Silicon Florist 🌹 A Stellar start, Community codex, #pdxtst ⛈️
Issue 625
Tips and tricks for engaging with the Portland startup community
One of the most confusing things about the Portland startup community is how quiet it is. It’s not because there’s nothing happening. Far from it. And it’s not because people aren’t interested in including new and amazing people like you in their groups or meetups. Honestly, the quiet nature of the community comes from a very positive place: folks around here tend to be aggressively humble. They’re not ones to toot their own proverbial horns or be making a lot of noise about what they’re building… More
Portland startups set sail in Maritime Blue Innovation Accelerator
New year, new accelerator programs. And to kick things off, three Portland area startups have been selected to participate in the Washington Maritime Blue Innovation Accelerator, a nonprofit startup accelerator program focused on driving inclusive innovation in the “blue economy”… More
Out of an acquisition a Stellar new Portland startup appears
Not many folks realized it but Goldstar, a live events ticketing platform, had a fairly significant Portland presences with nearly 40 local folks working at the company prior to the pandemic. Today, Goldstar announced they were being acquired by TodayTix Group. And with it, the Portland story would seem to come to an end. Except for the fact that the Portland folks get to work for a new startup spun out of Goldstar. Meet Stellar… More
Why do posts about Portland weather often contain #pdxtst?
Every year around this time, Portland has some sort of weather event. And right on time, the feet of snow falling nearby and the closure of I-84 are probably resulting in any number of tweets in the Portland area. As part of those tweets, an astute Twitter user like you might notice that the hashtag #pdxtst seems prevalent… More
🌟 Community kudos
Has someone in the Portland startup community been helpful and deserving of recognition? Please take a few moments to share some kind words about them and let them know they’re valued as community members. Give them the kudos they deserve.
💼 Jobs
Lead Front End Engineer at Nombolo
Tiny Startup Seeking React Frontend Developer [Quote Us / Freelance / Remote] at Hyacinth Tech
Backend Developer at DeepSurface Security
iOS Developer at Kiva.org
Senior Backend Engineer, Protocol at Kiva.org
Senior Backend Internal Tools Engineer at Kiva.org
Hiring? Every single day a whole bunch of super talented and interesting people check the Silicon Florist job board in hopes of finding amazing companies like yours. So if you’re looking for incredibly intelligent, informed, and charming folks to join your company, you should be clicking the “Post a job” button. And since you’re a newsletter reader, please feel free to take 15% off your next long-term job post. Just use the discount code “iamawesome.”
🗓️ Events
I know that you’re busy. Here are events that are worthy of your consideration, this week.
Thursday (5:00PM) Accelerate Biotech & Digital Health Virtual Happy Hour
Friday (1:00PM) Machine Learning Operations with Christopher Thompson
Have an event you’d like to promote? Make sure to add it to Calagator.
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