Month: March 2024

Interested in hearing about the projects and companies that other folks are building in town? That’s why there’s Demolicious. It’s like “Show & Tell” but for startup and tech types. And there’s another installment of the monthly pitch event taking place Wednesday, March 20, 2024.

So many of our events in the startup community seem to take place in the evenings — or during happy hours. That’s why I always like to highlight events that take place at times that may be more accessible to folks with busy evening schedules. Like founder.coffee. The monthly coffee meetup designed to get founders chatting with other founders. Which is coming up next week.

In what has to be one of the biggest software company exits — especially for a homegrown company — in Portland, Jama Software, which had already been partially purchased by Private Equity today officially exited to Francisco Partners for $1.2 billion, a liquidity event that bought the stakes owned by Insight Partners, Madrona, and Oregon Venture Fund.

Twitter has had the ability to mute words and phrases, but given the current state of the platform, it may be hard to keep up. That’s why David Hayes built a Google Chrome extension that brings the power of AI to cleaning up your Twitter feed.

What if you took a Startup Weekend esque format and applied it to climate tech innovation…? That’s the idea behind VertueLab’s 45Camp Jumpstart Weekend, which was held — as the name would imply — last weekend.

Interested in getting your idea out of your head and into something more tangible? That’s the idea behind The Idea Camp. But if you want that help, you better get moving. Because applications to attend are due Friday, March 15, 2024.

I’ve written about BuzzCutt before. They’re the app that allows folks to find bars and venues with non-alcoholic options for folks who are sober or looking to better manage their alcohol intake. Now, they’re going to be appealing to a whole lot more folks, because they’ve added 35,000 new venues to the app.

You know the Web? That thing that has all of the stuff on it. That we all use a whole bunch. I mean, you’re soaking in it right now. And as of this week, the Web is now 35 years old.