Blog posts by Rick Turoczy
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- 24 Hang out with Darya and Kevin Rose in Portland, this Saturday
- 24 Party of the decade: WordPress turns 10 and you’re invited to celebrate with them
- 23 Cover by Cover: Auctioning album cover inspired artwork to put tech in a Portland school
- 22 Want to be illustrious with Adobe Illustrator? Treehouse can help with that
- 21 Playing a different tune: Portland’s Orchestrate lands a $3 million seed round
- 17 Finding their way to Aruba: Portland startup Meridian acquired by Aruba Networks
- 17 Betting on Bitcoin: Gliph uses its anonymous transaction technology to tap into the Bitcoin market
- 16 Fly the Google skies: Urban Airship partners with Alaska Air to showcase Google Wallet API
- 15 Hello Again: Beck and Chris Milk project lands two Webbys with the help of a Portland’s 360Heros
- 13 The other side of the Google Glass: Jeff Hardison from Meridian gets interviewed by Robert Scoble
- 13 Ticket to ride: GlobeSherpa unveils TriMet mobile-phone-based ticketing system
- 13 Portland startup Lucky Sort acquired by Twitter
- 13 Fast Company selects Portland’s Michelle Rowley as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business 2013
- 10 Taking a dive: Instrument builds an awesome immersive skydiving experience for Google I/O using Google Maps API
- 10 Fear of missing your favorite show? Try tvQ for iOS devices
- 10 Even better aggregation: TigerLogic releases new version of Postano incorporating acquired Storycode technology
- 8 Looking for a little rocket fuel for your startup? Starve Ups Launch Pad could be just what you need
- 8 Tech curious? Know Your City wants to satiate that curiosity with Keep Portland Wired
- 8 Testing… testing… 1, 2, 3: AppThwack lands funding, adds iOS and Web app testing to complement Android offering
- 7 Portland just got a little WordPressier: WordPress shop 10up opens Portland office
- 7 Embrace your inner hacklete: Oregon State Startup Weekend focuses on collegiate athletes
- 6 He’s back… Well sort of: Justin Kistner joins ShopIgniter as Senior Director of Strategy
- 6 Where’s that bus or train? See each TriMet vehicle’s location in real-time
- 6 Looking for some open source awesomeness? Open Source Bridge 2013 could be exactly what you need
- 3 Taking off: Glider launches at TechCrunch Disrupt NY and announces $1 million in funding led by True Ventures
- 2 File under “Meta”: Successful Portland Kickstarter project Wide Body an accessory for a successful Kickstarter project
- 2 Oregon Technology Awards names Cloudability “Startup of the Year”
- 2 Who gets free office space as part of the Startup PDX: Challenge? You decide
- 1 Want to pitch Upstart Labs? You’ve got until May 2 to sign up for the OEN PubTalk Pitch
- 30 Put a little bit of Portland on stage in Seattle: Chirpify, Elemental, Urban Airship vie for GeekWire Awards
- 26 Portland a potential place for PivotDesk participants
- 26 REMINDER: Tonight’s Happy Hour is brought to you by TechStars Seattle
- 25 Meet the Startup: Getting the blah blah on Blab
- 23 Fo shizzle: Chirpify adds Snoop Dogg… err Lion and $2 million in Series A
- 22 The week has barely started and you’ve already got Friday happy hour plans with TechStars Seattle
- 19 REMINDER: ProductCamp Portland happens Saturday… and there are still a few spots left
- 18 Portland Seed Fund alum Brandlive walks away with the OEN Angel Oregon win
- 18 The Build is teh awesome: Instrument’s immersive and interactive documentary is something to behold
- 16 REMINDER: Signalfy launch party at Holocene, Wednesday evening *cough* open bar *cough*
- 16 REMINDER: Chirpify hosts Portland Lunch 2.0, tomorrow
- 16 Celebrating the life of Igal @igalko Koshevoy, April 21
- 9 In memoriam, Igal @igalko Koshevoy
- 9 Meet the Startup: Illuminating the Pacific Light Technologies story
- 9 You’re going to need a bigger tree: Treehouse secures $7 million in funding, led by Kaplan Ventures
- 6 Apologies and postmortem for Silicon Florist downtime this morning
- 4 Turn around, bright eyes: Businessweek notes Portland tech scene is going gangbusters
- 3 Interested in talking tech? Consider proposing a talk for Ignite TAO. But hurry, procrastinator pants.
- 3 REMINDER: Mission Demolicious is tonight, Portland
- 3 “Gamify Green for Good” with the Act-On Hackathon this weekend
- 2 Come fly with us: Urban Airship snaps up Nike veteran to head up customer success
- 29 Portland loves its WordPress. And now, WordPress loves it right back. With a Janrain partnership.
- 29 That’s the ticket: Mobile ticketing startup GlobeSherpa recognized as TiE Oregon’s 2012 success story
- 26 Free is a very good price: Startup PDX: Challenge offers free rent and more to selected startups … but you have to hurry
- 26 REMINDER: Thing Tuesday meets this evening. Because it’s Tuesday.
- 26 Meet the Startup: Getting the profile on Janrain
- 26 Being in beta is so 2012: Vizify opens platform to the public and sweetens the deal with Vizcards
- 25 REMINDER: AppThwack presents at Mobile Portland tonight
- 22 Thinking about speaking at Open Source Bridge? Quit thinking and start proposing… err think AND complete your proposal
- 21 Lights! Camera! Data! Ashland Independent Film Festival hosts hack day featuring Immigrant Nation
- 20 What do you want… a medal? Oh. Well then consider submitting your social media company or project for the SoMe Awards
- 19 Demolicious: It’s back and it promises to be better than ever
- 19 Wanting to step up your front-end game? Modern Web Dev Workshop can help
- 18 On your mark… 10 companies approach the starting line of the Nike+ Accelerator powered by TechStars
- 18 Need a cofounder? Try the CoFoundersLab Portland meetup, March 19
- 13 Have your PIE and eat it too. I mean, if we have pie at Portland Lunch 2.0.
- 11 There’s more than one way to get into TechStars: Nike+ Accelerator seeks Hackstars and Associates
- 5 Driver’s seat: Mobile ticketing startup GlobeSherpa lands $1.3 million led by Oregon Angel Fund
- 4 No longer under thumb: Selfpubd Thumb Arcade strives to make indie game developers’ products more prominent
- 4 REMINDER: The Lean Entrepreneur book tour stops by Portland, March 5
- 1 Not exactly the Portland hardware renaissance for which we were hoping
- 27 Windows seat: Urban Airship works with Microsoft to ease deployment on Windows 8 Phone using Azure
- 26 You got your in-stream purchases in my… Facebook? Chirpify strikes again
- 26 On fire: ShopIgniter has increased revenue 170% year-over-year
- 25 REMINDER: Google wants to help you improve your mobile Web experience at Mobile Portland
- 21 Wisdom isn’t always about winning: You can’t recreate the same success. But you can avoid the same mistakes.
- 20 Less is more: Parent Hacks launches Minimalist Parenting book and camp
- 19 Dialing for dollars: Celly lands $1.4 million
- 15 Have your cake: Portland video game Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake will be funded on Kickstarter
- 13 Fruits of your labor: PDC, Produce Row “Startup PDX: Challenge” will land a few lucky startups with rent free office space in Portland
- 13 Building something B2B? New startup accelerator 9Mile Labs wants to help
- 12 Benefits of loyalty: Portland’s Perka one of Fast Company’s most innovative for 2013
- 12 It’s like being able to walk into a shop in your PJs: Your BrandLive brings brick and mortar retail experiences to the Web
- 12 Picture this: Josh Friedman signs on as CEO of GigaPan Systems
- 8 Handcrafted startups: Upstart Labs captures the Portland ethos with a hands-on approach to building companies
- 7 I am the Architect: Portland World Information Architecture Day 2013, February 9
- 6 Big Urban Airship announcement gets a little love from KGW
- 6 Cozying up: Instrument and Urban Airship alum Matt King joins Cozy as they open a Portland office
- 6 How high is up? Urban Airship lands another $25 million in funding, led by August Capital
- 5 NTEN alum Holly Ross joins Drupal Association as Executive Director
- 5 Heading to SXSW? Don’t miss Urban Airship’s Mobile Saturday
- 5 New look for Portland’s Digital Trends
- 5 Something to celebrate at Portland Lunch 2.0: New Relic lands $80 million in funding
- 4 Portland’s Visere acquired by Jawbone, putting the Rose City at the center of Quantified Self hardware
- 4 Nothing 2-bit about it: Uncorked Studios adds Anne-Marie Harbour to team
- 4 Is that a FlatLight in your pocket or are you just unhappy to see me?
- 1 What makes the Portland startup scene special? Mat Ellis of Cloudability has a few ideas
- 31 Even more rock & roll: CASH Music opens hosted platform for public beta
- 31 Rock & Roll: Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards using Chirpify to sell merch
- 31 Finally! Online restaurant menus that are legible and accessible on mobile: Menuish
- 29 Tenfour: Over and out
- 29 Sixteen of the 25 Launch Stage semi-finalists at OEN Angel Oregon are tech startups
- 28 There are no words: Stan Lee, Bruce Campell, Hulk, Fonzie, and the eye maker from Blade Runner at Portland Comic Con
- 28 I’m not dead yet: Cort and Fatboy return to podcasting with That Whole Thing
- 28 Locally sourced: eROI, Urban Airship alum Dylan Boyd named Managing Director for Nike+ Accelerator, powered by TechStars
- 25 TechStars curious? Come pitch your concept to the Nike+ Accelerator and meet the Portland TechStars crew
- 25 Something new in the cards: Portland Startup Poker 2.0
- 24 The startup revolution will be televised: KATU launches Stumptown Startups to cover Portland startup scene
- 24 More Portland resources for learning to code: Portland Code School and Code Scouts
- 24 The sooner, the better: ChickTech aims to get more high school girls involved in tech
- 23 If you’re not with the things, you’re against the things: Join Thing Tuesday and work with the Internet of Things
- 23 Mozlandia: Seattle-based SEOmoz announces plans for a Portland office
- 23 Pulling the right strings: Puppet Labs lands $30 million investment from VMware
- 22 It’s like it was made for Portland: APIs & IPAs happy hour, January 24
- 18 Seattle field trip: Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure powered by TechStars
- 16 Oldie but a goodie: Playfic brings text-based adventure game development and publishing to the Web
- 14 Two of the five most well funded social software startups are Portland companies says Jeremiah Owyang
- 14 Bulking up the 800 lbs gorilla: Social login juggernaut Janrain lands $33 million to accelerate growth
- 11 That’s more like it: Portland startup scene well represented in Portland Business Journal’s Forty under 40
- 9 “Founders have a shelf life”: ShopIgniter founder Alan Wizemann steps back from day-to-day operations
- 8 It’s never too late to buy gifts: InComm acquires Portland startup Giftango
- 7 See how Portland International Airport (PDX) uses Meridian for managing internal mobile maps
- 7 Air Login: Avatron makes your iOS device a portal to your laptop or desktop
- 4 Get an iPhone or iPod Touch for the holidays? Make your gaming experience that much better with WynCASE
- 4 Apply yourself: Pending deadlines for Portland Seed Fund, OEN Angel Oregon, Nike+ Accelerator, Upstart Labs
- 3 Looking back: Visualizing Silicon Florist headlines from 2012
- 3 Fail blogging: 27 Portland startup topics I should have covered in 2012
- 24 Tracking that jolly old elf: Use technology to keep an eye on Santa Claus as he makes his rounds
- 19 Slumbering giant: Janrain is quietly becoming the dominant force in registration management
- 19 Enterprise product development is broken. Portland’s Jama Software is working to fix it.
