Silicon Florist 🌹 New pub on Portland startups, BVC semi-finalists, XXcelerate upgrade ↗️
Issue 609
A new publication focused on Portland startups
Ask anybody. Portland can always use more folks talking about what’s being built here. And what founders are starting here. And that’s why it’s always great to see other publications focusing time and energy on telling the story of those startups in town. Especially, when they bring real journalists to bear on that storytelling… More
BVC reveals semi-finalists competing to take the stage
For early stage startups, the path to the stage at the largest early stage pitch competition in the Pacific Northwest goes through the September EDCO Central Oregon PubTalk, where each company will present a three minute pitch with the hopes of being one of the finalists selected to take the BVC stage in October… More
XXcelerate adds Virginia Lemos as Program Manager
The Portland nonprofit organization focused expressly on supporting women entrepreneurs with business education and peer support, XXcelerate, has announced the hiring of a new Programs Manager for the organization… More
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Jobs 💼
Product Manager at Leanpath (Food Waste Prevention)
Product Manager at Megh Computing
CAD Ninja / Industrial Designer at HILOS
Junior Security Analyst at DeepSurface Security
Full Stack Web Engineer at Riot New Media Group
Front-End Developer - React / Redux - All Experience Levels at ZHealth
Events 🗓️
I know that you’re busy. Here are events that are worthy of your consideration, this week.
Thursday (5:00PM) Slow Pitch with Oregon Venture Fund
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