YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2014

FOCUS100 is an initiative of digitalundivided , a social enterprise founded by Finney that develops programs geared toward increasing the active participation of urban communities, especially women, in the digital space. Events & Happenings conference diversity event FOCUS100 technology'

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2012

by Kevin Kaiser of Startup Biz Blog. 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. DIY Creativity.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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. For starters, you have to get inside the head of a programmer who might want to work for your startup.

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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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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In part one of this brewery startup guide, we’ll look at planning, location, equipment, and relationships. No matter its size or age, every brewery was once a startup. Dan Hughes offers this advice for fellow startup breweries: 1. See Also: Fear Doesn’t Have to Hold You Back From Networking.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2011

When you talk about vibrant West Coast startup scenes, obviously Silicon Valley dominates the conversation. And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Portland too. The Vancouver Startup Ecosystem. 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. Working with founders.

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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.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Building relationships with vendors and the local community. No matter its size or age, every brewery was once a startup. Co-founders Jamie Floyd and Nikos Ridge leased their startup system from a family running a German restaurant out of a former brewpub. Step 4: Building relationships with vendors and the local community.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Sales and marketing oriented, networking, that’s my expertise. In startup businesses, it’s hard to fill manager positions, plus minimum wage is really high for servers in this area. 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.

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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. As a venture funded startup, you’re supposed to operate a certain way. What if we gave those who didn’t fit the traditional mold to the networks we had? The Andyies asked me to talk about our Indie.vc And that’s not a joke.

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