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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 1: Bend, Oregon Ecosystem and Entrepreneurs. The Oregon startup scene today looks very different from what it did 10 years ago. I visited Bend last year and caught up with his progress.

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Willamette Angel Conference Invests More than $450K

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Yesterday’s Willamette Angel Conference (WAC) 2013 event invested more than $465,000 in four Oregon startups, highlighted by more than $250,000 in Portland-based Sonivate , which has developed a fingertip-mounted ultrasound probe that enables imaging while leaving both hands free to do work with simultaneous tactile feedback. .

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#askadeveloper Your Web and Programming Questions

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Are you wondering which web hosting service to use, or which programming language you need to learn, or what’s important to look for when hiring a software or web developer? Lara Fields is the product architect at Palo Alto Software. Shad Stafford is the lead software developer at Palo Alto Software.

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Today From 9am–10am PDT: #askadeveloper Your Programming Questions

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Simply tweet @bplans using the hashtag #askadeveloper between 9 and 10 am PDT , and our team of professional software and web developers will respond in real-time. Lara Fields is the product architect at Palo Alto Software. Shad Stafford is the lead software developer at Palo Alto Software. About the developers.

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Better Than Getting Rich Quick: Startup Geoloqi Gets A Deal For The Long Haul

ReadWriteStart

that made software for telling a smartphone where in the world it is. Geoloqi’s tools help software developers integrate sensitive location features, which are hard to build from scratch. Geoloqi’s free apps show off the kinds of superpowers that can be built using its software development kit. Now they have.

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Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth Says Video Games Were What Hooked Him On Tech

Hunter Walker

But it does lead me to ask peers about how they first encountered, and committed to, software. The combo convinced me that software was for creativity and community — 100% impacted the rest of my life. My sense is that many people in our industry are fundamentally shaped by what tech meant for them as kids. Do you have any “AHA!”

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#TrackThis Episode 4: How Do You Measure Happiness?

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With us is also Sabrina Parsons, the CEO of Palo Alto Software. In Oregon, there’s an organization that actually does anonymous surveys, and then comes up with a list of the hundred best companies to work for in Oregon, which Palo Alto Software has been a part of for many years. Sabrina, take it away. Signing off.