Month: April 2024

(h/t Mitch Daugherty)

I know, I know. It comes as quite a shock. After living in a region where the venture capital flowed so effortlessly for so many years… Oh wait. Sorry. I was looking at the wrong thing. VC investments are down in the Portland area. Way down. Not that they were ever up to a crazy level. But they’ve been better.

Speaking of coworking, there’s another opportunity to cowork with your fellow startup founders on Tax Day, April 15, 2024. UpStart Collective will be opening both locations to free coworking with non-services-based businesses. So startups. And you’re invited.

There are a few things waterfront-ish sort of things that are just kind of considered general knowledge around Portland. You know things like the White-Satin-White-Stag-Made-in-Oregon-Portland-Oregon-sign stag turns into Rudolph every year. That Tom McCall Waterfront Park could have very well been a freeway. And Naito Parkway is home to the world’s smallest park, Mill Ends Park. But what you may not know is that Mill Ends Park now has a homepage on the Web. And it’s as dinky as the park itself, 3×3 pixels. Which earned the site a nomination for the Webbys this year. So you should vote for it.

Remember Radious…? They’re the Portland startup that provides on demand workspace for folks — by activating homes for the workday the same way Airbnb does for the… um… sleepytime? Anyway… last time I checked in with them, they were excited to be expanding to the Bay Area. So you can only imagine their excitement now. Radious is going nationwide.

There’s not shortage of “startup founder advice” out there. But there’s something about an extensive document of lessons learned over 20 years. Especially when it’s unpolished and unassuming like this Startup Founder Survival Guide composed by David Politis.