employees like programmers and engineers, and you’re faced with a difficult hurdle that can require some elbow grease to overcome. You also have to have the passion and drive to contribute to the overall aspirations of the company, and folks like that can be hard to come by. Comfortable and steady!

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 23, 2013

A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure it was in the best possible condition before mailing. 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!” We sure did.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2012

This could mean entire workforces of employees working remotely. The green, sustainable, organic movement has gone mainstream and people everywhere — not just in Portland — are looking to grow their own produce. Imagine a new division to pretty much every single company on Earth. Urban Farming.

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