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title: 'Chatting with the Portland Business Journal about the Portland startup community'
date: '2025-02-04T16:12:14-08:00'
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# Chatting with the Portland Business Journal about the Portland startup community

Every once in a while, I get to sit on the other side of the desk and talk to actual journalists about things and stuff. Like recently, when I had the opportunity to spend some time chatting with Suzanne Stevens, the editor of the Portland Business Journal. I can tell she’s an actual journalist because she managed to somehow [distill my rambling observations on Portland and the startup community into something intelligible. And digestible](https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/inno/stories/news/2025/02/04/portland-rick-turoczy-pie-silicon-florist.html).

To wit:

> As we wrapped our conversation, I asked Turoczy for his outlook on 2025, especially coming off of such a successful event.
> 
> “I sincerely thought the community would start coming back in 2023, and it just didn’t. And then in 2024, we started to see some signs of life but it didn’t come back in full force,” he said. “But there’s some really good momentum now. I was at the Silicon Forest Tech Summit (on Jan. 25), and I think they said 900 people RSVP’d. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this is the year that Portland comes back in a big way.”

To read the entire piece, visit “[Editor’s notebook: 2025 may be the year ‘Portland comes back in a big way’](https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/inno/stories/news/2025/02/04/portland-rick-turoczy-pie-silicon-florist.html).”

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