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Silicon Florist links arrangement for February 25, 2022 💐

Rick Turoczy on February 25, 2022

The preeminent pitch platform for Oregon’s Black entrepreneurs returns

For the first time since 2019, Black entrepreneurs in Portland pitched their businesses to hundreds of possible investors and customers, and competed for $100,000 in cash prizes.

Category: Links, Oregon, Portland, Startups
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Silicon Florist links arrangement for February 24, 2022 💐

Rick Turoczy on February 24, 2022

Six Pitching Mistakes We’re Sick of Seeing

I love watching startups pitch, probably because I love pitching. To me, seeing someone articulate their vision and product is nothing short of inspiring. But having been a judge for various university competitions like Hult Prize’s Accelerator and University College London amongst others, I have to share some of the biggest pet peeves I have seen from the judging table.

Category: Oregon, Portland, Startups
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Silicon Florist links arrangement for February 23, 2022 💐

Rick Turoczy on February 23, 2022

Five Years Ago, I Set Out To Prove A VC Firm Could Invest With A Diversity Thesis. Here’s Where We Are Today.

In 2017, I started compiling a list of Black and Latino founders who had raised $1 million of VC funding as there wasn’t any aggregated list online. I simply wanted to know who the top diverse founders were as they were the founders I, as a venture investor, wanted to serve. So I started pooling data from all over the internet.

Category: Links, Oregon, Portland, Startups
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