- 19 Brilliant! Urban Airship floats over the pond to open London office
- 18 Visualizing Vizify: “Your Year on Twitter” lands Portland startup on TV with Steph Stricklen and KGW Live at 7
- 18 Making it a happier holiday season for makers: Chirpify powers transaction-fee-free Etsy sales via Instagram and Twitter
- 18 Portland gets even more Drupal-icious: Acquia expands Portland presence
- 18 [Insert overplayed "gift" analogy here]: Upstart Labs opens startup applications via AngelList
- 17 Making stuff for the makers: Funded Portland startup Tindie aims to be the Etsy for hardware hackers
- 12 Webtrends Streams: Old analytics dog comes forth with some interesting new tricks
- 11 You got your Vizify in my Twitter. You got Your Year on Twitter in my Vizify.
- 10 Just hack it: Nike launches Nike+ Accelerator powered by TechStars in Portland. And 7 reasons that’s awesome.
- 5 Unwrapping the presents early: Portland Seed Fund launches six new startups, Winter 2012
- 5 Video encoding just got a heck of a lot easier thanks to CPUsage and GridVid.Me
- 5 Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome)
- 4 ‘Tis the season: Celebrate Portland Seed Fund Demo Day whether you attended Demo Day or not
- 4 Portland-based GetListed gets acquired by Seattle-based SEOmoz
- 4 Portland’s Urban Airship picks up another company, Tello, and adds Palo Alto to their list of offices
- 29 Portland Lunch 2.0: Let CrowdCompass help you find a free lunch
- 27 Hacking discoverability: Selfpubd inks deal with Taptica to promote indie mobile apps
- 16 Meet the Startup: Getting on board with GlobeSherpa
- 13 I am Oregon: Meyer Memorial Trust encourages you to nominate inspiring Oregonians
- 13 Your vote could help CPUsage win $100,000 worth of agency services
- 13 Better than the back of a napkin: Site 9 lands half-a-million dollars to accelerate ProtoShare
- 13 Thinking about lunch? Don’t forget Jama Software is buying on Wednesday as Portland Lunch 2.0 returns
- 12 REMINDER: Mobile Portland heads to Ziba for a chat with Amazon about the Appstore
- 8 Finding that perfect holiday gift just got easier, thanks to Macy’s and the new Meridian SDKs
- 8 OpenHack: Actually surprised I’m getting to introduce this to Portland hackers
- 7 Carefully courting a startup cofounder? Cofounder curious? CoFoundersLab may be just what you need
- 7 Meet the Startup: Getting the full picture on Favery
- 7 Newly elected Portland mayor Charlie Hales on the Portland startup scene
- 6 Favery makes pinning more productive
- 6 Are you going to go Tiny or go Riot? The future of your Portland startup awaits, this weekend
- 5 Your startup is looking a bit slow there, tiger. Why not try a little SXSW Accelerator?
- 5 Typical hackathons a little too social for your blood? Embrace being an introvert and Hackalone
- 2 10+ Portland startups you should be following on Github [Updated]
- 1 Field trip: Portland’s Glider (formerly Superbly) and the rest of TechStars Seattle Demo Day 2012
- 1 Get your geek on this weekend: CyborgCamp Portland and CodeDay Portland
- 1 Mistakes were made: Tiny Startup Camp now makes a tinier dent in your wallet
- 31 It’s Halloween. What better day to bring Portland Lunch 2.0 and Portland on Fire back from the dead?
- 30 Have your cake and eat it too: 20% of Wired’s “San Francisco tech companies you wished you worked for” have Portland offices
- 30 Rabble rousing: Cubox acquired by New Context lean software consultancy
- 30 You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than YouTube comments. But Comment Haiku changes that.
- 30 Take your Halloween costume and iPhone for a spin. And win.
- 30 Meet the Startup: Getting up to speed with PivotPlanet
- 29 How is Portland poised to lead design-driven startups?
- 26 Going out to eat this weekend? Save yourself the runaround with TablesUp
- 24 From “looking good” to “looking even better”: Vizify pretties up your online profile even more
- 24 How to build a startup community: Brad Feld on the “Boulder Thesis”
- 23 Portland’s slice of Global Entrepreneurship Week is stacking up to be amazing
- 23 Meet the Startup: Dialing up Celly
- 23 A picture is worth a thousand words, but an Instagram photo is worth a thousand bucks
- 22 REMINDER: Windows curious? Get the lowdown on Windows 8 at Mobile Portland
- 18 Insightful comments on federal entrepreneurial policy from Jon Stewart on the Daily Show
- 17 What, exactly, is an entrepreneur? Well, it takes one to know one
- 16 Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day with Geoloqi’s views on the Portland startup scene
- 16 Bigger isn’t always better: Tiny Startup Camp, November 10-11
- 16 In Portland? CTO? Meet your peers for beers. Or another beverage of your choice.
- 15 Geoloqi acquired by Esri
- 11 Urban Airship and Cloudability investor Brad Feld talks startups communities, entrepreneurs, and Portland
- 10 Mobile app development in Oregon accounts for half a billion dollars in economic impact
- 10 It’s like an olive branch of awesomeness: Startup Weekend Eugene offers Portlanders a steep discount
- 10 Meet the Startup: Bellying up to Taplister
- 8 So that happened: Six new startups debut at PIE Demo Day Fall 2012
- 4 REMINDER: PIE Demo Day is Friday — and, yes, it will be livestreamed
- 3 If you love Elemental Technologies, lend your vote to the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice awards
- 2 Thinking about grabbing a cold one? New and improved Taplister can help
- 2 That’s the ticket: GlobeSherpa lands TriMet mobile ticketing business
- 2 Where are they now? Urban Airship unveils location aware push notifications
- 28 I’d buy that for a dollar: VendScreen launches flagship product, a wireless Android device for vending machines
- 26 Taking Portland pitching to the next level: House of Genius
- 26 Talking Girl Talk: Andy Baio and Gregg Gillis continue their conversation on the future of music (Part 2)
- 25 Startup Weekend trifecta: Portland Startup Weekend expands to host PSU and Eugene events
- 25 PIE Demo Day: Grab a seat and get ready for another slice of PIE, October 5
- 24 REMINDER: Mobile Portland shares lessons learned from a re-startup mobile company, tonight
- 21 One more thing, PDXconf… well two actually: Andy Baio chats with Girl Talk (Part 1)
- 21 Startup Communities makes another Boulder-Portland connection
- 20 Portland tech startups receive recognition at OEN Tom Holce Entrepreneurship Awards
- 19 Everything old is new again: Next generation of Portland coworking spaces begins to take shape
- 19 Another Upstart: Celly expands beyond Occupy Movement to improve student-teacher communication
- 16 There was a lot of love in the room: XOXO embraces maker culture as attendees embrace XOXO
- 16 Sequoia Capital: Apple, Oracle, Cisco… and Jive Software
- 16 It goes to eleven: The eleventeenth Ignite Portland takes place, this week
- 14 Game on! Jane McGonigal swings by Portland to talk about gaming and education
- 11 Portland Seed Fund III: This time, it’s digital
- 8 Portland’s creative communities: Digital, tech, startup, and music in 20 seconds or less
- 5 Get in on the fun of the Portland Digital eXperience… for free
- 31 Just what the doctor ordered: Electronic healthcare startup Kryptiq gets snapped up by Surescripts
- 29 Portland mobile developers: The Square is looking for a few good apps
- 29 Get in on these mix and match magical electronic musical instruments
- 28 Nodester enshrouded in Fog: Portland’s AppFog acquires open source Node.js platform
- 28 It’s called a community for a reason
- 26 Keeping It Realtime Conference is keeping it in Portland, October 23-24
- 25 Put your Portland startup on the map: Sign up to be part of the PDX Startup Crawl, September 6
- 25 Running with responsive Web design: Athletepath at Mobile Portland, this Monday
- 25 Like music and tech? Well for that, you’ll need Bandwidth
- 23 September just got even more awesome: Spotify, MapQuest, and Twilio sponsoring MFNW+PDX Music Hack Day
- 21 Startup Curious? Join our friends at GeekWire for Seattle 2.0 Startup Day, September 22
- 19 REMINDER: Dave McClure says shit… well, every day. But on Monday he’ll be saying it in Portland
- 16 Considering WordCamp Portland? Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, would love to see you there
- 15 Portland mayoral candidates debate the Portland startup scene. Sort of.
- 14 Meet the Startup: Vizify shares their vision
- 14 REMINDER: Portland Quantified Self show and tell features Vizify and Geoloqi
- 14 Experience Portland: Some of the thinking behind MusicFestNW’s new tech conference, PDX
- 12 Another day, another awesome Portland Kickstarter project funded: GameDock for iOS devices
- 12 Livestream: Potential Portland mayors chat about the technology and startup scene, Monday morning
- 9 Running the Hood to Coast Relay? Athletepath will be running alongside you and your team
- 9 Deperately seeking cofounder or desperately looking for an excuse to move to Portland? FounderDating can help… if you hurry
- 7 Half a decade later: Thank you for putting up with bad grammar, ridiculously long headlines, haphazard posting schedules, and an all too rosey view of the Portland startup scene
- 6 Make cool stuff? Show it off at Portland Mini Maker Faire
- 6 Portland’s inventory: Inventors of digital image processing, the wiki, and Linux all call the Rose City home
- 5 You, only better looking: Vizify and Path.to chat about reinventing your job search
- 2 From the mouths of startup founders: Geoff Lewis of Founders Fund and Scott Kveton of Urban Airship share their knowledge
- 31 Up in the air: Clent Richardson named to FlightStats board
- 30 The Portland Sessions: Capturing amazing musicians playing sets in Portland
- 27 Lookin’ good: Vizify reinvents the way you see yourself on the Web
- 24 How do you wow your customers? Learn from some of the best
- 24 Everything old is new again: Shwood shoots latest promo using stereoscopy
- 22 REMINDER: Mobile Portland focuses on building mobile apps for emerging technology regions, Monday night
- 19 What does the Eugene startup scene look like? Silicon Shire shows you
- 17 Our first sequel: Meet the Startup chats with Chirpify
- 17 Up on the roof and up in the Clouds: Cloudability hosts talk on the future of the Cloud
- 16 REMINDER: API Hackday PDX 2, this Tuesday at Urban Airship
- 13 Cloudability’s day in the sun: Portland company lands $8.7 million in funding
- 11 The Force is strong with this one: Portland’s Sprintly lands a who’s who Jedi Council of investors and advisors
- 11 Meta overload: Fred Armisen of Portlandia talks Portland with David Letterman
- 10 Mapping a better future: Ecotrust opens Madrona decision tool to the public
- 10 New partnerships have Urban Airship getting even more gamey
- 9 What’s the big idea? IdeaMensch swings by Portland as part of nationwide summer road trip
- 6 What are you doing this weekend? That’s right. Completing your Portland Seed Fund application.
