Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2018

With the help of my friend Jeff, from the University of Oregon, I’ve been looking at academic research on business planning—the actual science around planning and how it impacts both startups and existing businesses. Regardless of the name, it’s all forward-looking planning. University of Oregon. 6 Ding, E., & Hursey, T.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Legal isn’t the whole issue with names. Lots of legal names work fine until you grow and run into somebody else with the same name, in the same business area, who had it first. But when they started to grow, Victoria’s Secret would have had legal right to force them to come up with a new name.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Covering the blossoming startup industry in Portland, Oregon, and the Silicon Forest. Name (required). I welcome any tips, product announcements, stories, or rumors that involve Portland, Oregon, or Silicon Forest technology. Oregon Entrepreneur Network (OEN). Silicon Florist. Subscribe via RSS population: Blog.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. Domain Name/Basic Site. Why use your real name? We require the use of your full name to authenticate your identity.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Well, again, I appreciate you stopping by and the next time, hopefully I'm in Hood River, Oregon. Scroll back to top Sign up to receive email updates Enter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast. We can connect in real life. Nicole Bernard (18:55): Yes, that would be great.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Zoning map of Eugene, Oregon. In this case, those things fit the bill and it was down to what’s in a name, or rather, a street name. You can also look to an attorney for help through the process. A simple Google search should turn up a zoning map of your area as well. Give it a try.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Jeremy’s entrepreneurial journey has led Melvin Brewing to recently be named the Brewmaster and Brewery Group of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival. Their beer is currently shipped to Portland, Oregon, Denver, Boise, and Seattle. Product is shipped to Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and San Diego on occasion.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Mike founded GrubHub in his spare bedroom and grew it into the multi-billion-dollar online food delivery colossus that is a household name. Colossus, that is a household name, probably be, became even more so the last couple years says leaving GrubHub. I rode my bicycle from Virginia to Oregon. My guest today is Mike Evans.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2017

But, it takes a lot more than a Google search for ‘criminal defense lawyer Oregon’ to find the perfect match for you. Often, the easiest way to find the best criminal defense lawyer is to ask around and see whose name gets mentioned the most. Social media networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.). Chances are you know some lawyers.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

Beginning as a small red cart in Eugene, Oregon, today Red Wagon Creamery has a downtown storefront, local retail distribution, and online ordering. We wanted ice cream that we make from scratch,” Emily says, “to showcase local, Oregon dairy, and using local, seasonal fruit, berries, and produce.”.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2015

The positive reception of the brand increased to the point of being named Tech Company of the Year by USA Today. For just $100,000, 20 computers and a free website design, the company bought the naming rights to the small Oregon town of Halfway for one year – renaming the town Half.com, becoming the first dotcom city in America.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

I truly believe this is the year where quantum dots make a name for themselves in agriculture, and so its about marketing, sales, manufacturing, and generally about traction in the market. One worked at a different quantum dot startup based in the UK that’s now publicly traded, another built a vertically integrated cannabis company in Oregon.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 8, 2015

We save quite some data on a test: it’s ID, name, Device category, Template, Experiment Status (Running, Finished, Building, etc.), ’ Perhaps the best example of this is the Oregon Ducks’ college football team. Both ideas and actual experiments are being added in by the team who is responsible for it.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 28, 2011

I couldn’t resist, so I put my name in the hat. I chatted with them shortly before the pitching started and found out that they are from Portland, Oregon, yay, my home state! I saw a posting on the Women 2.0 I had won. The winner of AppCircus was Geoloqi , a secure, real-time mobile and web platform for location sharing.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2014

For instance, it has helped the town of The Dalles, Oregon (the location of one of its data centers), implement a free downtown WiFi network, and it has donated $8.6 million to Oregon schools and non-profits. I recall purchasing a suit from a salesman named Fitz at Rosenblum’s in Jacksonville, Florida. Rosenblum’s.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Clarity is the name of the game. Funding is important to me because.”) The way your plan is written can give you the edge you need when pitching your dream. ##### Today’s guest blog post is by Mahesh Raj Mohan, a freelance writer and editor based in Portland, Oregon. Avoid conversational, first-person writing. (“Hi,

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Despite the name, the Bing Fund doesn’t require its companies to work with the Bing search engine or the technologies associated with Bing, including speech recognition, image processing, video, local/geo/map technologies, and so forth. “We will invest in startups that we feel are doing disruptive things online,” Sood said.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 21, 2016

If you don’t know that name, he’s the guy that started Nike. He was a runner growing up, and ran track for the University of Oregon. I’m currently reading the book, Shoe Dog , by Phil Knight. And apparently, he’s a terrific writer.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 11, 2013

