--- title: 'Silicon Florist links arrangement for February 23, 2022 šŸ’' date: '2022-02-23T20:43:18-08:00' type: post word_count: 667 char_count: 4515 tokens: 868 categories: - Links - Oregon - Portland - Startups tags: - link - Links - 'links arrangement' - 'silicon florist' --- # Silicon Florist links arrangement for February 23, 2022 šŸ’ ### [Five Years Ago, I Set Out To Prove A VC Firm Could Invest With A Diversity Thesis. Hereā€™s Where We Are Today.](https://news.crunchbase.com/news/diverse-founders-report-harlem-capital-black-latino-founders/) In 2017, I started compiling a list of Black and Latino founders who had raised $1 million of VC funding as there wasnā€™t any aggregated list online. I simply wanted to know who the top diverse founders were as they were the founders I, as a venture investor, wanted to serve. So I started pooling data from all over the internet. > If anyone knows [\#webdevelopers](https://twitter.com/hashtag/webdevelopers?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) in the [\#portland](https://twitter.com/hashtag/portland?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) OR area (or [\#pnw](https://twitter.com/hashtag/pnw?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) in general) and could connect me with them I would appreciate it šŸ™šŸ½ Iā€™m trying to find people in my local area to begin getting familiar with the job market up here + make friends. > > ā€” Alondra (@moracodes) [February 22, 2022](https://twitter.com/moracodes/status/1496119904684376066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ### [Under The Hood: How Seed Investor Initialized Spots Future Unicorns](https://news.crunchbase.com/news/initialized-capital-garry-tan-seed-unicorn-investor-under-the-hood/) In the 10 years since Initializedā€™s founding, the San Francisco-based firm has racked up an impressive stable of unicorn startupsā€”private companies now valued at $1 billion or moreā€”in its portfolio. ### [How to Intentionally Structure & Scale Company Communications](https://medium.com/levelshealth/how-to-intentionally-structure-scale-company-communications-2c4774e1f8c8) As a distributed team at Levels that works asynchronously, weā€™re ready to do whatever we can to ensure our team can do their best work and make progress towards an important mission. We take the responsibility to ensure that our tools, process, and culture allow for this. (h/t [Jeff Martens](https://twitter.com/jmartens)) ### [Embracing Impostor Syndrome](https://www.justindfuller.com/2022/02/embracing-impostor-syndrome/) As Iā€™ve progressed through my career, Iā€™ve experienced increasing imposter syndrome. Itā€™s never gone away. I understand this is a common feeling, particularly in software engineering. Itā€™s called Imposter Syndrome because you feel like you are not qualified to do your job ā€” like youā€™re pretending but no one has figured it out. ### [Shades of Entrepreneurship podcast: CEO & Founder of PodInbox: Pat Cheung](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ceo-founder-of-podinbox-pat-cheung/id1552577775?i=1000551970519) How do people come up with new ideas? One of the best ways to spark inspiration is observation. In this episode, a serial entrepreneur discusses the importance of customer input to making a successful product. > Y'all know we can't do [\#BlackHistoryMonth](https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackHistoryMonth?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) properly without putting out the "signal". This Friday we'll be at [@DeadstockPDX](https://twitter.com/DeadstockPDX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) new iteration "Concourse Coffee" with free drinks to [@BuiltOregon](https://twitter.com/BuiltOregon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) AND a chance to win sneakers from the homies at [@tradeblock\_us](https://twitter.com/tradeblock_us?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw). [\#BHM](https://twitter.com/hashtag/BHM?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [\#BlackSignal](https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackSignal?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/5LP7Fkewjm](https://t.co/5LP7Fkewjm) > > ā€” Stephen Green (@PDXStephenG) [February 23, 2022](https://twitter.com/PDXStephenG/status/1496360237720289284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ### [REMINDER: PIEā€™s next experiment](https://blog.piepdx.com/2022/02/23/reminder-pies-next-experiment/) Now, itā€™s time for a new experiment. One that holds the potential to change the impact of PIE. In a way that could prove to be as meaningful as our transition from a coworking space to a startup accelerator program more than a decade ago. ### [Portland Lunch 2.0: Virtually (March 2, 2022)](https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Lunch-2-0/events/283662133/) Thereā€™s no better time to reconnect with folks in the community with whom youā€™ve lost touch. And thereā€™s no better way to gather with a random smattering of your startup community peers than Portland Lunch 2.0. Even if it is virtually. No agenda. No talks. Just (virtual) lunch with your community.