- 5 Some folks set off fireworks on July 4th. Apple releases a bunch of exploding iPhone apps, instead. Including PDX Bus.
- 3 Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors
- 3 Pitching over pitchers: Portland Seed Fund Pitch Happy Hour, July 5
- 3 Meet the Startup: In the hot seat with Kelly’s Jelly
- 2 Find a corsage and a breath mint: Portland FounderDating applications due August 9
- 29 Seattle field trip: Microsoft Accelerator for Kinect Demo Day powered by TechStars
- 27 We’ve all heard about Portland’s amazing restaurants, but what’s the best thing on the menu? Menupolitan knows
- 25 Tonight: Get up and practice pitching your concept or sit back and learn how to pitch your app
- 25 Open Source Bridge 2012 opens Tuesday
- 21 Geeks on a Train: Join Dave McClure and your peers from Portland and Seattle for a trip to Vancouver (No, the other one)
- 20 Code monkeys rejoice: Geek music icon Jonathan Coulton swings by Portland
- 19 What’s it like to go through a Startup Weekend? Meet the Startup documents Portland Startup Weekend
- 19 Charting a new direction: CrowdCompass acquired for $10 million
- 18 I have no words, but you might. Submit your talk for WordCamp Portland
- 15 Portland’s Armchair Mayor: Scraping the bottom of the barrel at Neighborhood Notes
- 14 What are you doing for lunch tomorrow? Want to hang out with me and Skip Newberry? I’ll buy.
- 13 Time for startups to TiE one on: TiE Oregon PitchFest, this Thursday, June 14
- 12 Meet the Startup: Portland Seed Fund Demo Day, Spring 2012
- 12 Need help filtering Spotify music? Try the Intel Sifter to get a little help from your friends
- 8 Accelerator application trifecta: TechStars Seattle, Portland Seed Fund, and PIE currently accepting submissions
- 7 Tweaking the recipe: Top 3 most exciting changes for the next class of PIE
- 5 Catch the Portland Seed Fund companies before they sprout at the demo day after party
- 5 Feel like investors are speaking a foreign language? Nitin Khanna helps translate it into English, baby!
- 5 What to wear: Three Portland startups that are rethinking which clothes we buy online
- 5 SkateBack: MapleXO + Grove are back … or maybe more appropriately, are backING your iPhone
- 1 June 2 is crazy. Crazy awesome that is: Hack for Portland Schools, Portland Code Camp, and VibrantData PDX Hackathon
- 31 I like turtles: Portland’s quintessential contribution to the world of memes turns five
- 31 Can you quantify that for me? How about with me? Join the Vibrant Data Hack, this weekend
- 31 Going camping this weekend? Code Camp gathers folks across languages, databases, and frameworks
- 30 Good code can make everything better: Hack for Portland Schools
- 29 Last call: Beer and Blog Portland quaffs its last pint
- 25 Like to code? Like to talk about code? Submit a proposal to speak at Portland Code Camp 2012
- 24 Hugs and kisses and lots of love: XOXO festival sells out pretty much immediately
- 23 Portland’s XOXO festival hopes to feel the Kickstarter love
- 23 Digging into diversity: Willamette Week takes a look at the number of women in the tech startup scene
- 22 Make mine Titanium: Geoloqi powers battery efficient geolocation for Appcelerator Titanium
- 21 REMINDER: Mobile Portland discusses what happens when the robots win
- 17 Bend startup accelerator VentureBox graduates first class
- 17 Send me an Angel: Oregon Angel Fund applications close May 22
- 15 Meet the Startup: Portland’s next mayor
- 14 REMINDER: Join the WebVisions crew for the Hackathon for Social Good, Tuesday
- 11 Portland startups gain international acclaim: Urban Airship wins big at CTIA
- 11 This is not the page you’re looking for: Talking 404 errors at TED
- 11 It ain’t easy being green: Hacking on Nike open data to make sustainability easier for designers
- 9 What if banking were more Simple?
- 8 Broadway bound: Elemental Technologies adds another $13 million in funding
- 7 Portland 100: Nitin Khanna introduces the team taking Portland startups to the next level
- 2 Jive gets Cloudy. Or the Cloud gets Jivey. Either way, Jive is now available as Software as a Service (SaaS)
- 1 VendScreen and Goodie Monster: Could Portland be the epicenter of vending machine innovation?
- 1 A chunk of the BioShock team regroups in Portland as The Fullbright Company
- 1 Meet the Startup: OEN Angel Oregon 2012 recap
- 1 Emoome: Are you trying to get all emotional on me?
- 30 Portland to Seattle with wifi, power outlets, and legroom? I’d buy that for a dollar
- 30 Well done: ShopIgniter lands Omaha Steaks
- 29 Portland Startup Weekend: Bigger, better, and more diverse
- 27 Which Oregon colleges are churning out startup founders? AngelList knows
- 27 File under irony: Portland startups Cloudability and AppFog get noticed at Under the Radar
- 26 Beer and tech startups go together like… well beer and tech startups
- 26 What does Puppet Labs do? An explanation from cofounder Teyo Tyree
- 26 Urban Airship Newsstand Publisher: It’s like the publications almost sell themselves
- 26 Puppet Labs promotes Nigel Kersten to CTO
- 25 Starve Ups Launch Pad: Connecting entrepreneurs with the resources they need
- 25 Who has social media chops? Find out at the SoMe Awards
- 25 Pitch Club: I am Jack’s complete lack of practice
- 25 All your Sybase are belong to us: Urban Airship takes on push notifications for Sybase 365
- 25 Finding Portland. And finding it beautiful and awesome.
- 25 Obscene and enthusiastic things people have said about Marshall Kirkpatrick’s startup
- 25 Columbia Sportswear app: It’s like Path for offroad journeys
- 24 This is Oregon. And don’t you forget it.
- 24 With your help, the hottest startup at Under the Radar could be a Portland company
- 24 TechCrunch has a Portland outpost
- 24 Four day work week? Something tells me Treehouse is going to fit right in
- 24 The best gets even better… or Best-er or whatever: MetaFilter launches “Best of MetaFilter”
- 24 Sold: RealLead acquired by IDX
- 24 Cohdoo’s Highlight recognized for best application user interface design by Nielsen Norman Group
- 24 Chirpify lands $1.3 million in funding … and that’s not even the most interesting part of the story
- 24 Learning to Drive: Portland startup Revisu among the first products to incorporate Google Drive features
- 24 Meet the Startup: Getting the story on EarthTechling
- 23 Want to found a company? Time to find your cofounder with FounderDating
- 23 What the heck is going on with wireless? Find out at Mobile Portland, Monday night
- 23 If a Twitter user could tweet a beer, how many beers would a Twitter user tweet?
- 20 Angela Jackson of Portland Seed Fund addresses the US House of Representatives
- 20 TEDxPortland: Discover uncharted territory, all from the comfort of your Web browser
- 20 From Wikipedian to Wiki curious: Attend Portland Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
- 18 Tech takes second at OEN’s Angel Oregon: Tellagence garners $94k
- 18 Like: ShopIgniter, Crowd Factory, Webtrends, and Woobox are now Facebook Preferred Marketing Developers
- 18 Joe Stump and Sprint.ly move to Portland
- 18 Treehouse is moving to Portland with $4.75 million in their pockets… um branches
- 18 100+ Portland startups to follow on Twitter
- 18 One’s a crowd: Portland’s Crowd Factory acquired by Marketo
- 18 When you code, Portland, Code for America and Reboot Democracy
- 17 Waxy.org hasn’t just influenced the Internet, it’s put a dent in it. Thanks, Andy Baio.
- 17 We could use another tech event in Portland, right?
- 17 Meet the Startup: Getting in good with Good Works Now
- 16 I’m always a sucker for a Portland time-lapse
- 12 Interested in Agile? Don’t miss AgilePalooza Portland
- 12 Scoble sits down with Cloudability at TechStars Cloud
- 11 Stuff just started getting real… estate: 1000watt launches Nudge
- 10 Meet the Startup: Talking shop with Return Guru
- 9 Former Huffington Post CTO Paul Berry to keynote Willamette Angel Conference
- 9 Can you quantify that? Then maybe you should attend the Quantified Self Show & Tell
- 6 Catching up with a smattering of awesome Portland startups
- 5 Startup innovation: Get your Saturday Night Fever on… on a Friday
- 4 That’s the ticket: TIXIE closes Series A
- 3 Urban Airship moves closer to the Holy Grail of targeted push messages with Segments, Meridian partnership
- 3 Meet the Startup: Getting started with Portland Startup Weekend
- 2 Oh look! It’s the Easter… Ostrich? Find Zappos eggs filled with happiness in Portland, this week
- 29 Boombox + recycled vintage luggage = Case of Bass, pure Portland awesomeness
- 29 Looking for users? How about the City of Portland?
- 29 Bar none: Portland’s original unconference, BarCamp Portland, takes place this weekend
- 28 Girl? Geeky? Have we got an event for you
- 28 Is it getting gamey in here? Jive partners with Bunchball to launch Jive Gamification
- 27 Shut up. Put your head down. Work.
- 27 Meet the Startup: Delivering the story with brandlive
- 26 REMINDER: Mobile Portland Demolicious, tonight
- 23 Why you might want to fly solo: “Lifestyle Business” is not a dirty word (well, two)
- 22 Portland is Virgin America’s next stop
- 22 Lessons from a 40 year old (and the founder of MetaFilter)
- 21 Please enjoy: Spend some time with Facebook Creative Director Ji Lee
- 21 Pitch Club: I want you to pitch me as hard as you can
- 21 When he’s not busy running for mayor, Kveton is among the top names disrupting mobile
- 20 I’m confused, scared, and more than a little ashamed
- 20 Meet the Startup: Keeping up with Fit2B Studio
- 19 Scott Kveton, CEO of Urban Airship, is in the running to be mayor of Portland
- 16 Of course, Bridgetown would attract trolls: Portland TriMet TransitTracker under patent troll attack
- 16 REMINDER: Open Source Bridge accepting talk proposals until midnight, procrastinator pants
- 16 Portland’s Nitin Khanna named TiE Angel of the Year 2011
- 15 Zooka and HuMn Wallet: Already funded Portland Kickstarter projects… but you’re going to want to grab them
- 13 Upcoming and downfalling: Portland’s Andy Baio on the Yahoo! Facebook patent suit
- 13 Look into the “Future of Work” with Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life and cofounder of Coffee & Power
- 13 On the couch? Couchbase types gather for CouchConf Portland
- 13 Meet the Startup: Serial entrepreneur Pete Grillo discusses the Portland startup scene
- 12 Have you joined Startup America, yet?
