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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

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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Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Steve Blank

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Here’s Part 1 of Dino’s story….

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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

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A Lean Business Plan might be a better fit if you simply need to think through all the different aspects of your business. A Lean Plan will be shorter, and it lends itself to quick revisions, but both types follow the same general outline. They tend to be lengthier and more detailed.

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SWOT Analysis Examples

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Botanical Bounty is an Oregon-based perennial farm that grows a variety of botanical, medicinal plants. This is one area in which being a small local firm could be a major advantage, but international market research and more information about the government export initiatives are required. Example SWOT analysis: Botanical Bounty.

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3 Things I Look for in Angel Investing

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Our group is reviewing companies and will award a six-figure investment in May at an event held May 13 in Eugene, Oregon, my home town. Without going into detail here, our deal terms lean towards companies that will be getting a larger investment from professional venture capital within a year or so. Likelihood of exit.

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Small Businesses and Startups – 3 New Years Reflections and Resolutions

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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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3 Website Trends That Customers (and Business Owners) Will Love

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My advice for you, with the web being so oversaturated (and consumers being over stimulated), is to think like you are Google’s famous ultra-lean homepage: if you only had to pick a handful of things, what the priority? Andy Hayes is a creative web producer based in sunny Portland, Oregon.