I’m a member of an angel investment group based where I live in Oregon. Scalable infrastructure, software tools, subscription services, to name a few, are scalable. And I watch Shark Tank, the TV show, in which a select group of seasoned investors (the sharks) pick and choose investments from business pitches.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2018

When I moved to Eugene, Oregon, I bought my microwave, kettle, toaster, and vacuum cleaner from Kohls, knowing that when they packed in, as electronics always do, I can take them back even if that’s in four years time when I’m guaranteed to have lost or thrown out my receipt. In short, it makes my life easy.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

The college recruiting experience is broken," says Andrew Maguire, whose experiences as a student led him to found InternMatch , a startup that, as the name suggests, matches prospective student interns with organizations.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 28, 2011

I couldn’t resist, so I put my name in the hat. I chatted with them shortly before the pitching started and found out that they are from Portland, Oregon, yay, my home state! I saw a posting on the Women 2.0 I had won. The winner of AppCircus was Geoloqi , a secure, real-time mobile and web platform for location sharing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

His name was Chip Kelly and he came off of a very successful stint as the coach of the collegiate Oregon Ducks. I’ve spent hours this week reading about the firing of the head coach and personnel manager of the football team I support – The Philadelphia Eagles. He had a sense of purpose and everybody knew what it was.

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Up and Running

MAY 18, 2015

While quotes will maintain the use of the name oDesk, we will refer to the site as Upwork. I’m home at 11am on a weekday because I work remotely; I am employed by Palo Alto Software, but as they are located in Eugene, Oregon, and I am currently living in Portland, I am rarely in the office.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

If your business is in a competitive state like Oregon or Colorado, plan for low-cost grow operations to achieve the best quality with the funds you will be able to raise. In your community, it’s a good idea to build a close-knit network and visit wholesale and local stores instead of searching for name-brands.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 9, 2016

They exploit the close association that successful brands have with their logo designs, names and other marketing tools. One big brand took this to the extreme in Seattle by entirely replacing its name and logo from some of its stores. About Guest Author: Joshua Beam is a professional writer from Norther Oregon.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2014

a California corporation, became an Oregon corporation in 1992, and the California corporation died in 1994. Or they’ve been purchased by a larger business or two businesses combine, and these are like successful exits in growth which shows up as a business dying.” But actually there was an Infoplan, Inc.,

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 22, 2010

She’s buying a business she’s worked at for five years, and wants to change its name. She thinks a new name would be better and, as I read the email, I sure like the new one better. But she asks “if there is an additional fee to change the name.&# I decided to answer that question here. Not necessarily.

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Up and Running

JUNE 1, 2016

Here in Portland, Oregon, you can’t swing a stick without hitting half a dozen food trucks serving up a range of delicious options. ” Your food truck should have a cohesive design, a clever name, an established brand, and a unique offering. Sometimes, we’d even name the waffle after the Tweeter!

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

While you might be doing great in terms of direct revenue impact of your website, pause and consider what in God's name is happening to that other 98.3% "unconverted" traffic on your site? Name, a unique persistent customer id (Geek ID), the keyword the person came on and their underwear size. Well just assume. :).

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

What can a place like The Barn Light here in Eugene, Oregon do to content market? I’ve got a friend here in Oregon, he makes guitars. Peter: So you’re saying they should print Oregon? Peter: Candice, we’ve got a bar in our office basement here. I’m not interested in buying frames. Is that right?

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

The company is named after their son Jude, who was experiencing health problems before it was determined that he should be on a gluten-free diet. ” That’s what got me connected with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center and Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center.

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Diego Basch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

I followed the MongoDB Ruby tutorial , which shows you how simple it is to insert documents into Mongo: doc = {"name" => "MongoDB", "type" => "database", "count" => 1, "info" => {"x" => 203, "y" => '102'}} coll.insert(doc). It worked just fine for all of three weeks.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

At the front of the office, we’re creating an office map showing the names of our portfolio companies, and the photos of the employees that work at each. Given that social capital correlates with physical health (see Bowling Alone ), we want to encourage people in the office to get to know one another. Chair photo credit: watz ).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2012

Professor Mark Thoma at the University of Oregon shares some of his thoughts on issues like banks, the economic crisis, government budgets, and more. Based on a book of the same name by Professor Daniel Diermeier, this blog touches on issues of reputation management, especially how corporations can successfully navigate a major crisis.

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Up and Running

MARCH 15, 2016

Pick a name for your clothing company. You might already have your dream name picked out for your clothing company, but if not, don’t sweat it—it’s not uncommon for choosing a business name to take a little brainstorming. For more resources on how to choose a name for a clothing company: How to Name Your Company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2012

I’m taking some vacation time this week and I’m actually going to stand waste deep in the Columbia River in Oregon and cast for Trout. Your ideal client conjures up these feelings when someone mentions your business name. Don’t worry I won’t hurt any I’m strictly a catch and release kind of guy.)

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