- 7 SXSW hack: Be the most popular geek in Austin by using Chirpify to “Tweet a Beer”
- 6 Free Friday: Fostering creativity at Urban Airship
- 6 Meet the Startup: “This is your captain speaking…” about Urban Airship
- 2 Portland Seed Fund continues to grow: Eight startups join PSF second class
- 1 What a difference a year makes: Gramfeed goes from two hour project to 2 million visitors
- 29 Soon, they may call Portland “the big Apple”: New Apple store plans make PDX home to the largest retail space
- 29 Coder Society: Getting developers together to build something
- 28 Meet the Startup: Picking one of the brains behind Branium Studios
- 27 Are you going to SXSW, this year?
- 26 Legislating Oregon’s entrepreneurial future: Oregon Investment Act, House Bill 4040
- 24 Cultivating corporate culture: A key ingredient to building a killer startup
- 23 Portland’s SweetSpot Diabetes acquired for $8.5 million [Updated]
- 22 Looking for all of the hot spots? Well, spotsi’s launch party is the spot to be
- 21 “Siri, install Air Dictate 2.” “I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
- 21 Meet the Startup: Getting a grasp on Original Baby
- 20 Paul deGrandis: 5 tips for navigating startup life
- 20 PDX PHP: CASH Music discusses their to-be-funded, open-source Kickstarter project
- 20 Add another successful Reed entrepreneur to the list: Lucky Sort lands $500,000 in funding
- 17 Data, Culture, Networks, People: Learnings from Etsy, Code for America, and Y Combinator
- 15 Entrepreneurs need two things: coffee and power. And now, Portland is getting more of both… with Coffee & Power
- 14 Meet the Startup: Chatting with Portland mayoral candidate Charlie Hales
- 13 Beaverton, Oregon, might be the least romantic city in the United States
- 13 State of Entrepreneurship: States need to help startups succeed
- 11 Aptly named: Elevation iPhone dock takes Kickstarter to $1 million heights
- 10 Catching air: Avatron Air Display jumps to Android tablets
- 9 Someone in Portland finally got their shit together: Sh*t Portlanders Say
- 9 Ignite Portland 10: How to win at Ignite or Tips and tricks for getting the most out of your Ignite experience
- 8 Shit that Silicon Forest startups almost said
- 8 Eee-aye, eee-aye, oh, i-o: AppFog adds Blitz.io and Iron.io support
- 7 Meet the Startup: Starting the conversation with Upstart Labs
- 7 Which school has the most Portland startup cred?
- 7 Reed College Start Up Lab launches seven new startups
- 3 Have you seen all the Oscar nominated films? Did you torrent them?
- 1 Staying up working on your side project? Why not apply to PIE so you can… um stay up working on your startup?
- 1 Keiretsu Forum highlights investment in 4-tell and CrowdCompass
- 31 Meet the Startup: Piecing together the first PIE Demo Day
- 27 Bend launches VentureBox with a different take on the accelerator model. Startups pay to play.
- 26 Interested in tracking AngelList activity for early stage Portland startups?
- 25 Portland side projects Gramfeed and Vizify Tweetsheet get a little love from CNN
- 24 Startups come into Pitch Club a wad of cookie dough. They leave carved out of wood.
- 24 Meet the Startup: Chatting with Portland mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith
- 23 Talk fast… err think about talking fast: SAO TechIgnite proposals are open
- 23 Open Source Bridge opens call for talk proposals
- 23 Political party: Mayoral candidate Eileen Brady celebrates the Portland startup scene
- 19 Meet the Startup: Sitting down with Stayhound
- 18 VendScreen reinvents the vending machine using Android — and lands $12 million in funding
- 17 PIE Demo Day livestream, Tuesday at 2:30 PM PT: Meet Athletepath, Cloudability, DailyPath, MoPix, Revisu, spotsi, Stayhound, and VendScreen
- 13 When one door closes… Geoloqi offers a new tool to help SimpleGeo customers transition
- 13 Want to see what’s been cooking at PIE? Come to PIE Demo Day, January 17
- 11 Think Senator Ron Wyden is the only one who thinks SOPA sucks? Think again
- 11 Could have foretold this one: Portland Seed Fund alum 4-Tell snags $1 million round
- 11 PDC allocates more funding for the Portland Seed Fund
- 11 GadgetTrak CameraTrace: From side project to new product
- 11 Send me an Angel: Interested in investing? OEN Angel Oregon would love to chat with you
- 10 ClearEdge Power signs $500 million deal
- 10 Robert Wagner: “I was a Silicon Lumberjack.” The WordPress one. Not the Tumblr one.
- 10 America’s Funniest Home videos + LOL cats = BlooperBox
- 10 Mutual admiration society: Portland is the featured city on the Instagram blog
- 10 4 out of 5 dentists agree: Creating new login credentials sucks
- 10 Meet the Startup: Getting the balance on Silicon Valley Bank
- 10 Ignite Portland 10: And the presenters are…
- 10 Forrester pushes push notifications as Urban Airship pushes their 10 billionth notification
- 9 REMINDER: Your Portland Seed Fund application is due. Like right now, procrastinator pants.
- 9 Working to dispel the “You can’t get funded in Portland” myth
- 9 Portland Business Journal “Forty under 40″ recognizes tech types
- 9 Creative Market: Finally, an app store for creative assets beyond stock photography and illustration
- 6 In Portland? Female? Like to hack? Women Who Hack was made for you
- 6 Oregon-Israel Business Alliance and the Software Association of Oregon want you to meet Jonathan Medved
- 6 Urban Airship snags former Skype exec as Chief Revenue Officer
- 5 Instagram filters not cutting it anymore? Maybe it’s time to bring the bling with PhotoBlast
- 5 REMINDER: You have a week to complete your OSCON 2012 proposal
- 4 $500,000+ on Kickstarter and counting: Elevation iPhone dock by Portland’s Casey Hopkins
- 4 REMINDER: Last chance to pitch the Portland Seed Fund tonight
- 4 Quintessential Portland iOS shop Small Society acquired by Walmart Labs
- 4 Get a new iPhone over the holidays? Make sure it’s not toast. Or it is TOAST. Or whatever.
- 3 Portland Seed Fund and TechStars Seattle alum Vizify lands $1.2 million
- 3 Meet the Startup: Finding the story on spotsi
- 2 Dive Head First into Mobile Web with some of Portland’s most respected mobile types
- 2 I’ve been letting you down, Portland
- 30 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for 2011
- 29 What does Silicon Florist 2011 look like?
- 20 Upstart Labs may be just the thing your startup needs
- 20 Meet the Startup: Cloudability makes all of your Cloud spending clear
- 19 Brad Feld wants your take on how to create a great entrepreneurial ecosystem
- 15 Urban Airship snags Second Porch cofounder to captain marketing
- 14 This was three years ago, Portland
- 14 Getting political: Meet the Portland entrepreneurs who endorse Eileen Brady for mayor
- 13 Teacher says every time a company IPOs an angel gets its wings. But sometimes it takes six months.
- 13 TiE Tuesday: Thinking about the Portland Seed Fund? Pitch your idea tonight at the TiE Oregon Incubator
- 13 Meet the Startup: Portland mayoral candidate Eileen Brady
- 12 CONFIRMED: Jive Software IPO at $12 per share, slated for Tuesday, December 13
- 9 What are you doing this weekend? You’re working on your Portland Seed Fund application, right?
- 8 Finding their way to funding: CrowdCompass lands $1.3 million — with Oregon Angel Fund contributing nearly half
- 7 Could QR Codes be the code to crack model and actor head shots?
- 7 Meet the Startup (Lean Edition): Eric Ries talks Lean Startups
- 6 CD Baby and Rumblefish: Two great Portland companies that taste… err sound great together
- 6 Are bloggers members of the media? US District judge in Portland says no… but may have missed something
- 6 Made in Portland: Your one stop resource for PDX built beer, bikes, coffee, and Web startups
- 6 Kansas City is America’s most entrepreneurial city
- 1 MergerTech stands up MergerTech Capital, a $50 million fund for healthcare IT startups
- 1 Finding Oregon … in a time-lapse-y sort of way
- 29 FDA approval sweetens the future for SweetSpot Diabetes
- 29 Puppet Labs just landed $8.5 million in funding from Google, Cisco, and VMWare — and a Portland investor
- 29 Meet the Startup: Discussing the Portland startup space with Jones Lang LaSalle
- 23 Turkey Tracker 2011: It will happen… if you just believe
- 22 Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon continues his stand against Internet censorship. And you can join him.
- 22 Meet the Startup: Finding our way with CrowdCompass
- 22 See MyReplayLive live with replays: Beta launch tonight at SoccerPlex
- 21 Get your math on: Inaugural meeting of the Portland Mathematics User Group tonight
- 18 Feel like hacking some Portland municipal data, this weekend? Well boy howdy are you in luck
- 18 Big reveal: See the Alpha release from Startup Weekend Portland alum Tell It In 10 tonight (and grab a free beer or two)
- 18 Procrastinators rejoice! SXSW Accelerator just gave your startup the weekend to finish your application
- 17 How you too can be a media whore: GadgetTrak’s Ken Westin shares his secrets for hacking the press
- 17 Bet they have a sweet CRM for lead management now too: AppFog hires former Salesforce.com exec to head biz dev
- 16 Guess what you haven’t done yet, procrastinator? That’s right. Applied to the SXSW Accelerator for startups
- 16 Portland’s next mayor: A tale of the social network tape
- 16 Oh Portland. You so pretty.
- 16 What startup has 20 people in Portland and $15 million in funding? New Relic. And they’re hiring.
- 16 Mike is your friend: University of Oregon alum and former MySpace CEO starts startup incubator
- 16 Want to move your app to the Cloud? Got five minutes?
- 15 What’s happening at Portland State Business Accelerator? Join them for an open house on Wednesday to find out
- 15 Meet the Startup: Comparing notes with Revisu
- 14 If you’re looking for a new gig, it’s Elemental, dear Watson: 10 open jobs at Portland startup Elemental Technologies
- 14 Build locally, help nationally: SweetSpot helps Veterans Affairs track blood glucose readings remotely
- 14 Oregon Angel Fund invests in local mobile: Meridian lands $1 million in seed funding
- 12 Poo-tee-weet! Portland podcasting purveyor publicizes purchase of prized podcasting platform, Cascadia.fm
- 11 And for our next trick… Urban Airship secures $15.1 million, led by Salesforce and Verizon
- 11 It goes to Eleven: 11/11/11 is Eleven Wireless’ eleventh birthday party—and you’re invited
- 11 Marshall Kirkpatrick isn’t just writing about startups anymore, he’s building one
- 10 Think your YouTube video rivals Mad Men or 30 Rock? Well, your soundtrack can, at least. Thanks to Rumblefish.
