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title: 'Silicon Florist links arrangement for July 3, 2025'
date: '2025-07-03T09:54:41-07:00'
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# Silicon Florist links arrangement for July 3, 2025

Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:

[Gov. Tina Kotek orders Oregon schools to prohibit students from using cellphones • Oregon Capital Chronicle](https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/07/02/gov-tina-kotek-orders-oregon-schools-to-prohibit-students-from-using-cell-phones/?emci=acc7ecd8-8c57-f011-8f7c-6045bdfe8e9c&emdi=b2266dfd-1558-f011-8f7c-6045bdfe8e9c&ceid=435409)
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Gov. Tina Kotek on Wednesday issued an executive order to Oregon’s 197 school districts, requiring they adopt a policy for banning student cellphone use by Oct. 31, 2025. Those policies must be fully implemented by Jan. 1, 2026, the order reads.

[Podcasts on The Startup Community Movement – Feld Thoughts](https://feld.com/archives/2025/07/podcasts-on-the-startup-community-movement/)
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Seattle has grown and evolved in the 35 years since I’ve been coming here. It’s incredible to see (and have experienced) the evolution of the startup community here. I received a few questions about it at the public events yesterday, and was reflecting on a common theme that has been discussed on a few podcasts, which, if you’re interested in this topic, are worth listening to.

[Everything you need to know about Flashes, the Bluesky-based Instagram alternative | TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/everything-you-need-to-know-about-flashes-the-bluesky-based-instagram-alternative/)
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Flashes this year launched an Instagram alternative built on top of the Bluesky social network. Now available on the App Store, the app offers a different way to browse the visual posts on Bluesky. Instead of viewing them in a timeline-like feed, similar to X, the app draws inspiration from photo-based social networks, like Instagram.

[Craft beer sales fall for most top Oregon breweries – Axios Portland](https://www.axios.com/local/portland/2025/07/02/craft-beer-sales-decline-oregon-breweries-2024?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslocal_portland&stream=top)
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Six of the 10 biggest craft breweries in Oregon saw sales decline in 2024, many of them with double-digit drops from the previous year, per data from the Brewers Association.

[Buy The Blazers](https://www.buytheblazers.com/)
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Our group, “Buy The Blazers”, will invest in the purchase, either wholly or partially. Currently, we are forming the full group and seeking non-binding pledges of varying monetary levels.

More Portland startup news
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