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Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Locally, year to date, $585.1 million has been invested across 87 deals in the Portland area, which includes Southwest Washington. That compares to $365.2 million invested across 95 deals in the metro by the same time last year.
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Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Because that is what Portland does. It fights fear with absurdity. It meets authoritarianism with art. It takes propaganda and turns it into parody. It looks power dead in the eye and says, ‘look, if you’re gonna call us anarchists, we might as well give you a fucking show.’
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Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Students and teachers already use a variety of AI tools on a regular basis. It can quicken tasks and serve as a helpful study tool, but it can also be used to bully and harass peers.
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It’s been a quiet few weeks on the startup front. No doubt due to the other newscycle swirling around Portland as of late. But there’s still a bunch of startup activity in our midst. Like Portland startup Knapsack, which just announced that they had raised $10 million in their Series A bringing their total funding to $20.8 million.
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Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
We’re all realizing we can just do things – the reason we can just do things is because we’ve entered the standard gauge era. We’re building our company faster because we can build feeds across multiple platforms simultaneously, and Skylight is building their company faster because they get to focus on the parts that matter most, and lean on the things-doingness of the ATmosphere for the rest. It’s an exciting future, we’re looking forward to continuing to do things, together.
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Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Your cofounder relationship determines your startup’s success more than product-market fit. Most founders focus on operations while ignoring the psychological dynamics of partnerships. Build operational and personal trust, create explicit agreements about expectations, address emotional debt, and recognize that your partnership dynamics set your company’s culture. The most impactful work isn’t in your codebase—it’s in your cofounder relationship.
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Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
And the Portlanders? The real ones? They’re out there in inflatable dinosaur costumes, dancing. They’re sitting on the sidewalk in pajamas, eating pastries and sipping coffee. Just being there. Bearing witness. Reminding everyone that fascism, hate, and violence don’t belong here.
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