Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Oregon business leaders react to Prosperity Council report – Portland Business Journal
To see how the recommendations landed with businesses, we connected with leaders of four small-to-medium-size companies for their perspectives. We asked them to share the obstacles they’ve faced to growing their companies in Oregon and which Prosperity Council recommendations would be most helpful.
International Business Growth: Export Credit Conference
Join Business Oregon at the International Business Growth: Export Credit Conference to learn how export credit tools and financing solutions can help businesses expand internationally, reduce risk, and unlock new opportunities for growth.
Seattle Sounders FC pay tribute to S. ‘Soma’ Somasegar, beloved tech leader and team owner – GeekWire
Before the match at Lumen Field, the club paid tribute to S. “Soma” Somasegar, the longtime Microsoft executive, Madrona venture capitalist and Sounders minority owner who died in May at age 59. Fans stood in silence as Somasegar’s image appeared on the stadium video boards.
Federal funding changes will harm innovation ecosystem
Startups and others in the innovation ecosystem that benefit from federal research funding and broadband programs could be harmed by proposed changes that will increase uncertainty around and the politicization of federal grants and programs. This week, Engine submitted comments to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) opposing a proposed rule that would reshape how more than 30 federal agencies administer grants and cooperative agreements. For startups, the proposal could make already difficult funding programs harder to navigate while weakening the research, connectivity, and commercialization efforts that support the country’s innovation ecosystem.
How Anthropic runs large-scale code migrations with Claude Code | Claude by Anthropic
In the last month, individual developers at Anthropic migrated 10 code packages consisting of tens to hundreds of thousands of lines of code using Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 4.8, and dynamic workflows. In this article we’ll cover two examples along with best practices from these projects.
The Word That Kills Startups Is “Interesting”
Most founders solve the product and then quietly stall on go-to-market, convinced they need to do a hundred things at once. Rob’s whole argument is that you don’t. You need to find the people who already have a project, already have pull, and stop trying to manufacture it in everyone else.
Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: “Fork it. Or just walk away.” – Ars Technica
Writing in a lengthy post on the Linux kernel mailing list this week, Torvalds said that “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away.”
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