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Contents: 5 2008
Cover Story: Octane Fitness
In 2001, Dennis Lee and Timothy Porth carefully weighed the risks of leaving the comfort of their corporate jobs to launch a startup called Octane Fitness, which would design, manufacture and market low-impact, elliptical cross-training machines.

There were obstacles, however, that they simply couldn’t have predicted, such as their engineer leaving just 60 days before they planned to start production in Taiwan. Also challenging were the critical yet complicated patent issues.

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"I am SO pumped up!" So writes Darlene Miller, CEO of Permac Industries and one of three winners of this year’s Upsize Growth Challenge. She had just finished a morning workshop with experts assembled to advise her on meeting her company’s growth goals.

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