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title: 'Feeling nostalgic about Portland startups…? What about exceedingly long headlines that add relatively little to the discourse…? I know, right…? Who ain’t…? That’s why I’m sharing a Portland startup community history morsel on Portland Startups Slack. Every. Single. Day.'
date: '2026-03-31T16:15:16-07:00'
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# Feeling nostalgic about Portland startups…? What about exceedingly long headlines that add relatively little to the discourse…? I know, right…? Who ain’t…? That’s why I’m sharing a Portland startup community history morsel on Portland Startups Slack. Every. Single. Day.

You know what’s fun about blogging about the same community for nearly two decades? You’ve got receipts. A lot of them. Like more than 6,000 posts worth of receipts. So I’ve started doing something with all of those receipts. Every day — or at least most days — I’m posting a “On this Day in Portland Startup History” on the [Portland Startups Slack](https://pdx-startups-slack.herokuapp.com/).

It’s exactly what it sounds like. I dig through the Silicon Florist archive every single day. I find something interesting that happened on a specific date. And share it with the community. FOR NOSTALGIA.

Maybe it’s a funding round from 2012. Maybe it’s a company launch from 2009 that — knowing what we know now — hits different. Maybe it’s a new startup that just launched last year. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s just a consistent reminder that — despite all of the AI stuff you cool kids are doing these days — Portland has been doing this startup thing for a long time.

With varying degrees of success. But still.

If you’re not already on Portland Startups Slack, it’s free. [Come hang out with me and nearly 8000 of your soon to be closest startup friends](https://pdx-startups-slack.herokuapp.com/).

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