Customer Spotlight: Migrating to New Zealand? You’ll need a business plan
J. Peter Hendrikx is a native of The Netherlands who immigrated to New Zealand seeking a more laid-back lifestyle. After years working for large, international corporations, he went to work for the Business Migration Branch of the New Zealand Immigration Service. It wasn’t long before he decided to launch his own company, combining his knowledge...
By Bplans
Oregon Business Success Stories: Video Series brought to you by the OSBDC
Another great video from our friends at the Oregon Small Business Development Center Network. Meet Ted Golden. Ted describes his successful business: servicing rooftop ventilation systems throughout the Portland Metro Area. He was assisted by the Mt. Hood Community College Small Business Development Center. Watch the video on YouTube As always, we’d like to thank...
By Bplans
Testimonial — Global MRO Products
In order to be successful in business, entrepreneurs need to be flexible. Sometimes flexibility means rethinking your ideas, other times it just means letting circumstances guide you. Todd Pearson learned this early in his path to business ownership. After 11 years at the same company, Pearson decided to open his own distribution/import company. In 2002,...
By Bplans
Starting a Home Business: an honest diary
We’re very excited to welcome Lisa Bruckner as a guest author on the Business in General Blog. As you’ll read below, Lisa is starting a new business as a consultant for the fast growing business The Trunk Club, based in Bend Oregon. We’re looking forward to hearing about Lisa’s journey as she starts and grows...
Entrepreneurs in iPhone Gold Rush
What a great story in The New York Times weekender edition. A struggling young couple, two kids; he’s a programmer worried about losing his job in recession, so he turns to iPhone programming: For six weeks, he worked “morning, noon and night”–by day at his job on the Java development team at Sun, and after...
By Tim Berry
What a Guy
It’s nice when Guy Kawasaki writes about/alludes to/makes cursory mention of the product or service into which you pour a significant portion of your waking hours. It means more than enjoying an influx of traffic to your website (a handy side-effect, no doubt). It’s also an encouraging validation that you’re taking some steps in the...
By Jason Gallic
Oregon Small Business Development Center Network – Success Stories
We are big fans of SBDC’s across the nation here at Palo Alto Software. The SBDC network is dedicated to helping small businesses and entrepreneurs around the country realize their dream of starting, owning and growing their business. Something that we’re completely committed to as well. For any entrpreneuer, the SBDC is an invaluable resource,...
By Bplans
4 Trunk Club Lessons for Entrepreneurs
(2010 update: I’ve been told very recently that Joanna Van Vleck is no longer running the Trunk Club, and that there may have been problems under the surface that I wasn’t aware of as I wrote this post. It was written in almost a year ago. Tim) This is refreshing: the Trunk Club is booming....
By Tim Berry
