ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Finally, for those of you who need some additional infusion of courage, please study the story of Ryan Allis in North Carolina who bootstrapped his company iContact to $1 million in revenue and THEN raised venture capital to get to $40 million. Misty Denson from Portland, Oregon, presented NameYourRentNow.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

Just ask the people of Portland, Seattle, Boulder, Iowa, Princeton, Dallas or countless other cities that don’t have enough venture capital. If you don’t live in a major VC zone, I have some tips for how to make it easier to raise Venture Capital. Ask SuperCell. Or UrbanAirship.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

Before moving to Bend last year, my career took me from engineering development roles at defense contractors in the 80’s to product management and executive marketing roles in companies like Qualcomm in the 90’s, to the world of venture capital at several firms including Bay Partners, Formative Ventures and Vulcan Ventures.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 23, 2012

That's exactly the challenge posed by Geeks on a Train , a veritable Nerd Express from Portland, Ore., We imagine it will be exactly like The Hunger Games , but with more venture capital at stake. Try selling your vision with a beer in each hand, balancing in the aisle of a train barreling north at 80 mph.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 30, 2015

Yesterday we closed our fifth fund, Foundry Venture Capital 2016, L.P. In 2007 we raised our first fund – Foundry Venture Capital 2007. As with all four of our other funds, it’s a $225 million fund. We subsequently raised a $225 million fund in 2010 , another one in 2013 , and a late stage fund in 2013.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Although we started in Portland, Oregon, we now have members in every state with many meetup launches planned for 2020.We’re The mission of the MOB is to connect mothers who own businesses to resources, connections, and referrals and MOBCON did that and so much more! I’m also proud of the national growth of the MOB.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 23, 2012

That's exactly the challenge posed by Geeks on a Train , a veritable Nerd Express from Portland, Ore., We imagine it will be exactly like The Hunger Games , but with more venture capital at stake. Try selling your vision with a beer in each hand, balancing in the aisle of a train barreling north at 80 mph.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 23, 2012

That’s exactly the challenge posed by Geeks on a Train , a veritable Nerd Express from Portland, Ore., We imagine it will be exactly like The Hunger Games , but with more venture capital at stake. Try selling your vision with a beer in each hand, balancing in the aisle of a train barreling north at 80 mph.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

and Canada… with startups in the Bay area, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, Portland, Seattle, Toronto, and Vancouver. Announcing Version One’s final close In addition to wrapping up 2012, I’m happy to announce the final close of the Version One Ventures fund with $19 million in committed capital.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2011

Here is another on this growing portion of the start-up / venture investing ecosystem. One of the latest incubators to emerge is in not in any of the traditional technology hubs, but in Portland, Ore., where a longtime venture capitalist is putting the finishing touches on a $3 million city-sponsored fund.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

client / Washington, DC ($500 Referral Reward) Developer/Partner / Rocket Whale, Inc. Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT. . Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The location is remote (a 3-hour drive from Eugene and over 4 from Portland, with not much in between). The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Congratulations on the Best Venture Capital Investment. Venture News. One of the guys on the trip referred to Bandon as Man Camp. ► July. (1).

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the XOXO Festival in Portland Oregon. These notions of an independent ethos don’t map that well to what we know about venture capital, which is a very staged and formulaic way of building a company. As a venture funded startup, you’re supposed to operate a certain way.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Just like Sequoia with their franchise model, or Accel, or the other larger funs, the top-tier venture capital firms have scaled up and out to grab these opportunities. San Francisco proper was #1, and taken on the whole, the Bay Area, of course, receives more venture capital investment than anywhere else, naturally.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Narrative and Comms Design by Portland State University. A few selections: Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, and Private Equity : Similarities in compensation structure for hedge funds, venture capital firms, and private equity investors. 3D modeling, rendering and animation by Penn University. Khan Academy.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

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. Venture Capital from Northern and Southern Cal is flowing into the L.A.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

When funding a business, there are the standard options: bank loans, borrowing money from friends and family, crowdfunding, and depending on your industry, venture capital or angel investment. However, this can also be a risky, unstable endeavor, which is a potential downside to consider.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

Entrepreneurs need to understand and believe the reasons why they should want to cluster in your region given there are other alternatives (nationally Silicon Valley or New York; regionally Seattle and Bellevue, Portland and Bend). Local Early-Stage Risk Capital. Entrepreneurs are the path to job creation and growth….

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allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

According to Fenwick & West’s latest Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey , fundings in the second quarter of this year showed the highest valuation increases in more than five years. Patrick, price , Q1 , Q2 , report , round , second quarter , Series B, Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey, survey , up, valuation.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The latter is the domain of venture capital, but the former is what we need to build the foundation for Capitalism 2.0 Michael Goldman, from Portland, Maine, presented Wealth Gathering , a social gaming consumer app for managing your financial health. on a global scale. Wealth Gathering.

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