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title: 'Greenlight Greater Portland: Sending another Portland startup contingent'
date: '2009-06-10T14:35:51-07:00'
type: post
word_count: 542
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categories:
  - Greenlight
  - GreenlightGreaterPortland
  - Oregon
  - Portland
  - Vancouver
  - Washington
tags:
  - 'Annual Report'
  - 'greenlight greater portland'
  - Oregon
  - Portland
  - 'Prosperity index'
  - Startups
---

# Greenlight Greater Portland: Sending another Portland startup contingent

For someone who covers startups, it’s incredibly interesting to keep tabs on an economic development body—especially one that’s a startup itself—like [Greenlight Greater Portland](http://www.greenlightgreaterportland.com/).

Last year, I gathered a table of [Portland startups and influencers to listen to the Greenlight Greater Portland’s first “Greater Prosperity Index” report](http://siliconflorist.com/2008/06/03/greenlight-greater-portland-startup-delegation-welcomes-your-input/ "Greenlight Greater Portland: Startup delegation welcomes your input"). This year, I decided to do exactly the same thing for [Greenlight’s second report](http://greenlightgreaterportland.com/news-events/2009/02/26/greenlight-annual-meeting-june-11-2009/ "Greenlight Greater Portland Second Annual Meeting").

Not familiar? Well, Greenlight Greater Portland was established to assist with [economic development throughout the three counties of Portland, as well as across the Columbia in Vancouver](http://www.greenlightgreaterportland.com/about-greenlight-economic-development-initiative/ "ABout Greenlight Greater Portland economic development initiative").

> A few years back, a handful of greater Portland business leaders pooled their resources and invested their time to launch Greenlight Greater Portland, now the region’s only private-sector-led economic development initiative. Greenlight’s mission is to promote the greater Portland-Vancouver MSA to bring good companies and jobs to the region and to support and grow the diverse businesses that have made their home here.

I think it’s important for startup types to hear the report, but I think it’s even more important for Greenlight Greater Portland to know that we’re listening and paying attention. Hence, the table.

So who is going this year? I’m glad you asked. I’m proud to have the following folks at the table:

- [David Abramowski](http://twitter.com/dabramowski "David Abramowski"), [MioWorks](http://mioworks.com "MioWorks")
- [Carolynn Duncan](http://twitter.com/hundreddollar "Carolynn Duncan"), [Portland Ten](http://portlandten.com "Portland Ten")
- [Dawn Foster](http://twitter.com/geekygirldawn "Dawn Foster"), [Shizzow](http://shizzow.com "Shizzow") and [Fast Wonder Consulting](http://fastwonderblog.com "Fast Wonder")
- [Josh Friedman](http://twitter.com/technojosh "Josh Friedman"), [Nedspace](http://nedspace.com "Nedspace")
- [Jason Grigsby](http://twitter.com/grigs "Jason Grigsby"), [Cloud Four](http://cloudfour.com "Cloud Four")
- [Ray King](http://twitter.com/rathbone "Ray King"), [AboutUs](http://aboutus.org "AboutUs")
- [Scott Kveton](http://twitter.com/kveton "Scott Kveton"), [Software Association of Oregon (SAO)](http://sao.org "SAO") and [Bacn.com](http://bacn.com "Bacn")
- [Toby Lucich](http://twitter.com/tlucich "Toby Lucich"), [Return](http://returncorp.com "Return")
- [Eva Schweber](http://twitter.com/evacatherder "Eva Schweber"), [CubeSpace](http://cubespacepdx.com "CubeSpace")

Last year, I had hoped there would be some sort of Q&A period, but there wasn’t much of that after the PDC morning session. So this time around, I’m encouraging you to ping these folks to let them know that you’d like their perspectives on the event itself.

I know I would. I’d like to hear their responses to any number of questions. What is Greenlight Greater Portland doing for the startup environment? How are they helping the Creative Class whom they featured, last year? How are Greenlight’s efforts going to directly affect us?

Hopefully, we can get a good selection of blog posts and tweets from this very insightful crowd—both during and after tomorrow’s annual report.

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