Join Livlihood NW Business Advisor Emily Galash as she revisits your "Why."   

The Start a Business Video Series is designed to help those starting a business in Oregon understand the steps involved. It supplements the Business Xpress Startup Toolkit found at business.oregon.gov. Each step of the Toolkit has it's own corresponding video.

SBA’s Portland District Office highlights resources to help you start, grow, expand, or recover your business. Learn more about SBA’s Portland District Office: https://www.sba.gov/district/portland

Native-Led, Story Driven. This program is a unique business development course led by Native entrepreneurs working here in Oregon. Each of the eight workshops begins with their own story, and these stories drive the program. Each offers personal and professional insights into the work of launching and running a business as a Native entrepreneur.

If you are like most entrepreneurs, pricing your product or service is an agonizing experience, full of stress and doubt. Quite often, entrepreneurs will neglect to account for many of the costs involved with the production of their work, resulting in prices that prevent them from really getting ahead. In this inspirational interview with Mikailah Thompson (Nez Perce), we hear all about her journey as an artist and entrepreneur.

Often, as a small business, you don't know what you don't know.  Which is when a loan or vendor ask for your DUNS number, it may cause a bit of confusion.  Listen in to find out what the DUNS number is, how to get one, and more importantly, how to create a profile that can benefit your business transactions in the future.