Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Understanding the Oregon Legislature: How laws get passed — and how to participate • Oregon Capital Chronicle
This year, Oregon’s mostly-Democratic legislature is expected to craft bills addressing the federal government’s immigration crackdown and Oregon’s cost of living, as well as a gap in the state’s budget caused by a new tax and spending law President Donald Trump signed in July. How does that process work? Let’s start with the basics.
Oregon theater marquee joked about ‘Melania’ movie, and manager says Amazon pulled the film – GeekWire
The manager of the Lake Theater & Cafe in Lake Oswego, Ore., just outside of Portland, said a marquee he put up for the theater’s screening of the film about First Lady Melania Trump managed to upset Amazon enough that the company pulled the film.
Most People Can’t Vibe Code. Here’s How We Fix That.
We’re in the Unix era of AI agents. The raw capabilities are incredible – but they’re buried under terminal commands, API keys, and YAML configs. Enter the product layer.
Stop, Collaborate and Listen — Chris Neumann
[T]here are moments in time when it’s important to stop and pay attention to what’s happening around you.
Google Is A $4T Company That’s Still In The Startup Game
But Google has never been one to take its lead as a given. Over the years, the company and its venture arm has been among the tech industry’s most active startup investors and highest spending acquirers, Crunchbase data shows.
Patient Capital Will Eat the World
99% of venture capitalists managing other people’s money under 10-year fund structures with neat deployment periods, neat LPAs, and neat harvest periods don’t have this luxury. They must invest. They must be busy. They must deploy. This, self-evidently, is a doom loop.
VC-Backed Startups are Low Status – by Michael Dempsey
It is about a world in which starting a venture-backed company has become the thing you do when you’re ambitious and want to be perceived as smart, in the same way that going into banking used to be the thing you did when you were ambitious and wanted to be perceived as successful. When a path becomes the default, it no longer says something meaningful about you, but instead starts being an optimization problem. And optimization problems are increasingly not that interesting.
Three Lenses on Coordination | Async Stream
If you work on systems, you’ve almost certainly felt that some of these invariants seem to maintain themselves, while others require careful design and constant vigilance. They look similar on the surface, but behave very differently in practice.
Trail Blazers’ future in Portland less clear than ever as arena efforts meet resistance | Bill Oram – oregonlive.com
According to a source with direct knowledge of the proposed package, the state would need to approve $360 million in bonds backed by the income tax of athletes and performers at Moda Center while the city and county would effectively split the remaining $240 million.
The Minneapolis tech community holds strong during ‘tense and difficult time’ | TechCrunch
Eight Minneapolis-based founders and investors told TechCrunch that they have put much of their work on hold and now spend their days focused on their communities, volunteering at churches, and helping buy food. It’s part of a grassroots effort, across race and class, that is seeing people speak out, donate money, protest, and offer emotional support to one another.
Rent a Human
ai can’t touch grass. you can. get paid when agents need someone in the real world.
How to build the perfect investor list
For most founders, fundraising is a long journey. A solid investor list helps you map out your funding options and design the optimal access path for every investor.
Data Engineering Happy Hour Portland | Meetup
With many of us working remotely, it can be hard to find spaces to network with peers and like-minded professionals in the data space. Whether you’re a seasoned data engineer or just starting out, we hope this event offers a chance to relax and connect with others in the data community.
How startups differentiate when everything sounds like AI | EU-Startups
Founders need to return to fundamentals. Clearly communicate the problems you are solving for users. Whether it is building investment decks or automating tax credit applications, what matters is the capability, not the fact that AI is involved. Focus on this question: why can’t someone else, armed with the same OpenAI API, do what you do?
Dayo Deals helps parents pay kids to use less social media – Portland Business Journal
Portland startup Dayo, which aims to help people cut back on social media use, launched a new feature designed to help parents and teens negotiate reducing screen time.
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