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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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#TrackThis Episode 4: How Do You Measure Happiness?

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It’s never too early to start thinking about how you’re going to cultivate good culture at your company, and what kinds of effects you want that culture to have on how your company operates. You’ve got to be able to have some metrics that you can actually track and judge exactly how you’re doing on that.

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The Next Generation Of Funding For The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs

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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. Startups are hungry for credit, but banks and other financial institutions have never been stricter with their financing parameters.

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

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After doing my MBA at the University of Oregon, I decided I wanted to try to become a professional triathlete. It was definitely a mom and pop shop operation, just making the bars out of our kitchen for the first year and a half. See Also The 5 Metrics You Need to Track for Your Subscription Business to Succeed. We did about $1.1

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Profoundly Strange Subscription Businesses (That You Could Start Too)

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If the sound of unlimited dog washes each month is something that fills you with a sense of relief—no more dealing with all that mud and smelly dog yourself—look no further than Bare Bones Dogwash, a little Oregon-based doggie boutique. Plans start at $39 per month. BarkBox: A Monthly Box of Dog Goodies.

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How to Start a Brewery

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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.

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How to Grow Your Business by Setting Goals [Webinar]

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In the construction industry, I just heard from a bunch of people here in Oregon, I sit on the school bond review committee and we and we were looking for a construction cost of new schools that are getting built and the construction cost have gone up almost 30 percent. Here’s some other metrics that you can look at. But they don’t.