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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. Part 1: Bend, Oregon Ecosystem and Entrepreneurs. Success depends on finding startups that have identified acute customer pains in large markets where conditions are ripe for a new entrant.

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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

Up and Running

Target market: Who is your ideal patient? 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. Target market. A formal market analysis can help verify that there’s a need for your particular practice in your intended location. .

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The Next Generation Of Funding For The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

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. Another is Google Ventures, which works with portfolio companies full-time on design, recruiting, marketing, and engineering.

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How to Come up with Hundreds of Business Ideas

Up and Running

There is no stand that I have seen on the market to solve my problem—only small stands for a time long past when people bought fewer but more expensive items. This is why venture capitalists like Boris Wertz see value in investing in those that have a lot of experience in the market they’re pitching their idea for.

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How to Grow Your Business by Setting Goals [Webinar]

Up and Running

Think about big categories: salary, marketing, sales, rent, utilities. I’m not trying to give a commercial for MasterCard product because there are other products out there but Master Card for example has a product called Market Vision. Is that how you get that cost or is it just marketing efforts?

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How to Write a Business Plan for an Artist’s Business

Up and Running

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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What’s the Secret to Your Success? With Jesse Thomas of Picky Bars

Up and Running

After doing my MBA at the University of Oregon, I decided I wanted to try to become a professional triathlete. Our first employees were actually University of Oregon students that came in and made the bars in our house. How did you market your business? How important are metrics to your business? We did about $1.1

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