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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

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Revisit and update it regularly by comparing your forecasts to your actuals and adjusting as necessary. Here’s a brief example: The problem : There is a lack of affordable pediatric and gynecological care available in coastal areas of Lane County, Oregon. Or maybe you will want to extend your practice’s hours of operation.

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How to Balance Cash Flow in a Seasonal Business

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Seasonal businesses are very common, especially in locales where travel and tourism are important industries, where weather has an impact on outdoor business operations, and where retail sales slow during the winter months. A good cash flow forecast will help with analysis of funds available and costs throughout the year.

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Starting a Nonprofit: Chapter 1 of The ‘RIDE Eugene’ Story

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In Oregon, nearly 30 percent of all traffic fatalities are related to drunk driving. In his research, Jonathan uncovered existing services similar to RIDE in other cities— Be My DD , for example, operates in much of the country—but none of them were nonprofit organizations. Right now, prevention is a hassle.

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How to Grow Your Business by Setting Goals [Webinar]

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Don’t set a sales goal or a sales forecast with a hundred line items in there. You’ve got a three year forecast with your goals, monthly for the first 12 months, and then yearly for the next two years. Same month, last year, the full last year, look at your history because that will help inform your goal setting and you forecasting.

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

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In this guide to starting a brewery, we’re going to talk with brewers who’ve been-there-done-that, and we’ll get insights from experts in supporting industries such as insurance and finance, as well as discuss regulatory issues. Watch your finances. The ColdFire Brewing team meets to plan marketing. Martin Cove Brewing Company.

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

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Peter: Well, fortunately I know how to pronounce his name because I felt and that was some of his incubator work but Joe is a local entrepreneurial champion here in Oregon. Here in Oregon, we’ve got some in Portland that are really great and then this article talks about some here in Eugene, Oregon which are doing well but fairly new.