Silicon Florist 🌹 New GeekWire journo is from PDX, Looking to sponsor more tech events?

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Big stories
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LOOKING TO SPONSOR MAJOR PORTLAND TECH EVENTS?

With all of the tech events that tend to take place in Portland each year, it can be difficult for sponsors to find the right events for their companies or organizations to support. And even when you identify the right events, chasing down all of the respective details for actually sponsoring them can be more work than it should be.

https://siliconflorist.com/2017/04/18/looking-to-sponsor-major-portland-tech-events-youll-want-to-look-at-the-portland-prospectus/

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TOM KRAZIT JOINS GEEKWIRE TEAM

It’s always good to see northwest tech and startup publications getting better and better. And that’s why it was great to hear that my friends up north at GeekWire had managed to bring Portland based tech journalist Tom Krazit onto their team.

https://siliconflorist.com/2017/04/20/portland-tech-journalist-tom-krazit-joins-geekwire-team/

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PORTLAND STARTUPS SLACK
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Your moment of meme
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Starbucks’s Unicorn Frappuccino
http://www.vogue.com/article/unicorn-frappuccino-internet-outrage

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This week in Portland startup history
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April 16, 2008: Portland Start-up Index for April 2008: COLOURlovers debuts at #4
https://siliconflorist.com/2008/04/16/portland-start-up-index-for-april-2008-colourlovers-debuts-at-4/

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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/1250471677

THURSDAY (4:00PM) Launch Party — We The People Are Powerful! A Guide For Portland Activists
http://calagator.org/events/1250471812

FRIDAY (4:00PM) Design Week Portland Open House
http://calagator.org/events/1250471779

More on http://calagator.org/

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Community
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ASK: Proofreader Needed
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OFFER: Latino Festival in Downtown Hillsboro, 4/23!
https://pdxstartups.switchboardhq.com/posts/27868

Join 4250 Portland startup types helping one another
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http://twitter.com/pdx_startups

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