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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

Covering the blossoming startup industry in Portland, Oregon, and the Silicon Forest. Related posts Cloudability’s day in the sun: Portland company lands $8.7 0) Just hack it: Nike launches Nike+ Accelerator powered by TechStars in Portland. Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. Software Engineer.

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The Next Generation Of Funding For The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Another is Google Ventures, which works with portfolio companies full-time on design, recruiting, marketing, and engineering. Such programs help early-stage companies get the capital they need to fuel growth, especially when banks aren’t lending.

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Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Steve Blank

Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

behind Silicon Valley and New York), the city of flowers and sunshine boasts one of the largest concentrations of engineering graduates in the country. 1871 is home to hundreds of early stage, high growth digital startups and offers tremendous resources and programming to entrepreneurs at all stages of their startup journey.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. client / Washington, DC ($500 Referral Reward) Developer/Partner / Rocket Whale, Inc.

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California Startup Gold – bring it here to scale it

Scalable Startup

I’ve also had the good fortune to operate and sometimes live in several other fledgling tech corridors – Cambridge, NYC, Portland, Boulder, Santa Fe, Austin, Dallas, SLC, Frankfurt, Paris. Houses were cheaper, you couldn’t get good engineers, etc. Great PR and finance firms, but not many startups.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Flightwise/ MyRadar Mobile Apps

crowdSPRING Blog

Couple that with high demand for technical employees like programmers and engineers, and you’re faced with a difficult hurdle that can require some elbow grease to overcome. In the early stages, focus on just making the greatest product or service you can. How do you see your company growing in the future?