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April 7, 2017 / Issue 377
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Big stories
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AN OPEN SOURCE GUIDE TO BUILDING THE STARTUP ACCELERATOR OF YOUR DREAMS

It’s been one year since the completion of the PIE Cookbook Kickstarter campaign, so it seemed only fitting that we let you know that we’ve reached the PIE Cookbook 0.9 beta release! That’s right! All of the content in one spot. With a table of contents, even.

https://medium.com/portland-incubator-experiment/an-open-source-guide-for-building-the-startup-accelerator-of-your-dreams-8ff931d8c3a

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EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: UPCOMING.ORG

In the early days of this blog—way way back in 2007—when we wanted to find an event or figure out what was happening, there was one place we all went: Upcoming.org. Back then, in Portland BC (Before Calagator), the site provided a unique way of figuring who was going where and what might be an interesting event. Unfortunately, Upcoming had been acquired by Yahoo! And, like many things that Yahoo! has acquired, Upcoming died.

https://siliconflorist.com/2017/04/03/everything-old-is-new-again-upcoming-org-is-officially-back/

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FINE RELEASES HOMEGROWN OPEN SOURCE CMS

Like Ruby? What about open source? Oh. Cool. By any chance, might you be looking for a new content management system? Well, boy howdy. I’m thinking you might like what FINE—a digital agency with a presence in Portland and San Francisco—has just cooked up. Meet Fae.

https://siliconflorist.com/2017/04/06/content-on-rails-fine-releases-new-homegrown-cms/

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PORTLAND STARTUPS SLACK
Come hang out with more than 2800 of your startup peers
https://pdx-startups-slack.herokuapp.com/

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Your moment of meme
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Only 18 million retweets and you too could have free Wendy’s chicken nuggets for a year
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This week in Portland startup history
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April 3, 2008: Silicon Florist internship challenge
https://siliconflorist.com/2008/04/03/silicon-florist-internship-challenge/

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

MONDAY (5:30PM) FutureTalk with Gene Kim
http://calagator.org/events/1250471767

MONDAY (7:00PM) Portland HoloLens Meetup
http://calagator.org/events/1250471545

THURSDAY (4:00PM) Nike Tech Talks
http://calagator.org/events/1250471756

MONDAY (6:00PM) Business for a Better Portland: Addressing the housing crisis
http://calagator.org/events/1250471753

More on http://calagator.org/

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Community
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ASK: Oregon Self Employment Assistance Program advice needed
https://pdxstartups.switchboardhq.com/posts/27370

OFFER: Will offers advice about full-stack JavaScript development
https://pdxstartups.switchboardhq.com/posts/27545

Join 4340 Portland startup types helping one another
https://pdxstartups.switchboardhq.com
http://twitter.com/pdx_startups

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Jobs
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