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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

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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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

This is why, in my opinion, Portland has struggled to build bigger companies, even though there are some incredibly talented individuals there. You move to places like Portland to optimize for a certain lifestyle—and that may not include the desire to work for someone else and build something at a particular growth trajectory.

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The Next Generation Of Funding For The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Such programs help early-stage companies get the capital they need to fuel growth, especially when banks aren’t lending. Network Redux, a managed-service provider in Portland, Oregon, serves more than 1,100 clients globally, but could not secure credit after the 2008 credit crisis despite a 100 percent year-over-year growth rate.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

1871 is home to hundreds of early stage, high growth digital startups and offers tremendous resources and programming to entrepreneurs at all stages of their startup journey. Portland, OR. Chicago’s 1871, created in 2012 to support Chicago’s startup community, ranks 1st in the U.S. Sound good? We think so. San Jose, CA.

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Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Steve Blank

Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Nearby Portland Oregon (just 160 miles away) is home to over 300 startups; between the two markets, nearly 80 new startups are forming each year. This “small business” mindset is a holdover of how capital starved early stage startups are/were in Oregon.

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Our 2016 Foundry Group Fund and A Little History

Feld Thoughts

Each is roughly invested 1/3rd into companies in Colorado, 1/3rd into companies in the bay area, and 1/3rd into companies in the rest of the US (Boston, NY, Seattle, LA, Portland, Austin, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., We are early stage investors – if you’ve raised more than $3 million you are too late for us.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

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. These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. client / Washington, DC ($500 Referral Reward) Developer/Partner / Rocket Whale, Inc.