- 9 TiE Oregon and Melvin Mark start up a startup incubator in Hillsboro
- 9 Portland startups Urban Airship, ShopIgniter, and AppFog are hiring marketing talent—and that’s a good sign
- 8 Meet the Startup: Meet a whole bunch of Portland Seed Fund startups
- 8 Make your Cloud spending less hazy: Portland’s Cloudability opens public beta
- 8 First, they simplified their office structure. Now, they’ve simplified their name. BankSimple is now Simple.
- 7 Voting by mail? That’s so last century. Oregon upgrades to voting by iPad.
- 2 Portland Seed Fund stages inaugural Demo Day and… [insert horticultural pun here]
- 2 Twitter Stories starts in Portland
- 1 Meet the Startup: Getting the history of Paleo Plan
- 1 REMINDER: Join Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson tonight and you’re guaranteed to be smarter than your lawyer and venture capitalist*
- 31 Urban Airship acquires SimpleGeo combining push notifications and geolocation on a nonstop flight
- 31 That’s a complete crock of… well tasty awesomeness: brandlive to power Crock Pot® Live
- 28 Seattle’s Redfin has a growing Portland presence—and $14.8 million in additional funding to help build it
- 26 You use your brain all week. Give a hungry zombie a chance to use it this Saturday at Urban Airship.
- 25 Meet the Startup: Get the behind the scenes on MoPix
- 25 Must see VCs: Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson stop in Portland to talk Venture Deals
- 25 Interested in the real time Web? Don’t miss the Keeping It Realtime Conference, Nov 7 and 8
- 24 Visualize your Twitter stream with Vizify… and then demolish it with an angry bird
- 24 REMINDER: Mobile Portland talks mobile marketing tonight
- 21 REMINDER: Consider the future of healthcare, Saturday at HealthCamp Oregon 2011
- 21 Why Portland is awesome for startups
- 20 Portland’s Perka gets a little Fast Company love
- 19 PDC, SAO, OEN… Yahtzee! Local organizations celebrate Portland startups and entrepreneurs
- 18 Startup Weekend Portland launches 14 companies into the wild
- 18 Meet the Startup: Discovering more details about Geoloqi
- 14 Bend Venture Conference likes the sound of Audioname
- 14 Boot-y call: Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN) lands grant to build startup accelerator “boot camps” statewide
- 13 Playing musical board members: Portland’s Rumblefish taps former Pandora board member
- 12 Your favorite Portland blog is having a meetup. And you’re invited.
- 11 Meet the Startup: Getting acquainted with the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN)
- 11 NetPayment nets $1.1 million in funding, led by Intuit
- 6 Burning the midnight oil on your startup? Join the club at Startup Weekend Portland
- 4 Meet the Startup: Working out the details on Journey Gym
- 4 Where will you be this weekend? Hopefully at WhereCampPDX
- 3 Starve Ups: Is that a COO in your backpocket or are you just happy to see me?
- 29 Bye bye to Beer and Blog founder, Justin Kistner
- 29 PDX Pipeline app: A handful of entertainment… err a pocketful of fun… um well it’s an app packed with tons of local events
- 27 Bambook? More bamboo for you with Grove MacBook backs
- 27 Meet the Startup: Learning a little bit about DailyPath
- 27 Is your customer feedback sweet or stinging? Find out with Hively
- 23 Interested in helping PDX11 build its mentor matching system?
- 21 Sneak peek: BankSimple gives you an inside look at what they’re building
- 20 Keep Portland weird (and smart): Attend the ROFLCon Summit for free
- 20 Like to show up early? LaunchSide will give you early access to all of the betas you can handle
- 20 Meet the Startup: Getting more details from ARM Insight and CardPower
- 15 A crash course in not crashing your startup
- 14 From WordPress curious to WordPress expert, WordCamp Portland has something for every wordsmith
- 13 Legion of Tech got screwed. Let’s help unscrew them.
- 13 Meet the Startup: Connecting with CPUsage
- 13 Rumblefish and Crucial make beautiful music (licensing) together
- 12 OpenSesame unlocks $2 million in funding
- 12 Bizzy tonight? There’s a free beer in it for you
- 7 Skip Newberry, economic advisor to Portland’s Mayor, named new president of the Software Association of Oregon (SAO)
- 6 Meet the Startup: Unwrapping the story behind Wantist
- 5 Clipbook is like Delicious for images
- 30 Meet the Startup: Talking about startups and legal services with AterWynne
- 25 AppFog Platform as a Service (PaaS) delivery model now as clear as day
- 24 CPUsage chats with The Next Web
- 24 Looking to share your knowledge about Portland? Look no further than the PortlandWiki
- 24 Banking on Portland: BankSimple consolidates its offices in the Rose City
- 23 Meet the Startup: Galaxy Sailor Productions
- 22 Urban Airship appoints CFO as it crosses the 5 billion push notification mark
- 19 Does your venture need a little more capital? OEN Venture Northwest 2011 may be the answer
- 16 Meet the Startup: Cooking up a different kind of startup with KitchenCru
- 15 PHP Fog gets $8 million and a new name: AppFog
- 12 Bloggers helping bloggers over beers… free beer that is
- 11 BankSimple banks $10 million in additional funding
- 10 Is the search for capital weighing you down? Maybe you need Lighter Capital
- 9 Meet the Startup: Spending some time with Sell Simply
- 8 Four years and seven hours ago… Silicon Florist is four
- 4 Being more critical of the Northwest tech scene: All Things Critical takes off the rose colored glasses
- 3 The dream of OpenID is alive in Portland: Janrain lands $15.5 million in funding
- 2 Meet the Startup: Chatting about startups and accounting with Perkins & Co.
- 1 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for July 2011
- 1 Procrastinators rejoice: Google joins PIE so PIE extends its application deadline and drops the founder math
- 31 Let’s take this offline: Anonymous posting bills in southwest Portland
- 29 Rose City ‘Til you Die (RCTID)? Meridian makes sure that death won’t be from the lack of chants, beverages, or facilities
- 29 REMINDER: API Hackday PDX happens Saturday. You should be there.
- 28 Making making mobile apps easier: PhoneGap celebrates PhoneGap Day in Portland
- 26 Looking for licensed music? Portland’s Rumblefish has an API — and more than 4 million licensed tracks in the wild
- 26 Meet the Startup: Sitting down with RealLead
- 20 Take a stake in STAKE, a better business magazine for better business
- 20 Who’s snapped Instagram photos of where you’re sitting right now? Get an Instalook
- 19 Want to hack with some of the best API folks in the business? Attend API Hackday PDX
- 19 Portland Seed Fund unveils its inaugural portfolio class
- 19 Meet the Startup: Getting in tight with Hively
- 18 Care to guess who the Portland Seed Fund selected for its first class?
- 18 With Clouds now available on PHP Fog the forecast looks bright
- 18 MeeGo meetup tonight. You should go. Err… I mean Yugo. Or not.
- 13 Mentor? Mentee? Mentor you? Mentor me? Let’s all get mentory, Portland
- 12 Meet the Startup: Spending some time with InvestorInMe
- 6 PIE: From side project to startup
- 5 Meet the Startup: Get ready to meet a whole lot more startups
- 28 Meet the Startup: A conversation with Portland Mayor Sam Adams (Part 2)
- 27 Software Association of Oregon (SAO) seeks new president
- 24 Thank you, Portland
- 23 Portland Mayor Sam Adams addresses the beautiful people of Open Source Bridge
- 23 Get two beers for the price of one: Groupon sponsors Beer and Blog Portland
- 22 Open Source Bridge happy hour: Mozilla and Emma hosting a get together at the Cleaners
- 21 Meet the Startup: A conversation with Portland Mayor Sam Adams (Part 1)
- 21 Five reasons your startup won’t be getting into that incubator or accelerator
- 20 Wheeling and Dell-ing: Portland startup RNA Networks acquired by Dell
- 17 Things are shaping up around here: ISITE selects location for new Portland headquarters
- 17 Whether you’re interested in Y Combinator or not, startups should watch this Paul Graham interview
- 15 Pitch Club: Skinny guys pitch ’til they’re burger
- 14 Meet the Startup: Hearing from Sheetal Dube of AudioName
- 10 Common sense isn’t common: Ryan Carson of Carsonified shares his startup insights
- 10 Want to be Bolder? There’s free liquid courage at Beer and Blog tonight
- 9 Swinging a big axe: Silicon Lumberjack looks to highlight failures and rot in the Silicon Forest startup scene
- 9 Portland partnering: Webtrends and ShopIgniter team up to offer social analytics for storefronts
- 8 Google smiles on Portland again: Get real-time TriMet data on Google Maps
- 7 Peeking in on a Portland User Group: Portland JavaScript Admirers
- 7 Meet the Startup: Stealing a moment with Ken Westin of GadgetTrak
- 6 Want your startup at lunch with Robert Scoble and Ashton Kutcher?
- 3 Jive talkin’: Tony Zingale, CEO of Jive Software, sits down with CNBC
- 2 Pitch over a (free) pitcher: Portland Seed Fund hosts last minute pitch sessions with TiE Oregon and Beer and Blog Portland
- 1 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for May 2011: PDC, tech events, and stock options
- 1 Oh it’s on. Beaverton startup Act-On lands $10 million in funding for cloud-based marketing automation
- 31 Portland gets to beta test another Google service first: Google Offers launches in Portland at Floyd’s
- 31 Meet the Startup: Catching up with David Embree of Athletepath
- 26 As hoped, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon throws another COICA block. This time, it’s a hold on the PROTECT IP bill.
- 25 This whole Facebook thing might just catch on: ShopIgniter secures $8 million in venture funding
- 24 I know what you’ll do this summer: 8 major upcoming tech and geek events in Portland
- 24 Meet the Startup: Chatting with Angela Jackson of the Portland Seed Fund
- 22 Dreading work tomorrow? Maybe it’s time to get a new gig at one of these awesome Portland companies
- 22 Need help understanding stock and options? Here’s a cheat sheet for entrepreneurs and startup employees
- 19 Weather schmeather! Rapture schmapture! BarCamp Portland and CivicApps hacking are this weekend
- 19 Thinking you missed out on the first #140conf in the Pacific Northwest? Think again. We’ve got your #140confNW right here.
