Oregon startup news for the week ending Oct 3, 2025
Silicon Florist links arrangement for October 3, 2025
Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Startup Location Strategy in 2025: Does It Still Matter Where You Build?
Business location once defined your entire brand. A company based in SoHo or Palo Alto was perceived differently than one in Boise or Bratislava. But perception has shifted. Customers care more about product quality and support than your HQ. And investors now hunt for deals in unexpected places, especially if the burn rate is lower and the talent pool untapped.
Read MoreMicroConf is coming to Portland in 2026
If you’re a solo founder working on a SaaS product, you’ve like encountered MicroConf in some form or another. Because you are their target market. And in a place like Portland, there are a lot of folks just like you trying to figure out how to take their bootstrapped SaaS product to the next level. So it only makes sense that MicroConf US is heading here in 2026.
Read MoreInterested in AI…? You’ll want to check out the new Northwest AI Summit 2025
There are any number of awesome AI events that happen in evenings and mornings, month to month. But what about deeper dives? Day long events that explore AI and the industry? Well, now there the Northwest AI Summit, “a day full of cutting-edge AI discussions and networking.”
Read MoreSilicon Florist links arrangement for October 2, 2025
Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
A Research Thinking Toolkit to Speed Up the Discovery Phase
UX research expert Jeanette Mellinger shares a toolkit for deeper discovery of your customers, your team and yourself.
Read More15 Oregon startups trending on the GeekWire 200
If you’re not familiar with GeekWire, you should be. It’s the best source of tech and startup news in the Pacific Northwest. And, from time to time, they provide a fair amount of coverage on what’s happening in Oregon as part of that. Always well worth the read. Especially with a bunch of Oregon companies trending in the Top 10 of the GeekWire 200.
Read MoreWe have liftoff: North Bank Innovations Incubator launches
Remember a few weeks back when we were talking about coworking and I mentioned that there was a new coworking space and incubator launching in Vancouver, Washington…? Well, whether you do or not, a new startup incubator has, in fact, launched in Vancouver, Washington.
Read MoreSilicon Florist links arrangement for October 1, 2025
Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Fast-growing startups reshape the GeekWire 200 with innovations in AI, robotics, energy and more – GeekWire
There’s a lot of startup activity in Seattle and the broader Pacific Northwest. Some companies are growing rapidly amid the AI boom, while others are cutting costs and navigating challenges.
Read MorePortland, Oregon, is not burning down. Here’s a glimpse of what’s actually happening.
Oy. It’s impossible to escape the newscycles around Portland, Oregon, right now. And it’s stupid that I even feel compelled to write this post. And yet… if you live here like I do, it’s a lot. Even if you’re trying to ignore it, you’re likely fielding questions from friends and family. It feels very much like 2020, all over again. (And it’s likely actually because of archived footage of 2020, to be honest.) So if you need some stuff to share with folks to highlight what is actually is actually happening in the Rose City, I wanted to give you a few resources.
Read MoreSilicon Florist links arrangement for September 30, 2025
Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
How the AI Bubble Ate Y Combinator
While overlap is usually inevitable in accelerator programs, never in its 20-year history have so many YC startups been singularly devoted to one core area of tech. Going through YC’s startup directory reveals that of the 170 startups in the most recent summer batch, 154 are AI startups.
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