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Tag: portland startup community

Spring cleaning: Contribute to the open source Portland startup community resource cheat sheet

Rick Turoczy on March 17, 2023

No single one of us is as smart as a bunch of us. That was my thinking when I originally threw together this cheat sheet on Github to help document resources in the Portland startup community. The idea was that it would make it easier for folks to understand what was happening in Portland, what organizations supported startup activity, and potentially serve as a way to finally capture and quantify the actual startup activity around these parts — that allowed everyone to contribute.

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Competing community coffee meetings: Coffee w/ Co-Founders and New to Portland Tech Meetup, tomorrow

Rick Turoczy on February 14, 2023

While it may seem like a negative, I always see competing events as a positive thing for the community. In very much a “the more, the merrier” kind of way. And it’s always nice to see folks choosing different times than “after work” for getting folks together. So you can only imagine my joy at noticing that we have two competing Portland startup community coffee break meetups on Wednesday.

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Looking to engage — or re-engage — with the Portland startup community? Here are a few tips and tricks, pandemic or no

Rick Turoczy on January 6, 2022

One of the most confusing things about the Portland startup community is how quiet it is. It’s not because there’s nothing happening. Far from it. And it’s not because people aren’t interested in including new and amazing people like you in their groups or meetups. Honestly, the quiet nature of the community comes from a very positive place: folks around here tend to be aggressively humble. They’re not ones to toot their own proverbial horns or be making a lot of noise about what they’re building.

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A revered startup meeting spot known for its upstart brews calls it quits: Goodbye, Bailey’s

Rick Turoczy on February 10, 2021

Every startup community has a few iconic meeting spots. Places where the community seems to naturally aggregate and gather. And where you’re more likely than not to see familiar faces or collections of coworkers from startups in the area. In Portland, we were lucky to have a few of these spots.

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Questions about the Portland startup community? Please join the next PIE AMA / Q&A and ask them

Rick Turoczy on May 4, 2020

So about a month ago, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with folks about their questions about the Portland startup community, finding cofounders, and the like. But we didn’t even scratch the surface of questions. So we’ve scheduled another session.

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Rekindling some of the Portland startup community magic: 1776 Challenge Cup Portland

Rick Turoczy on June 28, 2017

There was a time in the Portland startup community, not so long ago, when we had any number of interesting events that brought the whole community together. Granted, we were a much smaller community then. But those opportunities to gather were meaningful—even beyond the event itself—and formed the connective tissue that made our community, well, a community. Read More