Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

It’s home to a small but growing tech community that has been developing over the past decade, and that’s what piqued my interest. However, what I found in Bend was a deeply entrepreneurial community that is leaps and bounds beyond just a destination resort town. What’s Different. Silicon Valley Transplants. Entrepreneurs in Bend.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 6, 2018

We knew that some places, like NYC, Boston, and Seattle, where we already had deep networks, would be common places for us to invest. We’ve been pleasantly surprised with the expansion of our networks in other geographies, like Southern California (LA, San Diego, and Santa Barbara) and Portland.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Throughout that development process the marketing team kept pressing, leading the company to 50,000 influencers over the Summer, which made us the largest warm contact influencer network in the market. Although we started in Portland, Oregon, we now have members in every state with many meetup launches planned for 2020.We’re

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2015

How to Make Community the Secret To Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The word community has been with us for centuries. A town, a church, a school, a collection of hobbyists, have all long been identified as communities. A community, as described above, can serve a business in a number of ways.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2011

And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Portland too. Vancouver has a number of local events and programs that connect and support members of the community, including Vancouver GreenTech Exchange, Vancouver Startup Weekend, Mobile Mondays, and BCIC-New Ventures Competition. Then there's Seattle, of course.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2021

I would experience some social anxiety mixed with generally feeling overwhelmed by my own internal scorecarding and thoughts of, “Am I networking enough?” There’s just so much community and learning-by-osmosis (or serendipity) that comes from being together. In the past, these would always trip me up.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2012

In Portland, Oregon, Apple buses senior citizens from the local community center to its stores and teaches them to use a computer, some for the very first time. Häagen-Dazs wants you to sample every flavor. Which organizations are great at teaching new customers how to get the most from their products and their service?

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We’re contact@socialmatchbox.com and we will be happy to get you in touch with the right recruiter or user group to talk to for networking purposes. If you follow these steps and still can’t find what you are looking for then let us know. client / Washington, DC ($500 Referral Reward) Developer/Partner / Rocket Whale, Inc.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

” That’s what got me connected with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center and Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center. I went in with the purpose of networking and finding someone who I could rent kitchen space from in a gluten-free facility.

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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. Most people who want to build something independently make this trade-off: they give off pieces of independence to access to the capital and networks that venture capital can provide. The Andyies asked me to talk about our Indie.vc

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

See Also: Fear Doesn’t Have to Hold You Back From Networking. “You also have to have your pulse in the community and the industry to know whether or not you’re saturating certain things, or if you hear about people wanting your beer but not getting it. But it’s all about how we’re going to expand. he explains.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 9, 2019

John Jantsch: For me, I speak at an amount that people would consider as a full-time job, but I do it just as much because we sell books and we sell courses and we recruit people to our consulting network. Or I’ve run into a group recently called GigMasters, which is kind of an online tool or community that help folks get gigs.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

Companies like Chris Anderson’s 3D Robotics have built, along with the open source community, the ArduPilot, a sub-$500 autopilot for unmanned drones. I love the train ride between Portland and Seattle, and I’ve taken it dozens of times, including just riding up and back in a single day. Trains & Hyperloops.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2019

John Jantsch: So, in preparation for this, because you do the conference and have your business in the city of Portland. Portland, Maine. John Jantsch: Yeah, I was going to go there, because I did a little search, I said, “Fun facts about Portland, Maine.” It was five fun facts about Portland, Oregon.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Building relationships with vendors and the local community. Step 4: Building relationships with vendors and the local community. And all this must be tied together with ongoing communications with staff, business partners, vendors, and other key people affecting your business. Finding a brewery location. Funding a brewery.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Sales and marketing oriented, networking, that’s my expertise. We added an employee-of-the-month program, we work on providing meals and beers, and trips to Portland, but retaining people is still a tough one. We give back to the community, just like we would do with the cart too, and that giving back has also helped put us on the map.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. Past livestream attendees have reported great conversations and networking. They represent more than 10,000 people total.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

For AWS users, a network optimization tool such as Datapath.io Likewise, for non-AWS sites, Peep’s number one “low hanging fruit for improving site speed” is “start using a CDN (Content Delivery Network).” 10 Portland Brews You Should Drink Right Now: Ten Reasons The Beers In Your Fridge Right Now Just Don’t Cut It” (AskMen).

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

But today we are intentionally engineering six distinct activities to support this tech cluster: entrepreneurial density, university, transportation, capital, accelerator, and business community. This effort was over a decade in the making and something that the local community fought hard for. University. Transportation.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2012

Now that, for the most part, problems that were previously endemic to low computing power and slow network speeds have been solved, there is virtually nothing hold back new companies from fully embracing mobile data and LTE wireless networks. Imagine a new division to pretty much every single company on Earth. DIY Creativity.

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