Up and Running

JUNE 29, 2010

And about 100 miles north of us, near Portland, Clackamas SBDC director Tim Shea offers his Small Business Greenhouse class, three hours on Tuesday nights from September to February, including books and software. Disclosure: I’ve been working with SBDCs since 1995, as part of what I do at Palo Alto Software.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2015

We’re huge fans of the lean startup methodology here at Palo Alto Software, so The Lean Startup is definitely a good place to start, as is The Art of the Start. Pick up some beans from your local roaster (is my Portland showing yet?) For entrepreneurs who want to learn more. A great book (or several) on entrepreneurship. A Hydroflask.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2013

Many reasons, such as better customer service and more technical support, since everyone on the hosting team is an expert in your software platform. Andy Hayes is a creative web producer based in sunny Portland, Oregon. Switching hosting companies isn’t always easy, but I speak from experience when I say that it’s worth investigating.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2011

Wieden+Kennedy, the advertising agency that made the absurdly popular Old Spice campaign on TV and the web called "Smell Like a Man" announced today that it is now accepting applications from brand-friendly tech startups for admission to its incubator program, the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE).

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Additionally, true to their software roots, they’ve got a nice app that you can even use apart from the service to send quick ToDo notes to yourself (or others). . I think you get a discount if you use my referral link. And shout out to my friend Maia who uses FH in creative ways. . What other services am I missing? Previous Summaries.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 30, 2016

I wrote software on an Apple ][ to design the character sets for Centronics printers, ran a lot, learned how to drink beer, got into the drama of the Falklands War , and endured a Tube strike. I worked for PetCom for several summers, putting in 80 – 100 hours per week writing software.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 28, 2011

I chatted with them shortly before the pitching started and found out that they are from Portland, Oregon, yay, my home state! Software strategist. The winner of AppCircus was Geoloqi , a secure, real-time mobile and web platform for location sharing. Congratulations to them. prior Startup Weekend attendees. Mobile payment company.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Portland, Oregon-based Shwood was founded by Eric Singer, whose inspiration for starting the company came from hand-carving a pair of sunglass frames one day out of a Madrone tree limb from his own backyard, adding a rusty pair of cabinet hinges and lenses from a corner store.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

There’s a concentration around several sectors: software, hardware, medical-technology, aviation, and a specialty of Oregon – craft beer brewing. Nearby Portland Oregon (just 160 miles away) is home to over 300 startups; between the two markets, nearly 80 new startups are forming each year. Startups in Bend.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

and Canada… with startups in the Bay area, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, Portland, Seattle, Toronto, and Vancouver. Here are some of the more interesting details to share about our activity in 2012: Version One invested more than $2.5M

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

This allows just about any organization with standard off-the-shelf or up-in-the-cloud accounting software to send payments with the click of a mouse. Ralph Perdomo is a research analyst and writer at Nvoicepay , a fintech company headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

Once scanned, their software assists staff with routing the item into the proper bin — improving sorting accuracy and lowering the cost of processing. Smarter Sorting already has a live pilot here in Austin, working with Austin Resource Recovery, and has commitments to begin pilots with Portland, OR, Mesa County, CO, and Salt Lake City, UT.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 28, 2011

I chatted with them shortly before the pitching started and found out that they are from Portland, Oregon, yay, my home state! Software strategist. The winner of AppCircus was Geoloqi , a secure, real-time mobile and web platform for location sharing. Congratulations to them. prior Startup Weekend attendees. Mobile payment company.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We’re contact@socialmatchbox.com and we will be happy to get you in touch with the right recruiter or user group to talk to for networking purposes. client / Washington, DC ($500 Referral Reward) Developer/Partner / Rocket Whale, Inc. Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. I spoke with wife and husband team Kristen and Sergio Castillo, whose cat cafe, Purringtons, is set to open in Portland at the end of January. An entrepreneurial epiphany. Kristen says.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

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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. Do you use any diversity hiring tools or software? Diversity goes beyond age, gender and race. About Transformify.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2011

One of the latest incubators to emerge is in not in any of the traditional technology hubs, but in Portland, Ore., The Portland Seed Fund will provide start-ups with mentoring and training, as well as an initial investment of $25,000 to $50,000 and possible follow-on funding, VentureWire reported Monday. Can 100 of these be successful?

