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Silicon Florist
14h ago
I tend to be a “While that seems like a negative, it’s actually a positive…” kind of person. So where one might see a night jam packed with event choices and bemoan the scheduling conflicts, I tend to say that having a bunch of competing events from which to choose means that the community is starting to get some momentum going again. So when I glanced at Thursday, it made me extremely happy.
This Thursday, April 18, 2024, you have the a bunch of events from which to choose:
Herding the Cats with Service Blueprinting (5:30pm) – In any human experience-centered program, bringing vision to opti ..read more
Silicon Florist
22h ago
Neither did I. But given that I grew up south of Craters of the Moon — where astronauts used to train for lunar missions — what might seem like a ChatGPT hallucination to you makes perfect sense to me ..read more
Silicon Florist
2d ago
I know I covered the Radious new last week, but I’m always excited when our friends at GeekWire share stories about the Portland startup community. So I’m mentioning it again. ICYMI Portland startup Radious has gone nationwide.
GeekWire shared more about the curation service that precipitated this expansion:
The curation service was piloted under the radar for about eight months. Radious works with companies to understand their needs for a team offsite or other in-person work, including location, technical requirements, number of people, number of days, etc., and then locates an ideal space f ..read more
Silicon Florist
2d ago
Born in Columbia, Mariana Ferreira found herself accidentally falling into entrepreneurship during her days in college in which she learned more through failure than success. Today, leading a CPG company focused on healthy eating through a device that consumers can put on their kitchen counter to grow microgreens, Mariana is leaning in on her learnings to give back to the founder community ..read more
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5d ago
Silicon Florist
6d ago
Speaking of coworking, there’s another opportunity to cowork with your fellow startup founders on Tax Day, April 15, 2024. UpStart Collective will be opening both locations to free coworking with non-services-based businesses. So startups. And you’re invited.
Welcome to the UpStart Collective open co-working day! The next open co-working day is happening on April 15th from 9am – 5pm. You will have the option of working out of the eastside or the newly launched westside location. Please be sure to select which location you would like to work out of. We’re excited to meet you!
For more informa ..read more
Silicon Florist
6d ago
I know, I know. It comes as quite a shock. After living in a region where the venture capital flowed so effortlessly for so many years… Oh wait. Sorry. I was looking at the wrong thing. VC investments are down in the Portland area. Way down. Not that they were ever up to a crazy level. But they’ve been better.
But it’s not a cash on hand situation. It may be more of a dearth of viable investments situation, as Diane Fraiman of Voyager Capital shared with the Portland Business Journal:
“There are monies available up and down the venture funnel in Portland but there is a reduction in the number ..read more
Silicon Florist
6d ago
As a startup, few things are as important — or as challenging — as figuring out Product Market Fit. That’s why I’m so thankful that First Round Capital took the time to create this free course to help you figure all of that PMF stuff out.
Introducing PMF Method, a free 14-week intensive experience designed to help exceptional B2B founders build epic companies. Uncover what customers really need, build the right V1 product, and close your first commercial contracts.
Now you have two challenges: 1) Getting in, and 2) Figuring out a way to spend 14-weeks in the Bay Area to take advan ..read more
Silicon Florist
1w ago
Remember Radious…? They’re the Portland startup that provides on demand workspace for folks — by activating homes for the workday the same way Airbnb does for the… um… sleepytime? Anyway… last time I checked in with them, they were excited to be expanding to the Bay Area. So you can only imagine their excitement now. Radious is going nationwide.
With this new service, companies can find the right property for their off-sites, team meetings,
social workdays and more anywhere across the country. While Radious has active marketplace
listings in San Francisco, CA, Portland, OR and Milwaukee, WI ..read more