Argument for a medical multiverse : Acknowledgements

14 June 2009 Learning

Welcome back! The site has been updated. You might want to find out our new ways to keep updated or check out the community forum. We look forward to interacting with you!
When you write acknowledgements for a thesis at a small college in Portland, you can be reasonably assured [...]

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The early stages of business planning : difficulties and strategies

11 November 2008 Getting Started

Amanda and I have been working on our business plan for our center for natural medicine for a while.  We started planning long before I had any business classes in my program at NCNM.  In fact, we’ve been planning since I started school!  However, we still have a lot of work to do.  Why?
I believe [...]

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The power of networking in natural medicine

27 August 2008 Our Story

Last week I was approached by the owner of a Portland owned coffee shop with a proposal to offer massage as a benefit to her employees.  She borrowed the idea from Portland’s own Stumptown Coffee Roasters.  Stumptown offers their employees massage as one of the benefits of working for their company.  The important thing about [...]

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Natural medicine business planning : Start Early!

20 August 2008 Our Story

All of the advice I’ve ever been given about business planning boils down to one essential truth : the early bird gets the worm!  Business is as complicated as healing – when we think it will be quick, it’s slow.  When we think it’ll be slow, it speeds up!  When we think we have a [...]

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Getting started in the business of natural medicine : Our story, part 1

8 August 2008 Blogging

Thanks for hanging in there while we get content production up and running on the blog.  I wanted to start out by catching you all up to speed with how Amanda and myself got where we are today.  First, it might be nice to know where we, in fact, are today.  :)
My name is Eric [...]

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