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Up and Running

JANUARY 3, 2019

For example, a company that is searching for new customer relationship management (CRM) software might have a senior executive make the purchasing decision, even though she might not be using the software on a daily basis. Here at Palo Alto Software, we developed a persona named Garrett who drives the bulk of our product decisions.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Movies music myspace ONLINE VIDEO politics pop culture privacy Search small business social good social media social networking social networks software sports tech television trending tv twitter verizon video video games viral video web video Wordpress Yahoo youtube Join More Than 2.9

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Up and Running

AUGUST 15, 2016

I’m a big fan of IPAs (I live in Portland, Oregon, after all), and so the IPA Beer of the Month Club would be a subscription service right up my alley. This list wouldn’t be complete without a few software subscription services. Creating a software product is a challenge set apart from the other examples on this list.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Nelson recommends several software platforms that she says keep things efficient over at Theme Dragon. Nelson lives and works in the beautiful city of Portland, OR (where I also hail from), and frequently works from home in her downtown high rise. Five useful tools and an entrepreneur’s workspace. Lindsay’s workspace.

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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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www.businessweek.com

JUNE 18, 2012

Can Speech-Recognition Software Work in Mandarin? In 2009, Nuance Communications ( NUAN ) , one of the largest players in voice recognition software, licensed its technology for use in a small mobile app. A user can say a sentence in one language, and the software repeats the phrase in any one of 30 other languages. Google Plus.

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Up and Running

JUNE 3, 2011

Frank Chimero , a designer and author in Portland, Oregon, keeps a collection of articles that inspire him to make things. Kai Davis is a marketing manager for Palo Alto Software. Text Playlist. I keep what I perceive to be a more valuable, important morgue file: one made of the best writing on the web I come across. About the Author.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2019

It was in a part of Portland that was up and coming and I always loved serving small businesses. Went searching for an off-the-shelf software solution and hodge-podged a phone system together that worked with it and in 2003 launched. The software was different. It’s a little software company in New York City.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

” That’s what got me connected with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center and Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center. Jude’s Foods tool list: Accounting software is a no-brainer for small businesses; you’ve got to keep things organized.

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Up and Running

MAY 18, 2015

As I write this, I am currently sitting in my home office, overlooking my sleepy little neighborhood in Southeast Portland. I’m home at 11am on a weekday because I work remotely; I am employed by Palo Alto Software, but as they are located in Eugene, Oregon, and I am currently living in Portland, I am rarely in the office.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2011

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!’ Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2012

CS169.1x: Software as a Service. Narrative and Comms Design by Portland State University. Harvard and MIT created edX , an online learning platform with great content. edX currently offers HarvardX, MITx and BerkeleyX classes online for free. CS184.1x: Foundations of Computer Graphics. Skillshare. It’s also beautifully designed.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

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. Several smaller software groups, vfx studios and creative design labs are now benefitting from the movement south.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

John Lee Dumas: I have a couple friends in the City of Portland, Maine where I was born and raised and actually launched EOFire back in 2012 in Portland, Maine that are doing really cool regional podcast that are being listened to because people want to know what’s happening in Portland, not just in the world.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

We wondered how we could be part of that, so we wrote an amazing business plan with the help of Palo Alto Software. Some of their people came down and had lunch with us at the cart, and let us use their LivePlan software. What are your favorite or most useful gadgets, apps, software, and so on to use in your business, and why?

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

The ready availability of these consumer-grade autopilots suggests that navigation in open air by software is no more challenging (and may be less so) than navigating ground-level streets. I love the train ride between Portland and Seattle, and I’ve taken it dozens of times, including just riding up and back in a single day.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I mean, it’s not just consumer media, obviously, and it’s not just software. I came from the B2B software industry. You can subscribe to cars, right? You can subscribe to industrial chemicals, you can subscribe to your razor blades. It’s actually all around us. That’s true in the consumer. It was an email.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Cyrus Roepers, a full-time entrepreneur with a SaaS startup, used his food blog as a way to generate income for his software startup. Interestingly (and somewhat paradoxically), a food blog that started out as a passion project has actually become a source of income that helps me fund other projects and my main software startup,” he says.

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conversionxl.com

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Ashampoo Software (that’s not a typo) gets downright insulting when you sink too low below “regular price.” It opened it’s 4th restaurant of this kind in Portland, and said at the time that about 20 percent of the visitors to the cafes leave more than the suggested amount, 20 percent leave less and 60 percent pay what is suggested.

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