- 18 Need a multibeat metronome? There’s an app for that
- 17 Sad irony: Portland Development Commission (PDC) forced to reduce staff including Gerald Baugh, the Software Cluster lead
- 17 Testify! Amazon Web Services evangelist Jeff Barr swings by the Portland AWS users group tonight
- 17 Jive Software is in a (deeper) relationship with Facebook ♥
- 16 TiE Oregon pulls together panel of heavy hitters from Portland mobile scene
- 15 Dear Portland Startups, Would you mind sharing your pretty face (or logo) again?
- 13 Portland Timbers vs Seattle Sounders: Be expecting a guest post on Portland from Geekwire’s John Cook, next week
- 13 FreshBooks visits Portland for Beer and Blog and Books and Bowling
- 11 HomeAway adds a Second Porch … and with it Facebook powered vacation rentals
- 10 You got your journalism in my digital. You got your digital in my journalism. Again. Camp.
- 10 OpenGovWest 2011: Helping our municipalities be more open, transparent, and engaged
- 6 Tablet, tablet, who’ll lead the tablets? Mobspot would like your opinion on the future of tablet computing
- 5 Question-able tactics: Wordspreadz strives to raise the bar for social network conversations
- 4 Get ready to rethink your wallet: db clay wallets are back… and taking inspiration from mobile design
- 3 One million more reasons to love COLOURlovers: $1 million in funding
- 3 Spend a few cycles hacking for good at the PDX Applications for Good Code-a-thon this weekend
- 3 Keep your customer support buzzing with Hively
- 3 Is that Hellboy in your pocket or are you just Buffy to see me? Dark Horse Comics unveils Dark Horse Digital iPhone and iPad apps
- 2 Former DEMOgod, Ontier Pixetell acquired; Brainshark to take over services
- 2 Pete Grillo talks Iterasi, startups, naming, investors, and getting the band back together
- 2 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for April 2011: Badass-ness, Code for a Better World, Portland 100 and more
- 1 Three techie Portland Kickstarter projects that could use a little love… and one that’s been successfully funded
- 1 Are you a majestic unicorn? 31+ Portland jobs that could be your dream job… even if you’re not a unicorn
- 29 Portland startups get a little love: Geoloqi wins at AppNation, PHP Fog wins at Under the Radar
- 29 Should your startup be seeking funding? Is funding an option? Are you even fundable?
- 28 You’d be stupid to ignore this startup and valuation insight from Dave McClure of 500 Startups
- 28 How Portland startups pioneered the Web 2.0 movement… without even knowing it
- 28 Facilitating the Foursquare factor: Janrain partners with Badgeville to offer game mechanics
- 28 Growing like bamboo: Portland’s Grove expands their bamboo case line to iPad 2
- 27 Amazing 3D projection mapping art? Yep, Portland startups do that too
- 27 Find yourself geolocated in Portland for JSConf or NodeConf? Join GeoIQ for some hacking and geogeeking, this Sunday
- 26 Code for a Better World: How Nike went from flirting with the idea of open data to creating a fellowship with Code for America
- 26 Alex Payne discusses BankSimple, Portland, investors, and startup life
- 25 How badass is your Portland neighborhood? Check the Portland Badass-ness Map
- 25 REMINDER: Demolicious + Mobile Portland = Mobile Demolicious, demos of tasty mobile apps, tonight
- 25 Survey says…! SurveyMonkey scoops up Wufoo for $35 million
- 23 Portland blogs BikePortland, Lund Report, and Neighborhood Notes named to Oregonian News Network project
- 23 CIO for the State of Oregon Dugan Petty wins innovation award for Jive Software implementation
- 21 ActiveTrak’s Ken Westin chats with KGW about unencrypted Apple iPhone tracking logs
- 20 Follow frenzy: 50 interesting Twitter folks (who also happen to be speaking at #140conf NW)
- 20 Want criticism and guidance on your elevator pitch? Pitch Club is Thursday night
- 19 Watch Y Combinator grads CarWoo and Cloudkick and the Portland Seed Fund launch from the comfort of your browser
- 18 Thanks to Innotech and WebVisions for sponsoring Silicon Florist
- 17 How many times can one man save the Internet? Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon is ratcheting up quite a record
- 17 Doing that Sunday job search thing? 25 Portland gigs that could be your next dream job
- 15 Mayor for a day: Join Whiffies and all your mayoral peers Saturday April 16 for Foursquare Day Portland 2011
- 14 Who’s doing the best social media work? SoMe Awards announces finalists
- 14 You’re all Webtastic and visionary, right? Right. So submit your entry for the 2011 Webvisionary Awards
- 14 I want to buy this. At this price. Tell me when that happens. Salemarked does, simply and elegantly
- 13 Oregon Y Combinator companies CarWoo and Cloudkick to help launch Portland Seed Fund
- 11 RDTN.org moves from plotting data to plotting to build devices to measure radiation levels in real time
- 11 Remembering and celebrating Paul @pdxflaneur Bingman, April 17
- 7 Miss your chance to wield an axe in a Portland Timbers photo? Play in a Timbers game instead
- 7 Want to see what a startup incubator demo day is like? 500 Startups gives you a seat at the show
- 6 Startup Weekend Portland IV launches 11 new startup ideas
- 5 Portland 100: Taking the next step in solidifying the Portland startup community
- 4 REMINDER: Small Society is buying you lunch on Wednesday. You know, in a Portland Lunch 2.0 kind of way.
- 4 Manic Monday: UX Tweetup, Open Source Bridge volunteer meeting, and Failures, Conjectures & Closure
- 3 In memoriam, Paul @pdxflaneur Bingman
- 1 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for March 2011
- 1 Avoid falling for April Fools’ pranks by… well by falling for Urban Airship’s April Fools’ prank
- 31 Portland, the city that hacks: PDX-OSGEO, Japan Crisis Camp, and PDX11 civic hackathons, Friday and Saturday
- 29 Looming deadlines: #140Conf NW speakers and 2011 Social Media “SoMe” Awards
- 28 Hey social media! Turn that frown… err world upside down
- 28 REMINDER: Attend Mobile Portland tonight to discover how mobile serves as a platform for change
- 25 There’s no such thing as bad press: Portland startups featured by Time Magazine, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Jimmy Fallon
- 24 Simply genius: Portland’s Cohdoo offers erasable, reusable iPhone sketch pads that make wireframing more tactile
- 24 Startup Weekend Portland IV: This time… it’s suburban
- 23 GadgetTrak recognized at International CTIA WIRELESS 2011 Emerging Tech Awards
- 23 Pitch Club: You’re not your khakis… I mean, unless your startup is about khakis
- 22 Android developer? Get ready to be happy. And pushy. Urban Airship streamlines push notifications for Android
- 22 With your iPhone and Meridian, getting lost in Powell’s Books may be a thing of the past
- 22 Picture yourself with funding: GigaPan Systems lands $1 million Angel round
- 21 MetaFilter is awesome and a dozen years old. Find out how that happened.
- 21 Miss out on Darius Monsef’s fireside chat at PIE? Don Park captured it for you
- 20 Turning to the people: RDTN.org provides current radiation readings from people in Japan
- 20 Gary Vaynerchuk returns to Portland to say Thank You
- 17 Help Panic help Japan: 100% of proceeds from today’s Panic sales go to earthquake victims
- 17 Shazam! Voila! and Alakazam! OpenSesame wins OEN Angel Oregon 2011 and 4-Tell walks away with the crowd favorite
- 15 Ripple effect: General Automotive Building headaches for startups cause further effects downstream
- 15 Portland could have the best cloud based startup… if you vote for PHP Fog
- 11 If Portland is truly going to foster the startup scene, user groups are a critical component
- 10 Finding funding faster: OTBC opens Oregon TechLaunch Boot Camp
- 8 Startup Weekend Portland progeny CPUsage ready to put your machine’s idle time to good use
- 7 Can Portland become the next Yobongo town?
- 4 Still liking Instagram for iPhone photography? Portland’s Gramfeed will make you fall in love all over again
- 3 Red Hat and Max Ogden team up for Map Hack, an all night geolocation hackathon
- 2 Why is Portland a good town for startups?
- 1 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for February 2011
- 28 Come see some Demolicious Portland projects, this Wednesday at Backspace
- 25 Freelance curious? Peat Bakke wants to share his insights on freelancing as a developer
- 24 SnOMG! is only one example of how the public sector can use social media. The first #140conf in the northwest will reveal others.
- 23 Trouble tracking the Thom Yorke meme? No worries. Portland’s Get Down Thom has you covered.
- 23 Is Portland, Oregon, really the de facto hub of open source? Montreal, Quebec, and Raleigh, North Carolina, say no
- 23 Give your mirror and your pets a break. Practice your pitch at Pitch Club instead.
- 21 How do you raise a million dollars in Portland in this economy? These folks will tell you, this Tuesday
- 18 Python and open source advocate Steve Holden wants to help Portland live up to its open source moniker
- 16 Pixelfari: Your Safari Web browser never looked so wonderfully 8-bit chunky
- 16 Searching for a free beer in Portland? Google Hotpot can help you find one at Beer and Blog, this Friday
- 16 Whereas, Portland startups are awesome: Mayor Sam Adams declares Portland Entrepreneurship Week, February 20-27, 2011
- 15 Don’t just demo, Portland. Demolicious. (Your favorite tech demo night is back.)
- 11 Urban Airship offers guidance on how to rawk SXSW
- 11 Getting to know the Oregon chapter of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs)
- 10 How important was your K-12 education to your brave new world techie job of today?
- 10 What if you could see through your iPhone like a heads-up display? With MegaReader you can
- 8 Want to sell that CafePress tshirt you just made to your Facebook fans? Talk to ShopIgniter
- 7 From AboutUs to Ziba Design: 18 awesome jobs for the technically inclined
- 6 Rose City ‘Til I Die: Portland Timbers’ Flickr photostream crowdsources PDX’s love of soccer
- 4 Get your Portland startup and tech discussions on: Introducing Silicon Florist forums
- 4 Bending server configuration to your will just got a bunch easier with Puppet Enterprise
- 3 Since there’s no blimp on Sunday, get your fill of dirigibles with Urban Airship on Saturday
- 2 Startup America Partnership: Obama administration plans to support entrepreneurs and accelerate startup activity
- 1 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for January 2011: Urban Airship Lunch 2.0, TSAzr, SXSW, and Pitch Club
- 28 Without Taplister, your iPhone is only a glorified beer coaster
- 27 Craving more Internet connectivity? Don’t miss the Portland Broadband Strategic Plan Kick-Off event, January 28—over broadband even, if you like
- 26 Sprechen Sie open source? Here are two upcoming events where you should be doing that speaking
- 25 Portland Ten thinks bigger, plans expansion to become the United States 100 or Global 1000 or something
- 24 Get a gander at Puppet Labs new space, this Wednesday evening
- 21 How cool are you? Nominations for the TechAmerica Oregon TechAwards Cool Product of the Year are now open
- 21 Facebook in Oregon: Sure there’s Prineville, but did you know there’s the OSU Open Source Lab too?
