Silicon Florist 🌹 Skyward acquired by Verizon, Kiva acquired, Shiny new job board

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February 17, 2017 / Issue 370
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Big stories
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WHY VERIZON’S ACQUISITION OF SKYWARD BODES WELL FOR ALL PORTLAND STARTUPS

Sure, sure. Everyone is talking about the Verizon acquisition of Yahoo! But honestly? I’m more interested in an acquisition that may fly below the RADAR. (Buh dum buh… tiss!) You see, Verizon just made an acquisition that both bodes well for Portland—and for our future in the drone industry. Verizon has acquired Portland startup Skyward.

http://siliconflorist.com/2017/02/16/flying-high-portland-startup-skyward-acquired-verizon-simplify-drone-ops/

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ANOTHER PORTLAND COMPANY ACQUIRED

So this is interesting. For all the positives of the Skyward acquisition today, it still had one issue that has been consistently part of our “liquidity event” stories: it was a solitary event. Portland doesn’t have multiple exits happening in rapid succession. We don’t get the opportunity to build momentum. Or at least we didn’t… but it may be starting. Because Portland based Kavi announced their acquisition by Higher Logic today, too.

http://siliconflorist.com/2017/02/16/portland-company-acquired-higher-logic-scoops-kavi/

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SHINY NEW STARTUPS DESERVE A SHINY NEW JOB BOARD

Today is a busy day for florists—like so busy that they often need additional help. So it seemed rather apropos to make it the day that this here Florist did a better job of helping you find the help you need. With a brand new Silicon Florist job board.

http://siliconflorist.com/2017/02/14/shiny-startup-jobs-deserve-shiny-job-board-discount-code/

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PORTLAND STARTUPS SLACK
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Your moment of meme
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Tiny Trump
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This week in Portland startup history
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February 12, 2008: Is Portland behind when it comes to mobile?
http://siliconflorist.com/2008/02/12/guest-editorial-is-portland-behind-when-it-comes-to-mobile/

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Events
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If you have time for any events next week, I'd suggest the following:

TUESDAY (4:30PM) PDX Women in Tech (PDXWIT) Happy Hour Networking Event
http://calagator.org/events/1250471426

TUESDAY (4:30PM) Nike Tech Talks
http://calagator.org/events/1250471488

THURSDAY (7:00PM) CTRL-H - PDX Hackerspace - CTRL-H Open House
http://calagator.org/events/1250471485

More on http://calagator.org/

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Community
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ASK: Small electronics expert to speak at Lincoln High School class
https://pdxstartups.switchboardhq.com/posts/26290

OFFER: PDXAUX Accessibility & technology: demo and discussion with vision-impaired users
https://pdxstartups.switchboardhq.com/posts/26195

Join 4240 Portland startup types helping one another
https://pdxstartups.switchboardhq.com
http://twitter.com/pdx_startups

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Jobs
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