Silicon Florist 🌹 $25M raise, Chainstarter, OEN Awards 🏆

Issue 612

Oct 09, 2021

Finalists announced for the OEN Entrepreneurship Awards 2021

Every year for the past 29 years, Oregon Entrepreneurs Network has worked to recognize the entrepreneurs building amazing companies in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Their 30th year is no different. I mean, except that there’s a 30 years of OEN Awards retrospective… More

Strategic partnership and $25M accelerate Brave Care expansion plans

It wasn’t that long ago that Brave Care was a single clinic in Portland and a scrappy crew of startup types working to reinvent urgent pediatric. Fast forward to today and they’ve got a new infusion of $25 million and a strategic partnership with Pediatrix that promises to take the concept national more efficiently… More

Portland startup Chainstarters launches

Part of my morning “reading the paper” routine involves swinging by Product Hunt — founded by Ryan Hoover who grew up in Eugene — on a daily basis to see if anything interesting jumps out at me. And this morning, something definitely did. Because Portland startup Chainstarters was sitting at the top of the list of products for today… More

Rick Turoczy @turoczy

As I talk to more community folks who have burnt out after a decade of doing the work, I'm wondering if a more time constrained approach to the work might be beneficial. Like term limits. Or school. I wrote about a similar construct for employees years ago

morethanaliving.comYou’re hired, you’re firedAnyone who talks to me about their current corporate career will likely have heard me utter—likely innumerable times—my quintessential thought about staying in one place too long, &#822…

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Events 🗓️

I know that you’re busy. Here are events that are worthy of your consideration, this week.

Tuesday (5:00PM) PDXWIT Happy Hour Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month
Wednesday (All day) BITCON 2021
Friday (12:30PM) Built Festival 2021

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