Month: November 2023

Not a week goes by that I don’t have at least a dozen conversations with folks who are interested in getting more engaged with the Portland startup community. But if we haven’t yet had the opportunity to have that conversation, I wanted to help make that happen. At scale. So that you can get more connected to our community in 2024.

The more people you tell about your startup, the better. Not only does it help socialize your concept, it helps you get better at telling a story. And telling that story to a roomful of folks makes scaling that storytelling all the easier. That’s why pitch events are so attractive. So if you’re at a point where you’d like to share what you’re building in front of an audience — if only to get some practice telling the story — Demolicious may be the event for you.

The Spotify embed has been a bit — ahem — spotty. So here’s the link to the episode.

Struggling to figure out where to start on your startup idea? Strapped for time? Well, get ready to be happy. Because Mark Grimes is going to spend three hours helping you figure it out.

There are any number of impressive technology folks with ties to Oregon. But the person most definitely having their moment in the sun as part of the AI fueled technology world of today is Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia, an alum of Aloha High School and Oregon State University. The New Yorker recently featured Jensen in a piece that shares more about Jensen’s life, including building the chipmaker that is “powering the AI revolution.”

Since the embed seems to be failing off and on, here’s the direct link to the Upstart Collective podcast.

One of the largest and most popular pitch competitions on the West Coast is looking for its next cohort of participants. And this one is only for Black-founded or Black-led companies. That’s right. PitchBlack 2024 applications are now open.

Ever been listening to a podcast and been like, “I’d really like to give that podcaster a piece of my mind!”…? But you don’t want to take the time to type out a reply — or even figure out where to type that reply? Those were the humble beginnings of PodInbox, a service that provided a voicemail box for podcasters. But it’s become so much more than that. Which is why, it’s changing its name. To Fanlist.