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JANUARY 5, 2015

We’ve preached and practiced the lean approach to business and, while I still strongly believe in it, I have come to the conclusion that we haven’t done a good job connecting with and engaging our customers. ” Photo, Wikimedia Commons: Mount Hood reflected in Mirror Lake, Oregon.

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JULY 16, 2015

Beginning as a small red cart in Eugene, Oregon, today Red Wagon Creamery has a downtown storefront, local retail distribution, and online ordering. We wanted ice cream that we make from scratch,” Emily says, “to showcase local, Oregon dairy, and using local, seasonal fruit, berries, and produce.”. Again, sales tripled. “By

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

They also offer resources for market research and consulting on how to efficiently scale operations as your business grows. Help growing and marketing your business. SBDC advisors can help brainstorm strategies and address problem areas, like how to lean up your manufacturing processes. Find your local SBDC office here. .

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MARCH 30, 2015

I view pitches regularly as a member of an angel investment group in Oregon, and as a judge for three intercollegiate and international business plan contests. My latest book, “Lean Business Planning” has a chapter on these pitches, which is also on the website as “Your Business Pitch.”

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JANUARY 8, 2019

It can be as simple as a short, Lean Business Plan that serves as a strategic roadmap for your business, or as comprehensive as a formal business plan that instills confidence in bank lenders and investors. Remember, if you just need a Lean Business Plan, not a formal business plan, shorter is better. So be sure to edit thoroughly!

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JULY 17, 2017

My neighborhood of Alberta in Portland, Oregon, where small local businesses are plentiful. Filling new market needs. If you’re looking for more resources on how to get started with your business plan, our business planning guide is a good starting point, as is our introduction to Lean Planning.

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MAY 31, 2016

He started from his dorm room at the University of Oregon in 1996; he sold his company, Rumblefish.com, for $27 million in 2015. If you’re a LivePlan user, determining your strategy and tactics can be as simple and direct as filling out the pitch page in LivePlan, which defines market, strategy, tactics, and so forth.

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MAY 15, 2019

In such a crowded market, making good beer and opening the doors isn’t enough anymore. The ColdFire Brewing team meets to plan marketing. These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. Watch your finances.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. See Also Shoestring Marketing Budget? Starting a Business cat cafe lean planning' However, the interest in cat cafes stateside is certainly growing. An entrepreneurial epiphany.

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MARCH 15, 2016

Is there a specific hole in the clothing market that you think you know how to fill? If you’re not seeking bank or investor funding, you can probably get away with a lean business plan. Do your market research. Who is your ideal customer, and what does your target market look like? What Is Target Marketing?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Step 5: Marketing your farm and products. Gregory Heilers has helped on two startup farms: his father’s 200-acre grass-fed beef and goat farm, which also includes an orchard, a berry patch, and a vegetable garden, with areas set aside for future logging; and on a seven-acre organically grown market garden in upstate New York.

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MARCH 13, 2019

There are no good Chinese restaurants in Eugene, Oregon.”. Too many entrepreneurs start their elevator pitch by describing their solution: a product or service that they think the market needs. Know your target market. Market segmentation. How big is your potential market? Describe your solution.

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JULY 3, 2015

Lara Galloway ( @mombizcoach ) joins the show to discuss niche marketing. Check out Tim Berry’s book, Lean Business Planning , coming soon. What is niche marketing (with Lara Galloway, the @mombizcoach)? Well that’s where the lean planning comes in. Well that’s where the lean planning comes in.

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MARCH 11, 2015

The opportunity when I got to pitch on stage in front of 400 angel investors was for the largest angel investor conference in the Pacific northwest called Angel Oregon, and we competed with 60 other companies. I have some entrepreneurs who are in Gaza, who are in Cairo, who are in New Jersey, and I’m in Oregon.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Human Resources and Conflict Resolution (22:32): Read more: Oregon’s New Sick Leave Law. Peter: I’m feeling agile, I’m feeling lean, nice and spry. Jonathan: I don’t know about the agility thing, but you’re looking lean. How do you keep it lean? Trevor’s recommended HR tool: Zenefits.

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JULY 14, 2015

What if something dramatically changes in the market? I’d implemented a business plan including marketing, engagement, sales strategy and realized a few months in that it wasn’t servicing a key influence or in the sales process. Or you have a product in a patent but no [inaudible 00:04:36] bring you to market.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Second, it set a cultural norm at my startups, first at Supermac as the VP of Marketing, then at Rocket Science as the CEO and at E.piphany as President. Alaska , Wyoming , Colorado , Washington , Oregon, Maine.) Eric Ries’s astute observations about engineering and Lean Startups make the same point. Long vacations.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Part 1: Bend, Oregon Ecosystem and Entrepreneurs. Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

With the help of my friend Jeff, from the University of Oregon, I’ve been looking at academic research on business planning—the actual science around planning and how it impacts both startups and existing businesses. They create budgets, set sales goals, and document their marketing and sales strategies.

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MARCH 9, 2015

Over the past few months, with the help of my friend Jeff, from the University of Oregon, I’ve been looking at academic research on business planning—the actual science around planning and how it impacts both startups and existing businesses. See Also Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster.

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