YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2014

Now in its third year, FOCUS100 was launched by entrepreneur Kathryn Finney, who was named a Champion of Change by The White House in 2013 for her leadership in building a growing pipeline of urban tech entrepreneurs. Altman Company Building, a city landmark located at 365 5th Avenue in Manhattan.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

Just ask the people of Portland, Seattle, Boulder, Iowa, Princeton, Dallas or countless other cities that don’t have enough venture capital. So … Am I looking to add 8 trips / year to [name your location not already on my annual itinerary]. You can build a meaningful company just about wherever these days. Ask SuperCell.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

From Warby Parker … To Bonobos … To UNTUCKit … And at Parachute Home we’ve also begun our massive retail rollout with our first two locations in Venice and Portland. But if you look at the trends, many of the best DTC brands have embraced physical.

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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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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2011

And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Portland too. As such, the city is a blend of both major media and gaming companies, as well as local, indie businesses - Sierra Wireless, Pixar, THQ, and Vivendi/Activision, to name just a few. Then there's Seattle, of course.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 4, 2010

First off, how could you NOT love a company named TrashCo? Seriously, what a great name. And they are available at most Safeway stores in Seattle, Portland, and Northern CA; at most Vons in Southern CA; at most HEB’s in Texas; and at all Price Choppers in New York State/Western CT.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

One of the 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Arist was also named one of 20 education-focused finalists in Fast Company ’s 2019 World-Changing Ideas competition , which recognizes companies, non-profits, and individuals that commit to social good through breakthrough innovation. “Our As a high school student in Portland, Ore.,

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

One of the 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Arist was also named one of 20 education-focused finalists in Fast Company ’s 2019 World-Changing Ideas competition , which recognizes companies, non-profits, and individuals that commit to social good through breakthrough innovation. “Our As a high school student in Portland, Ore.,

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2016

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I started thinking about my company’s name by being honest about the criticism in my industry. 1 – Clear Company Value.

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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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The Entrepreneurial Mind

AUGUST 5, 2010

Except this entrepreneur was a 7-year-old named Julie Murphy. Her business was a lemonade stand at the Last Thursday monthly art fair in Northeast Portland. So when Multnomah County shut down an enterprise last week for operating without a license, you might just sigh and say, there they go again.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The studio’s design talent boasts some famous names among the list of partners, including Paula Scher, Michael Beirut, Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Harry Pearce, and many more. Since then, it has taken on design work for clients large and small, including big names like The Economist and Apple. Headquarters: London. SuperUnion.

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2016

After graduating last month from the University of Portland with focuses in marketing, social media, theater, and entrepreneurship, I am thrilled to pass on my story to fledgling entrepreneurs. I had to research the best value product to put in my machine—and the cheapest place to buy it.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

There are folks who dont like me, or who are annoyed by me, but if Id broken somebodys trust in regard to their work, I guarantee itd be just about the first thing youd find when you Google my name. I would love to be plagiarized and embroiled in a lawsuit--the curiosity factor alone would boost my sales and name recognition exponentially.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

While roughly 33% of our investments continue to be in California (San Francisco, Los Angeles, and a third city to be named in a week or so) and 33% of our investments are in Colorado (primarily Boulder and Denver), we have developed deep networks in many different cities, including Boston, New York, Seattle, Portland, and Minneapolis through the other (..)

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 21, 2014

So you type your name into Google, and sure enough, there’s your website, right where it was. I typed “Plumbing in Portland, Maine” and I got these results. Here are three really easy steps to getting a Google review: Type your company name and city into Google. You have a website! What gives?

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Up and Running

JANUARY 3, 2019

Here at Palo Alto Software, we developed a persona named Garrett who drives the bulk of our product decisions. While this may seem obvious, giving your persona a name is a huge step forward in making your persona real. User personas are critical for companies that designing and customizing their own products or services.

