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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Scaling for Growth – Planning, Challenges and Resources | Technology Service Event</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2015-01-28T07:30:00" datetime="2015-01-28T07:30:00">Wednesday, January 28, 2015 from 7:30</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2015-01-28T09:30:00" datetime="2015-01-28T09:30:00">9:30am</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202394571'><span class='fn org p-name'>Multnomah Athletic Club</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">1849 SW Salmon St.</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97205</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1849%20SW%20Salmon%20St.,%20Portland%20OR%2097205%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Are you ready for growth? Is your business ready for growth? How will you scale to meet or exceed your customer needs?</p> <p>Hear how other companies have planned (or not) for growth, what challenges they’ve faced, and what tools and resources they’ve used to facilitate the ups and downs of their business.</p> <p><strong>What Will You Learn?</strong></p> <ul> <li>How their company planned to facilitate growth, what was successful, and what wasn’t</li> <li>The challenges (planned/unplanned) they have faced in growing their business</li> <li>Key learnings and outcomes while scaling their growth</li> </ul> <p>Panel: <strong>Kent Lewis, Founder of Anvil Media</strong> Kent will share how Anvil Media has experienced steady growth since 2000 – what it takes, tools they used and challenges that they’ve faced</p> <p><strong>Chris Mike, VP Account Management at Chirpify</strong> Chris will share best practices in scaling a start-up including how venture capital firms are expecting their money to be spent and lessons learned along the way</p> <p><strong>Tim Tragesser, President at Polar Systems, Inc.</strong> Tim will discuss how since 1981, Polar Systems has been able to evolve through changing times and stay relevant for their customers</p> <p><strong>Michael Callier, Legal Process Strategist, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP</strong> Michael Collier specializes in organizational efficiency and will discuss items such as developing your team while balancing your immediate needs</p> <p><strong>Moderator:</strong> <strong>Nate Ankenbrandt, Sr. Analyst at Salesforce.com</strong> Nate has a broad background in service operations support team growth and development. Connecting customers dots with people and technology.</p> <p><strong>Who Should Attend?</strong> Any person who is looking to grow or is planning for growth of their business, and is looking for solutions on how to scale, leverage resources, and hear about how others have done it.</p> <p>Series Sponsors: Planar & Metal Toad</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://www.techoregon.org/event?eventid=14926136476">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>