Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
We reached $1M ARR with zero funding – ProjectionLab
Want to know what building in public from zero to a million dollars a year really felt like? NOT like serenely progressing up-and-to-the-right…
Opinion: Growth is a public good. Oregon needs to do a better job encouraging it – oregonlive.com
Oregon’s ability to fund essential public services is increasingly vulnerable as the private sector faces mounting strain.
Frame of preference – Aresluna
Join me on a journey through the first twenty years of Mac’s control panels.
‘Things aren’t good’: Prominent Portland businessman says Intel layoffs will impact all of Oregon
“We have one new tenant moving into an industrial project in Sherwood called Olympus Controls. They make automated equipment for Intel. I don’t know whether this layoff affects them directly. But these things aren’t good. We need to realize that those 529 people being let go… They have kids in school. They go to movies. They buy groceries. They go to recreation places. We can’t afford to lose one single job in this state,” Schnitzer said.
North America Venture Funding Surged In First Half Of Year As Q2 Held Strong
Overall, investors poured $145 billion into seed through growth-stage rounds for U.S. and Canadian companies in the first six months of the year, per Crunchbase data. That’s a 43% gain year over year, and the highest half-year total in three years.
Oregon has a massive new wave energy testing facility. But who is going to use it? – OPB
After more than a decade of planning, permitting, community outreach, drilling, cable-laying and construction, Oregon is now home to the largest-capacity wave energy testing facility in the world.
Mountain Biking with Tech Professionals: Pinedrops to Lower Whoops Loop, Wed, Jul 16, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup
Let’s make the most of this time by connecting on a mountain bike trail. This event is open to anyone who wants to engage with Bend’s tech community. From old friends to people new to town, all are welcome. Even better, bring a friend. There’s no agenda other than getting to know each other.
Intel will lay off 529 Oregon workers in initial cuts: Here are the positions being eliminated – oregonlive.com
The chipmaker will cut jobs at all its major Oregon campuses and across various business units. Engineers comprise nearly 300 of the Oregon workers losing their jobs in this round of layoffs, according to Intel’s filing.
Startups ≠ Small Businesses: A Policy Blueprint for Texas to Unlock High-Growth Capital –
If you think this is harmless semantics, take a look at TexCap Policy Institute’s 89th Legislative Report: in a session that passed over 1,200 bills, not one established a statewide definition of a “startup.” Innovation was thrown in with “government efficiency,” “blockchain pilot programs,” and vague “JETI” incentives, none of which directly address startup capital formation or commercialization.
What’s Going on with Early-Stage Founders? — Chris Neumann
Ultimately, LP investment dollars follow returns. And returns come from the ability of VCs to successfully invest in the best founders and companies. So while it’s interesting to talk about the bifurcation of venture capital in terms of LP dollars raised, this is actually a lagging indicator of a behavioral shift on the part of founders.
How I build software quickly
This post focuses on being a developer on a small team, maintaining software over multiple years. It doesn’t focus on creating quick prototypes. And this is only based on my own experience!
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