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title: 'Meet the Startup: Serial entrepreneur Pete Grillo discusses the Portland startup scene'
date: '2012-03-13T11:12:22-07:00'
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# Meet the Startup: Serial entrepreneur Pete Grillo discusses the Portland startup scene

Usually on [Meet the Startup](http://meetthestartup.com "Meet the Startup"), we tend to spend time talking about companies and a little time talking about the Portland startup scene. This time, we seem to have turned the usual format on its head.

And honestly? Who better to talk about the Portland startup scene than [Pete Grillo](http://twitter.com/petegrillo "Pete Grillo"), a guy who has founded companies, sold companies, and invested in and [advised](http://siliconflorist.com/2012/03/06/meet-startup-captain-speaking-urban-airship/ "Meet the Startup: Urban Airship") some of the next generation of startups here—all while running his latest startup, [Iterasi](http://www.iterasi.com/ "Iterasi").

For more interviews, subscribe to [Meet the Startup on YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/user/MeetTheStartup "Meet the Startup on YouTube"), follow @MeettheStartup or like [Meet the Startup on Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/MeettheStartup "Meet the Startup on Facebook").