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For This Startup, Scale Was A Matter Of Necessity

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Well, according to Cofounder and CEO Eric Breon, scaling was a matter of necessity when Vacasa first started out because rental homes were illegal in the company’s home turf of Portland, Oregon, in all but commercial areas (which greatly limited the company’s initial reach). Italy, Spain, Belize and Chile.

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Late Payments Sound Sour Notes in US

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In Oregon, and as reported by The Statesman Journal , the Willamette Country Music Festival may be cancelled in future years amid widespread late payments to that festival’s vendors. Many of those vendors have filed fraud complaints with the Oregon Department of Justice. Music and missed payments don’t mix.

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ID Experts Light Up Portland

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News out of Oregon implies significant appetite among investors for cybersecurity firms. Early in the year, the company raised $5 million from backers that included BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners and Oregon-based Rogue Venture Partners. The capital Radar raised will be spent on technology, sales and marketing.

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The top-performing community banks of 2021

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Genesee Regional Bank. We strive to bring the community bank model to mortgage banking,” says Ryan Dempster, president and CEO of the bank, which has 17 locations in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Philip Pecora, president and CEO, Genesee Regional Bank. Genesee Regional Bank. Q: Why has Genesee Regional Bank succeeded?

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Halloween 2017: Costume And eCommerce Trends

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Through a service called Frightgeist , results can be sorted by popularity and by region, so users can find out exactly how people are getting spooky from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon. The search firm is using its data to compile a sortable list of popular (and less popular) costumes across the U.S.

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A Roadie For Everyone

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The immediate priority for that funding is developing its analytics platform and increasing its market share. After a little under a year in business the app has 300K downloads and 22K drivers nationwide, even in far flung regions like Alaska and Hawaii. Then they delivered the grandmother’s stuff to her granddaughter in Oregon.

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Love: There’s An App For That

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Rural Oregon is a somewhat different story, and no matter how good a matching algorithm is, it is limited by what is available locally. While such complaints about Facebook Dating stateside have become common (due to limited choices, working far better in some regions than others), it has at least gotten off the ground in the U.S.