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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

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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. The solution : Dr. Gardner plans to open Ocean Lane Outpatient Care to serve smaller Oregon coastal communities scattered outside of major towns with major hospitals. Operations.

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The Latest Questions Small Businesses Are Asking

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A venture feasibility study analyzes an idea from several perspectives: market opportunity, competition, resources available, resource gaps, financial viability, operational issues, intellectual property rights, development timeline and technology needs. If not, the business idea is not feasible. Often this is not true.

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The Next Generation Of Funding For The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs

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Startups are hungry for credit, but banks and other financial institutions have never been stricter with their financing parameters. They’re using metrics that are often unworkable in the current business environment, causing growing businesses to look elsewhere for capital and increasingly towards alternative forms of financing.

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Meet the Grand Prize Entrepreneurs of the BEC Boost

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She sells her products in 11 stores and two restaurants in and around Oregon House, California, where Freja’s Foods currently operates. From left to right: Ken Freeman, Freja Nelson and Mike Roessler. “I did not think I would win but I was really trying to win,” Freja wrote me in an email.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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They attended property management association meetings in Oregon outside of the technology echo chamber of California to get a sense for people’s daily problems. Many people at a young startup are trying to manage their finances like the rest of their user base. What changed for us was Tim Barker arrived.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

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It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. We try to recruit investment partners who bring startup operating experience. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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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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