Silicon Florist 🌹 Black History Month recap, Guest post, Westside Pitch 🎤

Issue 633

Mar 05, 2022

Black History Month: Celebrating amazing Black Oregon businesses

If Stephen Green and Built Oregon are going to share stories of amazing Black founders and businesses in Portland and throughout Oregon every day of Black History Month, then I’m going to provide a recap of those posts for posterity. That’s how the tradition goes… More

GUEST POST: For Portlanders building a company, meet PIE!

Editor: Portland startup founder Rachel Bell submitted this guest post as a way to share her experience in PIE, an early-stage startup accelerator. And to encourage other founders to apply to the program. The following post has not been edited. Full disclosure: I am the cofounder and general manager of PIE… More

WILDFANG’s Emma Mcilroy among Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellows

Sometimes, we have startup founders who have been at it so long — and so consistently — that we kind of just take their awesomeness for granted. And that’s why it’s always nice to be reminded of the amazing people we have here in our midst. Like Emma Mcilroy, founder of WILDFANG, who was recently named to the 2022 Class of Henry Crown Fellows… More

Westside Pitch Competition 2022: And the finalists are…

A then, there were six. The Westside Pitch Competition 2022 has winnowed the field of applicants down to the finalists. And the group features everything from a food brand to solutions for food service, visually impaired individuals, cannabis, and accessing space… More

Rick Turoczy @turoczy

Many folks experienced the worst that humanity has to offer this week. Please take a moment to also recognize that it's been yet another rough week for you. After seemingly unending rough weeks. Give yourself some grace. Please resist the urge to try to "catch up" this weekend 🧡

💐 Silicon Florist links arrangement

February 28, 2022: Startup marketing mistakes, Seattle web3 startups
March 1, 2022: Moats, Risk, and Storytelling
March 2, 2022: Seattle’s newest VC, Portland M&A frenzy
March 3, 2022: OEN PubTalks return, Product-Market fit
March 4, 2022: $5.5M for Knapsack, A Kids Book About War

Rick Turoczy @turoczy

I get it. You're like, "Should I really take the time to apply for @piepdx…? I'm super busy with my startup." But if you're also like, "This is really hard. And lonely. I wish I had someone in my corner to help me through this." Then you should go here: piepdx.com/prep

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Rick Turoczy @turoczy

I recognize how privileged we are to get the opportunity to have hundreds of folks entrusting @piepdx to review their fledgling startup ideas. And how challenging it can be to put yourself out there. But I will be forever thankful that you take the opportunity to do so 🧡🙏🧡