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Willamette Angel Conference Invests More than $450K

Up and Running

Yesterday’s Willamette Angel Conference (WAC) 2013 event invested more than $465,000 in four Oregon startups, highlighted by more than $250,000 in Portland-based Sonivate , which has developed a fingertip-mounted ultrasound probe that enables imaging while leaving both hands free to do work with simultaneous tactile feedback. .

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You Need to Be Listed on These 5 High-Visibility Directory Sites

The Startup Magazine

Nike’s LinkedIn page notes that the Portland-based athletic giant is named for the Greek goddess of victory — one of the only mentions of this fun little fact anywhere in Nike’s vast marketing aperture. Wikipedia is a fantastic place to see and be seen.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. client / Washington, DC ($500 Referral Reward) Developer/Partner / Rocket Whale, Inc.

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10 Entertaining Things to Check out While You’re Waiting in Line Today

Up and Running

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. Have you heard about these Uber awkward PR blunders?

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Transcript of Everything You Need to Know About Podcasting

Duct Tape Marketing

All the important SEO tools that you need for pay traffic, social media, PR and of course, SEO. I’m on a Heil PR-40. The Heil PR-40 is a broadcast quality mic, but until you really generate significant revenue, the ATR 2100 is all you need. Check it out at semrush.com/partner/ducttapemarketing. They want the specifics.

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California Startup Gold – bring it here to scale it

Scalable Startup

I’ve also had the good fortune to operate and sometimes live in several other fledgling tech corridors – Cambridge, NYC, Portland, Boulder, Santa Fe, Austin, Dallas, SLC, Frankfurt, Paris. Great PR and finance firms, but not many startups. If you plop your company here, great things could happen. That has all changed.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I started my company to increase the awareness about marketing within the small business community (what it is, what it is not, how to know you’re doing it right, etc) as I come across many that confuse marketing with PR or sales and are frustrated when their marketing programs don’t create the sales boost they expect.

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