Silicon Florist 🌹 Pitch Latinx is back 🎤

Issue 663

Pitch Latinx returns, Latinx Founders accelerator back on

After a pandemic hiatus, Portland entrepreneurs Juan Barraza and Edgar Navas are back on track to launch an accelerator aimed at Latinx founders. To kick it off, they are also bringing back the event Pitch Latinx. Six founders will take the stage Oct. 5 at the Redd on Salmon in Southeast Portland to showcase companies they're building, including those in the tech, food, consumer goods and footwear categories… More

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Rick Turoczy @turoczy

Hypothesis: A lot of the energy in the startup community that used to be directed toward "becoming a startup founder" has shifted to "becoming a VC," especially for nontechnical folks. Discuss.

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💼 Jobs

• Transaction Specialist at Portland State University Center for Entrepreneurship

• Software Engineer at Clarity Innovations, Inc.

• Senior Devops / Site Reliability Engineer at Kiva

• Sales Development Lead at Radious

• Sr. Software Engineer at Audigy

• Curtiss-Wright's PacStar Business Unit

  • Software DevOps Engineer

  • Software Development Engineer

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Rick Turoczy @turoczy

Those folks who always seem to be helping everyone else…? Don't forget that they often need help, too.

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🗓️ Events

• Monday (9:00AM) Startup Founder Walk & Talk

• Wednesday (5:30PM) Pitch Latinx

• Friday (All day) BSidesPDX 2022

• UPCOMING

  • PIE Demo Day 2022 (Oct 12)

  • Built Festival 2022 (Oct 21)

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Photo by Gabii Fernandez