Month: December 2024

If you’re the type of parent who is overly competitive wants to give your kid the greatest chance to succeed during the annual Oregon Battle of the Books — or OBOB as it’s affectionately known — and your standard Q&A sessions could use a little more pep, you might consider trying out OBOB Dog, an app designed to help kids practice their responses.

[Editor: I’m so happy to have the opportunity to share this amazing example of giving back on Giving Tuesday.] What if an award-winning, Portland-based creative agency — with a global client roster of companies like Google, Nike, Oura, and Uber, among others — found a way to get their employees more engaged in the Portland startup community by directly supporting startup founders…? Better yet, what if that support was completely free of charge…? (Because as every long-time Portlander knows, “Free is a very good price.”) That’s exactly the question that Instrument asked themselves. The answer…? Build Week.