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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

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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. Ignite Portland 10 at Bagdad Theater and Pub. Beer and Blog Portland.

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Google Finally Weaving Local Strategy :: Small Business Marketing.

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Both of these moved signal a renewed focus on making both Profiles and Places pages more important in their ecosystem and perhaps ultimately in a social network of some sort.

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Where Does Foundry Group Invest?

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That generated a fun email exchange between us and prompted me to do an analysis on the locations of the direct investments that we’ve made since we started Foundry Group in 2007. We knew that some places, like NYC, Boston, and Seattle, where we already had deep networks, would be common places for us to invest.

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Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

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When we started Foundry Group in 2007, we stated that we would invest in companies throughout the United States. And, through our deep relationship with Techstars, our reach and network is even further and includes cities like Detroit, Kansas City, Austin, Chicago, San Antonio, and San Diego.

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Lighten Up Already :: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape.

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We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved ‘Bon Voyage!’ Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.