Sometimes, it’s just easier for me to blather on about something I’ve read than write about something I’ve read. But every so often, it’s important to do both. So I wanted to make sure that you had access to a recent Medium post from Josh Carter that describes — 20 min read time in depth — his assessment of Portland’s startup problems. And where we could be doing better.
Want the highlights…? Cool. I recorded that for you.
For Josh’s entire post, here’s some context:
This piece is an attempt to lay out where the gaps actually are, using the data that exists, and to argue for a specific discipline that Oregon’s ecosystem has mostly avoided: defining what success looks like before funding another program to chase it. I’ve been writing about pieces of this argument for a while, as a founder, a fund manager, and someone who’s spent over a decade inside Portland’s startup community since relocating here in 2013, and this piece pulls those threads together with the current data behind them.
For more, read “Portland Doesn’t Have a Startup Activity Problem. It Has a Measure Outcomes Problem.”
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