Silicon Florist 🌹 Another Jama in the making? How to Portland Lunch 2.0, An epic Twitter thread
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January 18, 2019 / Issue 470
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Big stories
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REMINISCENT OF JAMA SOFTWARE
When I caught the news about Orchestra Software’s equity round, I was immediately reminded of Jama Software. Both companies were bootstrapped early on. They both took on investment after a number of years in business. And the amount of the funding was roughly the same amount.
https://siliconflorist.com/2019/01/15/reminiscent-of-jama-software-orchestra-software-bootstraps-for-a-decade-before-taking-14-million-investment/
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HOW TO PORTLAND LUNCH 2.0
While it used to be common knowledge around these parts, Portland Lunch 2.0 seems to have become a bit of an enigma. I can tell, because every time I start talking about it, folks are like “How do we even do a Portland Lunch 2.0?” Fair question. Let’s see if we can clear some of this up. For both attendees and hosts.
https://siliconflorist.com/2019/01/17/how-to-portland-lunch-2-0/
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EPIC TWITTER THREAD ON VENTURE CAPITAL, STARTUPS, AND ZEBRAS
Last Friday, the New York Times published a piece on the Zebra movement, a movement with Portland roots that highlights any number of things broken about the prevailing venture capital model and its pursuit of unicorns and calls for more rational and accessible means of funding startups.
https://siliconflorist.com/2019/01/14/an-epic-twitter-thread-on-venture-capital-startups-and-zebras/
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Events
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If you have time for any events next week, I'd suggest the following:
MONDAY (All day) MLK DAY
TUESDAY (5:30PM) Indie.vc v 3.0 - Winter Tour 2019
http://calagator.org/events/1250474735
WEDNESDAY (7:00PM) FailPDX - Fail Talks
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More events on http://calagator.org
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