Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2012

At Bplans, we’re proud of our home state of Oregon. For the first time ever, start-ups in Oregon have many, many places they can go for help, compete for funding, and feel like they get mentoring, advice, and support — without having to relocate to the Silicon Valley or Seattle.” So what do you think?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

By applying Silicon Valley principles to Wall Street practices, fintechs have abstracted the actual payments process into simple, discreet API call. Ralph Perdomo is a research analyst and writer at Nvoicepay , a fintech company headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

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Up and Running

MARCH 31, 2010

We moved from Palo Alto, California to Eugene, Oregon. We voted with our feet, moving from the world’s startup capital to a comfortable university town (the University of Oregon is here) in Oregon. And I bet he likes being in the so-called Silicon Valley better than in Italy. And we’re glad we did.

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Up and Running

MAY 31, 2012

Jesse Thomas, of Springfield, Oregon, was an amateur triathlete. That makes this a lot different than my previous startup experience, which was a very typical Silicon Valley startup where we took on venture capital and worked 80-100 hours a week. “Our top priority is competition.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Just returned from a golf trip to Bandon Dunes , Oregon. And even if he built it, would anyone come to this remote Oregon outpost?" ProfessorVC. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Convention wisdom said it was impossible. Well, built it he did and they have come.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2011

The view I chose above shows how people move into Santa Clara County, CA (Silicon Valley) from the north central areas, and from there they tend to move out to the West Coast and Texas. What does this tell us about entrepreneurship and the Silicon Valley. The patterns are radically different.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2011

The view I chose above shows how people move into Santa Clara County, CA (Silicon Valley) from the north central areas, and from there they tend to move out to the West Coast and Texas. What does this tell us about entrepreneurship and the Silicon Valley. The patterns are radically different.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Then in 1992 we moved to Eugene, Oregon. At least Palo Alto sort of says Stanford and Silicon Valley. Thank heavens we weren’t living in Boring, Oregon. Or Drain, Oregon. Moving is easier than renaming. And ours, while a problem, could be a lot worse. Or Hell, Michigan. Too generic. Too vanilla.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

In hindsight this list looks pretty organized but in reality we made it up as we went along, accompanied with all the husband and wife struggles of being married and trying to raise a family in Silicon Valley. Most Silicon Valley startups have great policies for having your dog at work but not your kids.) Long vacations.

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Up and Running

MAY 19, 2010

Here’s an interesting idea in prizes for business plan contests: The winner of Princeton’s competition on Friday May 28 gets a one-hour meeting with Silicon Valley venture capital legend Sequoia Capital , plus two round-trip tickets from the East Coast. The $30 includes the full event, lunch and cocktails.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

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. — As a transplanted Silicon Valley VC and now a regional investor, I often get asked, “How do we go about building up our local tech ecosystem?”.

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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. Silicon Valley businesses like to call the act of changing strategic direction “pivoting.” University of Oregon.

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2015

Over the past few months, 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. Silicon Valley businesses like to call this “pivoting.” University of Oregon.

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