Comments on: They’re in Oregon? 17+ projects that don’t get the Silicon Forest cred they deserve

By: Dan Blaker

Dan Blaker — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:43:54 +0000

One of the guys behind SMITH magazine (best known for the insanely popular Six-Word Memoirs project--which has generated at least two real physical books) is based right here in Portland. That guy, Tim Barkow is also one of the creative forces behind Compete to Conserve and a bunch of other neat projects.

By: Ian Bell

Ian Bell — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:45:53 +0000

Thanks for the mention, what a great list of companies!

By: Justin Yuen

Justin Yuen — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:41:43 +0000

Thanks for the shout out Rick! Basecamp who?

Love the idea of having an event to celebrate startups, and empower others to get theirs going too. Count me in to help out! We could have it at http://www.leftbankproject.com – although I’m a little biased since we’re a tenant =)

By: BJ Clark

BJ Clark — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:10:04 +0000

New Relic is a big name in the rails (and soon java) industry as a purveyor of fine application performance monitoring software. Most of the big rails apps use New Relic to monitor their apps. They have an office in Portland.

The guys that make the Lighthouse (lighthouseapp.com) work for ENTP (rails consulting company) here in Portland. Lighthouse is also pretty popular in the rails world.

By: Ryan Williams

Ryan Williams — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:10:33 +0000

Another interesting connection is StackOverflow.com which has a Corvallis team member, Geoff Dalgas, and is hosted in Corvallis I believe too. One of the fastest growing sites on the web.

By: Cory Huff

Cory Huff — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:02:57 +0000

Hey Ken (and Rick, and everyone else),

I don’t know if we count as a startup anymore (in business 7 years), but Netbiz.com is in the Search Engine Marketing game with 230 employees and 4 offices, all in the Tigard/Tualatin area.

I think having a space where everyone could show off their stuff would be awesome. Combine it with an annual event and it could be very cool. Go PDX!!

By: Ken Westin

Ken Westin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:59:06 +0000

I think we need an event in Oregon like TechCrunch 50, where all of these companies can show off their stuff in meat space. Might be good to have it extend beyond Tech, there are some pretty great startups in the area. It would be neat to have some of the top startups that have product and generating revenue in Oregon all in one place to showing off their stuff.

By: RobertWagner

RobertWagner — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:48:19 +0000

It’s my own strong personal opinion that without Panic’s wonderful and extraordinarily useful software (i.e. Coda) I wouldn’t be in business today. Now if only they’d re-stock those t-shirts in their online store again so that I could resume my second job as a walking-talking billboard for their wares.

Excellent list all the way around. I read things like this and I recall exactly why I love living here.

By: jascha kaykas-wolff

jascha kaykas-wolff — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:09:13 +0000

Rick,

Thank you for being such a great advocate for our technology community. Keep it up, it is much appreciated.

- Jascha

By: Rick Turoczy

Rick Turoczy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:02:01 +0000

@Jeff Kryptiq is another good one. I missed both the -iq ones. :)

And I thought of another I left off the “Oregon presence” list: Eclipse Foundation. http://www.eclipse.org/org/foundation/contact.php