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

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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. They failed due to: the dearth of deals in the region that have IPO potential and. This is true whether the company is concept stage or ramping revenue.

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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

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If you’ve never written a business plan before, Bplans also offers a library of sample medical business plans that you can review or even download to use as a model. Financial summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable.

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How to Grow Your Business by Setting Goals [Webinar]

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This is Sabrina Parsons, CEO of Palo Alto Software. Preferably using some sort of software tool, Excel, some sort of spreadsheet. You can find your industry, find out what the SIC code is or the NAICS code is for your industry, and you can find out what the average gross margin is for the business that you’re in.

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How to Start a Brewery

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You’re looking for a number of 70 precent or more within five miles of the zip code you desire,” says Ben. “I A used system might be through the door quicker and might save you money up front, but make sure you’ve thoroughly reviewed the system and seller—and remember that when you have problems, you’ll likely be on your own to fix them.

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

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Review your business plan regularly. Committing to regularly reviewing your business plan and financials is a good step toward making more informed, smarter spending decisions, that can have a big impact on a new business’s long term viability. Many brewers avoid that due to perceived qualitative differences,” says Patrick.

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Archiving Test Results: How Effective Organizations Do It

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You’re learning more and more about your customer base, and each test is bringing you more insight, which will lead to more revenue. At Porch, she says, every week they have weekly test roundups, and each report is led by insights (which is above even revenue). Align the hypothesis to the metrics. Image Source. Image Source.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

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” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. Pretend that you are the investor.