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What Oregon Entrepreneurs Can Teach All Of Us About Leadership

Terry Starbucker

Since I moved to Portland in 2010 I’ve become fascinated with a particular kind of business person – Oregon entrepreneurs. To a person, the Oregon entrepreneurs I have written about don’t have much distance separating themselves, their employees, and their customers.

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Acquiring the Entrepreneurial Skills You Need

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Derek Lidow: Entrepreneurs can come into their livelihood already possessing some vital skills, but no one shows up being the total package. But as an entrepreneur, all the needed skills like leadership, relationship building, etc., So how do we gain these much-needed skills as entrepreneurs? are all important.

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Health, Wellness, and a Giveaway to WomenonBusiness Readers

Women on Business

This online retailer offers everything from bedroom furniture, luggage, shoes and bags, home and garden accessories, and also living room and dining furniture, like this chest of drawers. Contest ends at 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time on December 17, 2010. One chance per person. Categories : Contests To learn more about Monica S.

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Katrina Markoff Named Woman of the Year by American Express and.

Women on Business

Katrina followed that initial success by branching out of her apartment and opening a retail store in Chicago just two-months after her chocolates launched in Neiman Marcus. It’s not surprising Katrina Markoff was named Woman of the Year by OPEN from American Express & Entrepreneur magazine.

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Fashion Friends Make a Fresh Start :: Women on Business

Women on Business

An answer to this was anything but obvious, and I struggled to find one shortly after my friend Katie and I were laid off from what were supposed to be dream jobs with an online shoe retailer. Related posts: Why I Chose to Become an Entrepreneur Post by Veronica Eyenga, contributing Women On Business writer People. Primary school.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? If you’re an executive or entrepreneur and you can’t put forth solid answers to the majority of the questions referenced above, then your company is likely a market lagger as opposed to a market leader.

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Brilliant Boutique: 10 Keys To Lasting Small Business Success

Terry Starbucker

It wasn’t hard to like Sarah Young as soon as we walked into her downtown store back in 2010, when we first moved to Portland. There were many nuggets of wisdom for any aspiring entrepreneur, and here they are, in Sarah’s own words: Pick the right place.