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

Steve Blank

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Today with every city, state and country trying to build out a technology cluster, following Dino’s progress can provide others with a roadmap of what’s worked and what has not. Tech investing is risky.

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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. Encourage your patients to review you online, too.

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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. As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. Pretend that you are the investor.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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What is a Social Enterprise?

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According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S. states for-profit companies can accept donations and nonprofit companies earn revenue, which dispels the myths that a nonprofit can’t make money, or a for-profit venture would miss out on donations. economy in general—U.S. charitable giving fell by only 10 percent.

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The Latest Questions Small Businesses Are Asking

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A venture feasibility study analyzes an idea from several perspectives: market opportunity, competition, resources available, resource gaps, financial viability, operational issues, intellectual property rights, development timeline and technology needs. As a licensed professional, a CPA has to adhere to a code of professional ethics.

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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.