Comments on: Wouldn’t it be great to see a bunch of startups in the Portland Business Journal 40 under Forty?

By: Business Appraiser Directory

Business Appraiser Directory — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:26:32 +0000

I found your blog on google, keep up the good work!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:19:59 +0000

Found this post when researching the 2010 “40 under Forty” awards. Just wanted to let you know your plea to incorporate more start-up nominees is working…

Ben McKinley, my coworker and founder of Cascade Web Development, was nominated to this year’s group. We try to support the city (just launched our “Plant an Evergreen” project) and stay active in the business community so it was great to hear your opinion of what constitutes a nominee.

I just wanted to say thanks on behalf of Cascade Web Development for your efforts to push us start ups types in the limelight and share in award these celebrations.

By: RobertWagner

RobertWagner — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:43:06 +0000

If we’re nominating people under 40 and then focusing on ‘forty over forty’ (which I completely agree with) aren’t we neglecting the potential brilliance of people who are actually 40 right now?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:30:36 +0000

Yes, it would be great to see several folks nominated who’ve been able to create successful (profitability, I think ought to be a major factor in the judgement) entities in the tech-related sector.

I also think there ought to be focus on ‘forty over forty’ (or some other cute name) since I would argue that it’s equally (or more) worthy of recognition for those who accomplish big things later in one’s career, especially if a restart or retooling is part of the equation.

By: Jmartens

Jmartens — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:09:14 +0000

Maybe we should organize and focus our efforts for a greater chance of getting some SilFlo startups included? Maybe agree on 3-5 people and all submit from that list?

So: Jmartens, Rick Turoczy, and…..

;)