Lots of chatter during this year’s Oregon Innovation Showcase. Lots of it definitely fall in the category of “tough love.” I don’t want to steal any of the thunder from Malia Spencer at the Portland Business Journal, who provides a lengthy dive into the voices at the event. But I did want to tease it a bit, with some insights from Diane Fraiman of Voyager Capital.
Diane moderated the investor panel at the Showcase. (She also serves on the Oregon Governor’s Prosperity Council.) Her take…?
“We have a fragmented ecosystem that we need to bring together to try and figure out how to put the mentors, the money, the talent, the strategic partners all into one place or a few places that basically grow that. We’ve done it. Like, this is not something that we have not done before. … I know we can do it but we got to stop with all these little pieces being broken and we got to start to fight to fix the things on the policy infrastructure that are in our way.”
For more, read “How Oregon’s fragmented tech strategy is holding back startups.”
