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title: 'Why Portland is awesome for startups'
date: '2011-10-21T10:05:39-07:00'
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  - '#featured'
  - Oregon
  - Portland
tags:
  - Portland
  - Startups
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# Why Portland is awesome for startups

You hear me blather on and on about how awesome Portland is for startups. I mean, it’s really good. Like [one of the most entrepreneurial places in the world](http://siliconflorist.com/2009/07/30/portland-oregon-entrepreneurial-town-world/). I mean it.

But how do the startups themselves feel about it? Well, the [Portland Development Commission](http://pdc.us/ "PDC") went out and talked to a few of them. And here’s what they said.