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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

My business partner and I wanted the new name to reflect our striving to be a “Kingdom Business” discovering what unique role God wants us to play in the local and global marketplaces. These texts help to form the banks of the river for how we operate as a business. Our financial services firm is named Single Point Partners.

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How to Start a Brewery

Up and Running

For Dan Hughes, Director of Operations at startup brewery ColdFire Brewing, he and his brother have been hard at work on business development and recipe formulation, navigating bureaucracy, and enduring the inevitable delays that come with brewery construction, equipment delivery, and regulatory approval. But they all take so much time.

Oregon 60
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How to Start a Brewery: Growing Your Own Craft Beer Business

Up and Running

While Dan heads up operations, his brother Stephen is head brewer, and their team also includes directors of finance and brand, respectively. The more complex the operating structure of a business , the more information and time required.”. Hire the right team. The ColdFire Brewing team meets to plan marketing.

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From Food Cart to Award-Winning Restaurant: A Secret to Success Story

Up and Running

How did your experiences with a smaller operation such as the Delacata food cart inform and influence your planning when your were starting up Elk Horn Brewing? Having to hire, fire, and lay people off, it’s hard to do. Colleen: Having a good partner and spouse. They really like that. What mistakes had you learned from?

Oregon 60
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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

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. If someone hired you, would you have your lawyer look over the NDA? The trick worked and the hyper-sophisticated AC system hummed into operation, but he was still challenged.

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How I Started a Gluten-Free Cookie Company: With Josh Fegles of Jude’s Foods

Up and Running

” That’s what got me connected with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center and Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center. The way the SBDC works is they’ll partner you up with people who have done what you’re trying to do. We have never hired any employees.

Oregon 60
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My XOXO Talk

Bryce Dot VC

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the XOXO Festival in Portland Oregon. As a venture funded startup, you’re supposed to operate a certain way. Back in 2005 we started a venture firm called OATV, O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures, myself, my partner Tim O’Reilly, and my partner Mark Jacobson.