Palo Alto Software moved from California to Eugene, Oregon in 1992 with two employees (founder Tim Berry and his wife Vange), and has grown into a successful business employing 45 people. But unfortunately, our state has the second-highest unemployment rate in the country. In discussions about what our company could do to help the local economy, CEO Sabrina Parsons came up with the idea of creating our own stimulus package for the state. From there, the Oregon Small Business Boost took off.
Tomorrow we’ll be giving away 15,000 copies of Business Plan Pro Premier to any Oregon resident who can make it to one of 80 giveaway locations throughout the state.
We’re giving away the software to Oregonians, says Berry, “So that they can develop their business plans, and we at Palo Alto Software can contribute to the economy in Oregon, which has been great to us for 17 years now. So this is really giving back.”
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Tim,
I have a friend who is an Oregonian, but she is in Sweden as this moment. Could you reserve a copy for her for later?
I look forward to visit your place someday in the future… I will send you an email.
All the Best,
Martin Lindeskog – American in spirit.
Gothenburg, Sweden.
Hi Martin,
Sorry there was a delay in answering this.
I wish we could have… but the offer as we created it was for one day only. People needed to come into one of the locations and pick up the software in person. Now, there was a reason behind that.
We’re huge supporters of the various government and not for profit organizations that are out there to help businesses, both established and starting up. We wanted to encourage people to go into those offices and see what was offered as well as give away our software. So making it available to people outside those perimeters would have defeated that purpose.
But it was a great event. Very successful. We got to give away a lot of software.
I live in CA. and was wondering if you have the same offer for CALI people? or where I might be able to obtain info. on writing a business plan.
Thank YOU
lorrie dean
Hi Lorrie,
We don’t have any plans to do another give-away. But if we ever do think of coordinating another one, we’ll make sure to let everyone know.
You can get information on business plans right here on http://www.bplans.com
This is our free information website with lots of information on business planning. You can also get some information about our software, Business Plan Pro, from our retail site: http://www.paloalto.com
Thanks for stopping by and for commenting!