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title: 'Can the Built Oregon consumer product startup accelerator have an impact? Yeah, maybe.'
date: '2019-05-02T09:49:04-07:00'
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categories:
  - accelerator
  - Oregon
  - Portland
  - Startups
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  - accelerator
  - built
  - 'built oregon'
  - consumer
  - Product
  - Startup
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# Can the Built Oregon consumer product startup accelerator have an impact? Yeah, maybe.

Being in the startup acceleration and mentoring business, I do love me some status reports and updates. Even if that startup happens to be an accelerator itself. And that’s why I was happy to see this latest [update from Mitch Daugherty on the Built Oregon consumer product accelerator project](https://medium.com/built-oregon/looking-beyond-functional-fixedness-to-create-an-impactful-organization-16e7583088de).

> As the application deadline for the inaugural Built Consumer Product Accelerator passed last Friday night, I was drawn to watch Wildfang founder, Emma McIlroy’s TEDxPortland talk again. It’s a talk focused on the optimistic mindset that crazy ideas just might work. That instead of saying “No,” we’re better off saying “Yeah, maybe.”
> 
> You see, over the past 4 years on a total budget of around $100K, the Built crew has never — ever — stopped having that “Yeah, maybe” attitude to make Oregon the hub of consumer product innovation and entrepreneurship.

To read about those accomplishments and the current status of the accelerator, visit “[Looking beyond ‘functional fixedness’ to create an impactful organization](https://medium.com/built-oregon/looking-beyond-functional-fixedness-to-create-an-impactful-organization-16e7583088de).”

*\[Full disclosure: I am the cofounder and general manager of PIE. PIE is behind the scenes helping to manage the Built Accelerator. I am also the cofounder of Built Oregon.\]*