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#TrackThis Episode 4: How Do You Measure Happiness?

Up and Running

Matt : Hi, and welcome to episode number four of #TrackThis, small business tracking tips from CEOs. In Oregon, there’s an organization that actually does anonymous surveys, and then comes up with a list of the hundred best companies to work for in Oregon, which Palo Alto Software has been a part of for many years.

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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. Big companies that invest in small businesses play an important role in creating jobs.

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Small business and startup issues: net neutrality and H.R. 1

crowdSPRING Blog

Small businesses which are built on the Internet and dependent on it for their livelihoods are threatened by an amendment to the spending bill passed by the House last week. The amendment introduced by Oregon Representative Greg Walden, specifically prohibits the FCC from enforcing its Net Neutrality rules , passed late last year.

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How to Grow Your Business by Setting Goals [Webinar]

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We all have goals for our business, but sometimes we forget how important it is to clearly define these goals. This is especially true when it comes to financial goal setting for small businesses, where often financial goals are only vaguely defined or based too heavily on assumptions. Small Business segment.

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

Up and Running

He was a talented musician—a drummer who built a business around selling music rights for films and ads. He started from his dorm room at the University of Oregon in 1996; he sold his company, Rumblefish.com, for $27 million in 2015. You don’t have to include long eloquent texts to make a business plan for yourself.

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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. million in total sales last year, and over forty percent of our total business was just our subscription service.

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How to Start a Brewery

Up and Running

and the fourth largest in its home state of Oregon, after powerhouse brands such as Deschutes, Rogue, and Full Sail. Jason Carriere, owner of Falling Sky Fermentation Supply Shop and co-founder of Falling Sky Brewing, has gone through many twists and turns since Falling Sky opened its first Eugene, Oregon brewpub location in 2012.

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