- 20 Haven’t seen any good design lately? Grab your iPad and check DesignScene
- 19 Need a new gig in the new year? AboutUs, Emerge, Emma, EdZapp, Janrain, and OSU OSL are hiring
- 13 Keeping the baggage handlers on the tarmac: TSAzr gives you all the TSA info you need for security checkpoints at every airport
- 13 Pitch Club: People are always asking me if I know venture capitalists
- 13 Got some questions about your pics? Monday might be a good day to Learn Photography Tips
- 12 There’s a whole bunch of Portland magic in that little Amazon Gold Box on your iPhone
- 12 Clicky talks about their business, startups, venture capital, and differences between Portland and the Valley
- 11 Portland funding gets cloudy and foggy: Madrona leads $1.8 million investment in PHP Fog
- 10 Want to stay informed about your flight in midair without wifi? Your iPhone is your WindowSeat
- 7 SXSW curious? Practice your SXSW 2011 Interactive party skills in Portland on January 11
- 5 Small Society, big impact: Portland iPhone agency donates $10,000 to local charities
- 5 Kickstarter loses one Portland connection but gains another. (And it happens to be their most successful project ever.)
- 5 How Dachis Group’s $30 million in funding relates to Portland, Oregon
- 4 Still clinging to 2010: Visualizing Silicon Florist headlines from last year
- 3 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for December 2010
- 30 Top 20 Silicon Florist posts for 2010
- 28 Need another addicting game for your iPhone or iPad? Look no further than Portland’s own Ramps
- 15 Urban Airship CEO Scott Kveton sits down with Robert Scoble, chats about push, apps, and future of mobile (Yes, I’m a poet. I know it.)
- 15 eBay hits the “Buy It Now” button on Critical Path, joins Portland mobile development scene
- 15 I want my single sign on. Janrain adds MTV Networks to their customer roster. And money to the coffer.
- 14 Could you use an Angel? Early bird applications for OEN Angel Oregon 2011 close December 15 at 5 PM
- 13 Cyborg anthropology? An interview with Portland’s Amber Case from TEDWomen
- 9 Could your startup use more exposure? Apply for the SXSW Interactive 2011 Accelerator [UPDATED]
- 6 Legion of Tech reaches resolution on embezzlement
- 3 Show your appreciation for Beer and Blog Portland’s favorite server, Lexie
- 2 PDC Software Summit: Mayor Sam Adams wants the City of Portland to be known as a “laboratory of innovation”
- 1 In the spirit of the season: 66% of all Silicon Florist revenue in December will go to Oregon Food Bank
- 1 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for November 2010: Why Portland? Kitzhaber, Dudley, Wyden, and Al Gore
- 1 Is that LexisNexis in your Iterasi archives or are you just happy to see me?
- 29 How does Portland become more attractive for venture capital investment?
- 24 Turkey Tracker 2010: It’s not a geeky Portland Thanksgiving without streaming video, an Arduino, Twitter, and some geogeeking
- 22 Al Gore may have invented the Information Superhighway, but Oregon Senator Ron Wyden just saved the Internet
- 19 Job? Job? Who’s got the Portland job? Oh. These folks do.
- 18 Fear change? Steer clear of FMYI’s latest project, Change Agents Unite
- 15 Want to report municipal problems in the de facto hub of open source? There’s no better way than the City of Portland Android app
- 12 When one door closes another opens… and here are some of those open doors in Portland
- 11 Sad news: InstantAction now instantly inactive
- 11 Emma? This is the Portland tech community. Portland tech community? Meet Emma… and her free beer
- 11 Experience The Brave New World of Media today… or at least on November 17
- 10 Calling all you digital journalist types! Digital Journalism Social Hour returns November 16
- 10 Want to profit off of streaming media? Attend OEN PubTalk tonight. I mean in person.
- 9 Everything is a product management problem
- 9 Portland’s Grove makes exceptionally awesome iPhone 4 cases out of bamboo—and for a limited time old skateboards
- 8 Like old flicks, cheesy B movies, and classic television? Grab your iPhone or iPad and wander into the Movie Vault
- 8 Bus for the WIN! Head down to Ignite Corvallis and Willamette Innovators Night with wifi and free beer
- 8 Looking for that early stage investment? OTBC offers 11 steps for getting investor ready
- 6 Portland’s Parent Hacks recognized by Babble as Most Useful Mom Blog, #10 of the Top 50 Mom Blogs
- 5 Let’s put Oregon back to work. Or at least Portland. Here are some options.
- 5 Want to have lunch with Imogen Heap today? Elemental Technologies can help. In streaming 1080 HD.
- 4 Love Instagram for iPhone photography? Well, here’s another reason to love it, Portland
- 4 Do you know the importance of a SkyLedger? Awesome Web based bookkeeping and accounting at your fingertips
- 3 To buckle up, please insert the metal tab… Urban Airship lands $5.4 million and 25,000 square feet of office space
- 2 My Very First App: Night & Day Studios brings the art of Eric Carle to the iPhone
- 2 All fired up to present at Ignite Portland 10? Cool your jets.
- 2 Kitzhaber vs Dudley: The Oregon governor race and the tale of the social media tape
- 1 Max Ogden of CivicApps PDX API fame garners Code for America fellowship
- 1 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for October 2010: Portland Seed Fund, Android, Bacon, and Cheezburger
- 29 Portland tech jobs abound. Find yourself a new gig.
- 29 REMINDER: Last chance to respond to last software community survey from the Portland Development Commission
- 28 GovHub: Portland’s open source and open government love child could be destined to help all open government entities
- 28 Crank on Calagator to make sure the Portland tech community stays connected–and other communities stay connected too
- 28 Startup Weekend Portland crams founders, builders, and promoters into a 54-hour entrepreneurial hotbox once again
- 27 Open Affairs TV: It’s like C-SPAN only less boring and more open source-y
- 27 Portland iPhone hacker bat signal: Free pizza, free beer, and a little Janrain iPhone Hackfest tonight
- 27 Need a new gig? Jama Software seems to be jumping
- 26 Portland’s Multnomah County takes a page from the startup playbook, opting for Google Apps over Microsoft Office
- 26 Kryptiq partners with Surescripts to reinvent healthcare and gets some extra cash to boot
- 26 Silicon Florist: Working to make a good thing even better
- 25 WHEREAS Portland loves open source: City of Portland declares Open Source in Government Week
- 25 Real time Web analytics service Clicky updates interface… and gets an earful
- 22 Startup and tech jobs in Portland, Oregon, or it’s Friday and I’m running out of creative headlines
- 22 Wonder Woman Day: Take the day to geek out on comic books instead of tech and support a good cause
- 21 Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. Or Sell Simply where you’re one tweet away from selling. (And buying ain’t that hard either.)
- 21 Portland startups take note: Kleiner Perkins is going after the social Web in a big way
- 21 Building your startup using Amazon Web Services? Would $100,000 in prizes help?
- 20 Annoyed by FarmVille, Mafia Wars, or FrontierVille? Thank Portland’s Puppet Labs for helping configure Zynga’s servers.
- 20 How to build a successful startup in 21 days (Hint: Add bacon)
- 20 Checking in on Portland Ten and its drive to incubate 10 $1 million Portland startups by October 2010
- 19 City of Portland: Calling all Androids! Well, at least these specific models of Android devices.
- 18 Startup School: Zuckerberg on startups, the “Instant startup mix” that is Silicon Valley, and just liking to build things
- 18 Trying to be a great dad? Maybe you’re Father Apprentice material.
- 15 Who’s hiring? ActiveTrak (x3), CardPower, New Relic, Puppet Labs, and Urban Airship
- 15 Mentors, user groups, and seed funding: Portland Development Commission finishes up the startup and tech community conversation
- 14 Portland reddit: Relying on the power of predditors for the latest on all things Portland
- 14 Portland inside: MapBox iPad mapping app has Portland mobile geogeeking under the hood
- 13 BarCamp Portland 4 could use your help
- 13 Care to venture a guess as to who got picked for OEN Venture Northwest 2010? Oh. Fine. Here’s the list then.
- 13 Yes, Portland, you can has Cheezburger… and Teh Itteh Bitteh Book of Kittehs
- 13 Third time’s a charm: Open Source Bridge 3, June 21-24, 2011. This time… it’s personal.
- 12 This is going down on your permanent (federal) record: Iterasi partners with NTIS
- 12 Portland Seed Fund: Talking with fund manager Angela Jackson of Bridge City Ventures
- 11 Doing your civic duty today… or at least your Portland CivicApps duty
- 8 Work it, Portland: ActiveTrak, CardPower, Instrument, Rumblefish, and Urban Airship are all hiring
- 8 Mike Rogoway is kicking my ass… and that’s awesome.
- 7 Spoiler alert: pdx.fm is very likely metamorphosing into cascadia.fm
- 7 Some strings attached: Puppet Labs acquires open source framework Marionette Collective
- 7 Virtual gift cards mean real cash for Portland’s Giftango, in the form of $5 million in funding
- 6 TriMet: Extolling the virtues of open data in the Portland, Oregon, transit system
- 6 Got a burning idea on how to fix government with open source? You’ve got five minutes. Go.
- 5 Interested in presenting at an Ignite? Ignite Corvallis 3 may be your opportunity
- 4 Portland Seed Fund: Y Combinator, it’s not. (Unconstitutional, it may be.)
- 2 Cyborg Sunday: Hacking open government data following CyborgCamp Portland 2010
- 1 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for September 2010: Beers with BankSimple beats OSCON, Urban Airship more popular than free beer
- 30 Expose yourself to art: CreativeCares at Beer and Blog and CyborgCamp GPS art show
- 29 Bend Venture Conference: Tech startups ActiveTrak, CPUsage, LogicBox, Manzama, StreamIt, and Web Blox vie for venture funding
- 28 I almost talked to Arrington once and other more valuable tales from the TechCrunch trenches
- 24 Camp camp campity camp: Need to go camping? Well, visit WhereCampPDX or Cre8camp this weekend
- 24 Beer, blogging… what could be more simple? How about BankSimple at Beer and Blog?
- 23 It’s official. OSCON 2011 will be held in Portland, the unofficial hub of open source.
- 23 Ignite Portland 9: How to win at Ignite or Tips and tricks for getting the most out of your Ignite experience
- 22 TextNoMore: It’s like a nicotine patch to help prevent texting while driving
- 22 Digital Trends goes Yahoo!
