Silicon Florist 🌹 Celebrating Black History Month, Interested in video games?, TFNW goes international

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Big stories
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CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH: 28 BLACK PORTLAND ENTREPRENEURS

First off, if you don’t follow Portland’s Stephen Green on Twitter, you’re missing out on a whole bunch of awesome information and insights and amazing founders. But his latest effort was one for the books. Throughout February, Stephen celebrated Black History Month by featuring a series of amazing black entrepreneurs in the Portland area. One for each day.

https://siliconflorist.com/2017/02/28/celebrating-black-history-month-28-black-portland-entrepreneurs-in-28-days/

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INTERESTED IN THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY IN OREGON?

Like many folks in Oregon, the video game community is creative, passionate, and, well, aggressively humble. But once a year, Oregon Games Organization takes the opportunity to make a little more noise than usual. To talk about what’s happening. And to celebrate some of the amazing folks in this community. It’s time for Game On.

https://siliconflorist.com/2017/03/01/interested-in-the-video-game-industry-in-oregon-game-on/

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TECHFESTNW ATTRACTS STARTUPS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

It wasn’t so long ago when Portland was hungry for a homegrown tech conference that celebrated and showcased the wide variety of technology and startups that call the Rose City home. Over the last few years, TechfestNW has grown from beyond its humble beginnings to be exactly that sort of conference. But they’re not stopping there.

https://siliconflorist.com/2017/03/01/portlands-techfestnw-attracts-startups-from-around-the-world-with-pitchfestnw/

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PORTLAND STARTUPS SLACK
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Your moment of meme
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Camera shutter speed synced to helicopter’s rotor
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This week in Portland startup history
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March 3, 2008: Silicon Florist gets some sprucing
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Events
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If you have time for any events next week, I'd suggest the following:

MONDAY (5:00PM) Portland Community Hour[s] at CENTRL Office Pearl
http://calagator.org/events/1250471532

TUESDAY (6:00PM) Beyond The UX Tipping Point w/ Jared Spool
http://calagator.org/events/1250471515

WEDNESDAY (1:30PM) PDXWIT #Action A Day Without A Woman - Hike
http://calagator.org/events/1250471520

More on http://calagator.org/

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Community
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ASK: Need help understanding and setting OKRs
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Join 4270 Portland startup types helping one another
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