While the Portland startup community can be an incredibly welcoming and collaborative place, trying to figure out where to start is often more challenging that it should be. That’s why I thought it would be valuable to host a community get together where we could talk through available resources, organizations, and events — if only to help folks start off 2024 on the right foot.
When you watch the event, you’ll see that we covered a ton of content. I promised to link to all of it. So here are some of the things I shared. I’ll try to go back through chat and grab the other links that we shared, as well.
Save the date(s)
- Jan 05 – First Friday at Upstart Collective
- Jan 10 – OEN PubTalk
- Jan 11 – AI Portland
- Jan 16 – OEN Pitch, please
- Jan 16 – PDXWIT Happy Hour
- Jan 17 – Demolicious
- Jan 18 – Soulful Sips
- Jan 20 – Silicon Forest Tech Summit
- Jan 23 – founder.coffee
- Jan 31 – Da Gathering
- Feb 01 – OEN Mixer
- Feb 02 – First Friday at Upstart Collective
- Feb 02 – Portland Winter Light Festival
- Feb 07 – PitchBlack
Further out
- Mar 14 – Pi Day
- May 06 – Oregon Tech Awards
- Jun 20 – Monitorama
- Sep 17 – WordCamp US
- Nov 07 – OEN Awards
Monthly-ish gatherings
- AI Portland
- Bootstrap Startup
- Da Gathering
- Demolicious
- First Fridays at Upstart Collective
- founder.coffee
- Hardware Happy Hour Portland
- Mentorship Saturdays
- OEN Pitch Practice
- OEN PubTalks
- Soulful Sips
- TiE PitchClub
- #social_beer
Upcoming annual events
- Spring
- Angel Oregon Bio
- Oregon Angel Food
- Angel Oregon Tech
- Summer
- Party in the Pinot
- Fall
- Pitch Latino
- Built Festival
- Bend Venture Conference
Startup community organizers
- Built Oregon
- Business for a Better Portland
- Climate Curious
- Community Copack
- Latino Founder
- Oregon Bioscience Incubator
- Oregon Entrepreneurs Network (OEN)
- PDXWIT
- PIE
- PREGAME
- Prosper Portland Inclusive Business Resource Network
- Startups for All
- Technology Association of Oregon (TAO)
- TiE Oregon
- Upstart Collective
- VertueLab
- Xcelerate
- Zebras Unite
Online resources
- Calagator
- Pacific Northwest Packaged Food & Beverage discussion list
- Portland Startups Slack
- Portland Startups Switchboard
- Meetup groups
News
- Portland Business Journal
- Portland Inno
- Silicon Florist
- The Silicon Forest newsletter
- Techstars Startup Digest Portland
Happy Holidays! And wishing you a happy and prosperous 2024.
