Silicon Florist 🌹 GoCamp acquired, New OCF fund, Skittish 🐄🐖🦆

Issue 618

Nov 20, 2021

Woman founded Portland startup GoCamp acquired

If you’ve ever seen those rentable custom Sprinter vans in your forays into the outdoors, you’ve like encountered GoCamp, the Portland startup that’s like “Airbnb for camper vans.” Well it was a Portland startup at least. Until it got acquired by Storyteller Overland, last week… More

OCF launches $580,000 Thriving Entrepreneurs Fund

Oregon Community Foundation focuses on improving the lives of all Oregonians through philanthropic efforts. But today, they focused on a very particular group of Oregonians: entrepreneurs. And they did so by donating $580,000 to a variety fo entrepreneur support groups… More

Meet Skittish, a new online event platform that takes a quirky approach

Any number of online event platforms try varying degrees of approximating an event environment, virtually. But most, at best, create an uncanny valley of “almost but not quite.” So what if you took a completely different approach? Like, I don’t know… riffing on the incredibly popular Animal Crossing as an event environment? That’s about the most accurate description of Skittish… More

Rick Turoczy @turoczy

This has come up in a few conversations lately. So often—driven by a culture of curiosity—#pdx has been early to stuff like Internet, Web, Open Source, Mobile, Social, XR, Serverless, 3D Printing… but I see far less curiosity and experimentation around web3 and that's concerning

schlomo.eth ᵍᵐ @Schlomo

Here in PDX, the local journals don't really cover #web3, or even nominate us for biz awards even though I've helped generate literally millions of dollars over the last six months... and there are people generating even more than that in the space living here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Rick Turoczy @turoczy

"Venture funding is the clickbait of the tech world. Funding announcements saturate newsfeeds, conditioning founders to believe that venture capital is the only path to growth and success." news.crunchbase.com/news/founders-… via @crunchbasenews

news.crunchbase.comFounders, Stop Obsessing Over Venture FundingAn obsession with funding can lead founders to make decisions that aren’t in the best interests of their employees, customers and shareholders. Raising capital isn’t an achievement—it’s an obligation you make to investors, writes David Kolodny of Wilbur Labs.

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Backend PHP/Symfony Engineer at Vacatia
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Platform Architect (Portland, OR or Remote) at Next Reason

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