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Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

The Portland native is happiest when spending time with family, which includes her Seattle public school teacher husband, her adult son and their sweet cat Alice. We’re competing against younger industries and start-ups as well as established legacy companies armed with name recognition and brand appeal.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 14, 2012

I recently got back from a cross-country road trip where I drove from Chicago to Portland, OR. The name is derived from the Latin words “hora” meaning hour and “azura,” meaning blue. Besides putting nearly 5,000 miles on our rental car, my travel companion and I also became connoisseurs of gas station coffee.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Niketown is the retail name for global athletic brand Nike, and their stores have been popping up around the world since the first opened in 1990 in downtown Portland, Ore. Visitors can donate and build stuffed animals at several major events throughout the year, which are given to various family and child-centered causes.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 6, 2019

John Jantsch: Let’s get your definition of ultralearning since that’s the name of the book. I’ll give a shout out to World Domination Summit in Portland. Scott, thanks for joining us. Scott Young: Yeah, thanks for having me here. I saw you speaking at one of my favorite conferences in the world.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

One great example is Little Boxes PDX , which is Portland, Oregon’s answer to major chains with deep discounts: local stores offering discounts are all listed on a map of the city and smart phone app, and there’s a raffle with tons of different small business-related prizes. billion was grossed in the U.S. You go girl!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

So the graphic is at [00:19:10] and as you said it’s you know — kind of my vision — my attempt anyway to visualise sort of a marketing stack priority checklist and so the idea is you start with things that every small business needs, things like accounting software and a domain name and a website and those kinds of things.

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Bryce Dot VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

In that same time we’ve hosted 4 meetups in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco and Portland. We don’t have a clever acronym or name for this instrument yet, but I’m sure we’ll come up with something great.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

Red Wagon has been named “Best of Eugene Frozen Treats” by local newspaper “Eugene Weekly,” and their ice creams have been featured in food blogs and magazines such as “Sunset” and AAA’s “Via.” Increased revenue has gone hand-in-hand with public acclaim. Going big—but beneficially.

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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. As I write this, I am currently sitting in my home office, overlooking my sleepy little neighborhood in Southeast Portland. Never fear—they are still essentially the same site.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the XOXO Festival in Portland Oregon. I know it’s an uncomfortable contradiction because every time I talk to Andy Baio about it, the conversation starts with, oh, that name. Are you really going to use that name? Because that name. He doesn’t like the name.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

I wasn’t as early as you, of course, but I was there early enough where I was able to land grab and really get a name and momentum that I’ve continued to be able to build momentum, momentum, momentum. Once you’ve heard your name a couple times, that cool feeling rubs off. It’s not niche enough. I land grabbed.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

I’ve been involved with several amazing companies throughout Northern and Southern Cal; I have expanded, launched, M&A’d, relaunched, liquidated, succeeded and failed, you name it.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

I cannot name the company, but heard from a friend that a very large SF-based startup that’s looking to build a new location outside the Bay Area offered relocation packages for folks to move and it filled up to 100 requests in a day.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2019

John Jantsch: So, you’ve been doing this conference for a few years, and I guess the first question I have is, what’s with the name? ” Rich Brooks: I couldn’t use the same name, and I wanted to bring in search and mobile marketing to the mix, because I feel like social is just one aspect of what we should be doing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 9, 2019

Grant Baldwin: When you start looking up… if you just looked up let’s say the Missouri Association of Accountants, they may not be able to afford some bigwig big name speaker with a $20,000 speaking fee.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 11, 2016

When you picked your business name, hopefully you checked that you’d be able to use that name on as many social profiles as possible. Ideally, you should be able to pick an Instagram handle that matches your business name. This past August, Portland was hit with a sudden heatwave, with the mercury threatening triple digits.

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Andrew Payne

APRIL 20, 2014

Cities want the hospitality tax (Airbnb is moving to collect taxes in New York, San Francisco, and Portland) and the hospitality industry doesn’t want the competition. Can you name any other industry where a manufacturer can’t sell their own product?

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