- 21 Who edits Wikipedia? All kinds of people. Who edits (and produces) videos about who edits Wikipedia? Portland folks
- 21 Can you hear me now? Urban Airship partners with Verizon Wireless to provide push notification services for developers
- 17 Free beer at Beer and Blog courtesy of Deluxe plus some WordCamp Portland folks too
- 16 ActiveTrak GadgetTrak Mobile 3 available off the shelf at more than 2000 independent wireless retailers
- 14 Linus Torvalds—Portland’s adopted open source guru—secures US citizenship
- 14 OurPDX goes on hiatus as management plans for ‘doing it right’
- 10 Streaming 3D HD at 1080p? Yeah, Portland’s Elemental Technologies does that
- 8 Want an easy-to-use marketplace for eLearning? It could be as simple as OpenSesame
- 8 WordCamp Portland 2010: Time is running out to see Matt Mullenweg, Mark Jaquith, Jane Wells, and more
- 7 SweetSpot hits the… Oh. Um. Well, it secures seed funding for diabetes data services
- 3 Labor Day weekend means jobs, gigs, and Portland people for hire
- 2 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for August 2010
- 1 First Thursday Portland: Forkfly, Tenfour, and 90210
- 31 Portland’s PingGadget purports to take a page from Twitter and a page from Foursquare
- 27 REMINDER: SXSW panel voting ends today; Twitter and Facebook streams return to regularly scheduled programming
- 25 REMINDER: Tonight, free beer, free pizza… Oh and maybe a little something about Intel Atom, your apps, and a little cash
- 25 Not sure where to start? StartupDay 2010 (and this discount) can help you start your startup
- 23 REMINDER: Mobile Portland invites panel of educators to discuss mobile and education tonight
- 19 On open source and government: An accidental manifesto
- 18 Portland Panel Picker: Vote for these SXSW Interactive panel proposals from Portland
- 17 Paperbacking Portland geogeeking: Adam DuVander releases Map Scripting 101
- 16 Another Portlander plans to revolutionize banking: Bill DeRouchey joins BankSimple
- 13 Free beer (and job offers) from Wieden + Kennedy at Beer and Blog this week. No word on the Old Spice sample packs.
- 12 Can you find the Portland connection in the Class of Twitter HQ?
- 11 Good [Urban Airship] things come in threes: Push for Android, AirDrop pushes your Android apps, and Glaspey pulls up a chair
- 10 Webtrends Apps: Webtrends picks up WYSIWYG Facebook and iPhone app tool Transpond
- 9 Portland open source, startups, and mobile… oh my! The all time top 30 posts on Silicon Florist (so far)
- 9 Time for big kid pants: Silicon Florist is three years old
- 6 You look like you could use a different job… or maybe a job, period.
- 4 Google Wave may have hit low tide, but Portland’s contribution to the project is still a high watermark
- 3 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for July 2010
- 3 REMINDER: Talk to the Portland Development Commission (PDC) today about the software community and the latest survey results
- 2 If your stuff gets stolen, wouldn’t you rather track all of the culprits from one GadgetTrak dashboard?
- 29 Have you responded to the second PDC software community survey yet? Want to talk about it?
- 28 What’d you get me? Portland-based Giftango signs Amazon, JC Penney, Lowe’s, Nike, and a slew of other big brands for virtual gift cards
- 26 Girl in your shirt, it’s not. But a foosball playing Kentucky boy in front of a bunch of VCs ain’t half bad neither.
- 22 Did you miss Portland Mayor Sam Adams and Tim O’Reilly at the CivicApps awards? Well, here’s what you missed
- 22 Turn any iOS 4 iPhone into a photo booth with Photomaton. Maybe get your Foursquare Photogenic badge, too.
- 21 Jive Software lands an additional $30 million, bringing more Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers money to Portland
- 20 Interested in the latest in video technology? You won’t want to miss Broadercasting tonight
- 20 One of these Portland CivicApps is not like the other. It’s the best of the bunch.
- 19 REMINDER: Like it cloudy? Don’t miss CloudCamp PDX at OSCON tonight
- 19 Puppet Labs proves Portland open source startups can find funding (to the tune of $5 million)
- 16 Bacon at Beer and Blog tonight. Ubuntu and community management flavored Bacon.
- 14 Survey, survey, who has the survey? Portland Development Commission (PDC) does. For you. Again.
- 12 WordCamp Portland 2010 announces those folks who are going to be sharing their knowledge on WordPress goodness
- 9 Looking for a few good Portland jobs? Here you go
- 7 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for June 2010
- 6 PhoneGap fills your mobile development knowledge gap with training in Portland (and a discount)
- 3 30 Hour Day: Give and take
- 1 30 Hour Day: Why it’s been a little quiet around these parts this week
- 28 Got iOS 4? Get your virtual guitar on with the Twang iPhone app
- 25 Job searching this weekend? Here are a dozen Portland jobs to add to your list
- 24 Breaking out of your shell: Webtrends 101 offers an incubator space for Portland digital marketing startups
- 24 Kicking ass: Portland’s Small Society and Urban Airship help bring Democratic National Committee iPhone/iPad app to life
- 21 GenJuice: Official Gen Y entrepreneur tour swings by Portland June 23
- 18 Need a job? An intern? A gig? These Portland opportunities might be just the things you’re seeking
- 18 Embracing their inner Portlandness: ReadWriteWeb sponsors Portland Beer and Blog tonight
- 16 Ideas 4 Oregon: Meyer Memorial Trust thinks you have a million dollar idea for Oregon
- 15 30 Hour Day needs your help
- 15 ThePortlander marks one year of disrupting the Portland news scene
- 11 Second Porch could use a social media marketing person and Elemental has a number of positions open
- 10 memePDX 037: Live from Open Source Bridge
- 9 Want to read this blog post faster? There’s an iPhone/iPad app for that called QuickReader.
- 7 Looking for the largest English-language World Cup soccer blog? Look no further than Portland. Well, and just a bit north.
- 4 Seven potential dream jobs await you on the Silicon Florist job and gig board
- 2 Open Source Bridge Startup Crawl: Meet Facebook, JanRain, Puppet Labs, Urban Airship, Wieden + Kennedy, and Taplister… well and Portland’s beer
- 1 Top ten Silicon Florist posts for May 2010
- 1 Will microfunding work in Portland? It could take The Miracle to find out
- 28 Nine opportunities (and then some) to find your Portland dream job
- 27 memePDX 036: Live from WebVisions, Jive moves HQ, Portland software community census, Stumptown Game Machine acquired, Google I/O
- 26 Seesmic CTO Johann Romefort visiting Portland. What should he do while he’s here?
- 24 Need just a bit more room to work? Avatron lets you extend your laptop monitor to your iPad with Air Display
- 24 Town Hall: Discuss the results of the initial Portland Development Commission (PDC) software cluster survey
- 21 REMINDER: Portland Code Camp and SQL Saturday are tomorrow
- 21 Need work? Six Portland jobs and one gig that could put you to work
- 20 And now for something completely different: memePDX Live from WebVisions 2010
- 18 Portland jobs, gigs, and skills for hire: Relaunching the Silicon Florist Job & Gig board
- 18 REMINDER: Take a few seconds to respond to the Portland software community census
- 17 Iron Man? Spider-man? Batman? Most super heroes are side projects. Just like yours.
- 17 OurPDX: Ensemble Portland blog relaunches under new management
- 14 Is your schedule open? Open Source Bridge and OSCON release final schedules for 2010
- 13 memePDX: An old school text edition of the show for your Kindle or something
- 12 WebVisions 2010: All the webby goodness at which you can shake a digital stick… and it could be free for you
- 11 What are the most popular iPhone app icon colors? With Icon Rainbow, now you know
- 10 When I’m writing about Beer and Blog this early in the week, it must be big (Hint: Twice as big)
- 6 memePDX 035: PDC software cluster, Beer and Blog with the Timbers, InnoTech and SoMe, 1 million iPads, TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington moves to Seattle
- 5 REMINDER: InnoTech and the SoMe Awards are Thursday. It’s not too late to attend… for free.
- 4 Portland Development Commission (PDC) releases initial results from Software cluster survey
- 4 WordCamp Portland 2010: It’s never to early to secure speakers… or to submit your WordPress talk proposals
- 3 Spring cleaning: Keeping up with all that’s happening around the Silicon Forest startup scene
- 3 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for April 2010
- 30 Psst! Hey buddy! Want to hack on a little open municipal data from Portland?
- 29 memePDX 034: WordCamp Portland and Open Source Bridge speakers, MDiTV, Oregon Education gets Googled, and HP acquires Palm
- 28 Healthy content: MDiTV looks to bring video content about your health to the Web
- 28 What did I miss? Recapping Twitter Chirp, Facebook f8, Inside Social Apps, and iPadDevCamp
- 27 Portland Code Camp and SQL Saturday: Two free Portland tech events that taste great together
- 26 Governor of social media: What Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn say about the Oregon 2010 gubernatorial candidates
- 23 I know what you did this summer: Filling your calendar with big Portland tech events
- 22 memePDX 033: Portland pitch day, Foursquare Day, CivicApps, Mugasha Halo 3 track, Marshall Kirkpatrick and ReadWriteWeb, iPhone 4, more Foursquare Yahoo! jibber jabber
- 20 Portland, open data, and CivicApps: 101 open datasets for your geeking pleasure
- 20 Master Chief won’t mind: Mugasha scores exclusive on Tritonal bootleg Halo 3 track and you get it for free
- 19 Startup, open source, and/or independent tech folks: Enlighten the City of Portland and Portland Development Commission (PDC) about your world. Please?
- 16 One night only! The fabulous Portland Foursquare Day, Whiffies pies, and Strange Love Live swarm
- 16 Portland blogger extraordinaire Marshall Kirkpatrick promoted to co-editor of leading tech blog ReadWriteWeb
- 15 In Portland, every day is Foursquare day. But April 16? It’s a swarm for the official Portland Foursquare Day.
- 15 memePDX 032: Awards abound, Urban Airship and Interscope, Open Source GIS Unconference, Twitter buys Tweetie and releases ad concept
- 14 Portland pitch day: April 22 pitch True Ventures or Funding Universe CrowdPitch (Better yet, pitch both)
- 14 FAIL tale: Post mortem on the demise of Portland’s SplashCast
- 12 Reward yourself: OEN Tom Holce Entrepreneurship Awards, SoMe Awards, and WebVisions Webvisionary Awards all accepting nominations
- 9 These go to eleven: Urban Airship powers Interscope push notifications, Rock Show brings concert posters to the iPad
- 8 memePDX 031: Jobs in Portland, iPad arrives, Geomena API, Google Buzz, iPhone OS 4.0, and Foursquare
- 8 Geeks aren’t necessarily known for their people skills. Until now. Thanks to Oregon Training Network.
- 6 In Portland, people are primarily positive about the Apple iPad
- 6 Portland Calagator spawns Bend BendCal and Corvallis Corvalligator, asks for your feedback
- 5 What down economy? Five Portland startups looking to hire developers and technical talent
- 2 Barley, hops, and Google Fiber: Beer and Blog Portland offers Google wooing nectar Gigabit IPA tonight
- 2 Blogging, open source, and now mobile: Small Society Apple iPad app furthers Portland’s love affair with WordPress
- 1 Top 10 Silicon Florist posts for March 2010
- 1 memePDX 030: #pdxboom, Kickball, TechStars Seattle, Apple iPad, JooJoo, New iPhones, and Android Froyo
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