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Music Entrepreneurship: Portland rap legend Cool Nutz addresses the secrets of his success

Up and Running

A rapper, tour manager and talent manager, Cool Nutz has generated a lot of buzz and revenue for himself and other local artists. We decided that it was time to put it out in retail stores and see how the sales do. It’s no secret: When you think Portland, the first thing that comes to mind definitely isn’t hip-hop.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

ReadWriteStart

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. This is where numerous ventures fail.

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9 Strategies to Increase Your Food Truck Revenue

Up and Running

Here in Portland, Oregon, you can’t swing a stick without hitting half a dozen food trucks serving up a range of delicious options. Between 2008 and 2014, industry revenue increased at an annual rate of 12.4 Expanding beyond the confines of your truck might seem like a big step, but offering delivery is a great way to increase sales.

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Transcript of Everything You Need to Know About Podcasting

Duct Tape Marketing

Obviously, there are a lot of people out there that would love to have this success in the revenue that’s come with that success directly related to podcasting that you have, but I talk a lot of small business owners and actually tell them that one of the little talked about things that podcasting can bring you is access.

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How to Start a Brewery

Up and Running

Now we are growing based on the projections our wholesale partners give us annually in sales. For Falling Sky, that includes a strategic decision to focus on location sales instead of wider distribution. Within any model, there are things breweries can focus on to stand out and increase revenue. Relationships.

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I chatted with them shortly before the pitching started and found out that they are from Portland, Oregon, yay, my home state! you might have 1000 play your game, 50 of them pay, and 1 of them give you half your revenue. Urbanspoon traffic doubled year to year, 7 figure a year revenue, 3 ppl built the company. Ringtone company.

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Sell More By Being Human and Building Relationships

ConversionXL

Looking at not only web pages but also what can be done after the sale has been made to make customers come back again and again. We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved “Bon Voyage!” Customers are real people. We sure did.

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