Podcasts about portland seed fund

This week, we talk about Portland Seed Fund's new fund, new team member, and new investments; highlight the Alexis Ohanian investment in The Sports Bra; talk about former Magic Leap-ers and their new startup; take a few minutes to highlight Dave Hersh's new book Reignition (https://amzn.to/49Q4Y9n); and congratulate the new Demolicious winner. Let's get into it. ABOUT SILICON FLORIST ---------- For nearly two decades, Rick Turoczy has published Silicon Florist, a blog and podcast that covers founders, startups, entrepreneurship, tech, news, and events in the Portland, Oregon, startup community. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a startup or tech enthusiast, or simply intrigued by Portland's startup culture, Silicon Florist is your go-to source for the latest news, events, jobs, and opportunities in Portland Oregon's flourishing tech and startup scene. Join us in exploring the innovative world of startups in Portland, where creativity and collaboration meet. ABOUT RICK TUROCZY ---------- Rick Turoczy has been working in, on, and around the Portland, Oregon, startup community for nearly 30 years. He has been recognized as one of the “OG”s of startup ecosystem building by the Kauffman Foundation. And he has been humbled by any number of opportunities to speak on stages from SXSW to INBOUND and from Kobe, Japan, to Muscat, Oman, including an opportunity to share his views on community building on the TEDxPortland stage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj98mr_wUA0). All because of a blog. Weird. https://siliconflorist.com #podcast

This week, Digs raises $7 million from Oregon Venture Fund, Portland Seed Fund, and others; the Portland Mercado food carts are back online; Demolicious returns; and the Silicon Forest Tech Summit is in the books, successfully. PORTLAND TECH AND STARTUP NEWS 00:00 Portland startup and tech news 01:04 Portland Mercado food carts are back 01:47 Successful Silicon Forest Tech Summit 03:08 Digs raises $7M with Oregon Venture Fund and Portland Seed Fund 04:30 Demolicious is back 05:59 First Friday and Portland Winter Light Festival 07:18 OVF PDX AI showcase 08:13 Westside Pitch 2024 09:23 Rosie, Portland startup AI helper ABOUT SILICON FLORIST ---------- For nearly two decades, Rick Turoczy has published Silicon Florist, a blog and podcast that covers founders, startups, entrepreneurship, tech, news, and events in the Portland, Oregon, startup community. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a startup or tech enthusiast, or simply intrigued by Portland's startup culture, Silicon Florist is your go-to source for the latest news, events, jobs, and opportunities in Portland Oregon's flourishing tech and startup scene. Join us in exploring the innovative world of startups in Portland, where creativity and collaboration meet. ABOUT RICK TUROCZY ---------- Rick Turoczy has been working in, on, and around the Portland, Oregon, startup community for nearly 30 years. He has been recognized as one of the “OG”s of startup ecosystem building by the Kauffman Foundation. And he has been humbled by any number of opportunities to speak on stages from SXSW to INBOUND and from Kobe, Japan, to Muscat, Oman, including an opportunity to share his views on community building on the TEDxPortland stage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj98mr_wUA0). All because of a blog. Weird. https://siliconflorist.com #portland

Episode Summary:In today's episode, we're joined by the inspiring Caroline Cummings, CEO of RAIN Catalysts. Tracing a career that's woven through startups, bustling corporate halls, and now to the passionate realm of nonprofits, Caroline brings a unique lens to the entrepreneurial journey. But what truly sets this conversation apart is our deep dive into "work-life integration" - a concept Caroline passionately advocates for. Beyond just that, RAIN Catalysts is on a commendable mission: leveling the entrepreneurial playing field by building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in rural areas. By bringing the tools, resources, and education often reserved for startup hubs to these often overlooked communities, they're fueling dreams and ambitions miles away from the metropolitan hustle. Tune in to discover how Caroline and RAIN Catalysts are changing the entrepreneurial narrative, one rural community at a time.Links to Things Mentioned in this Episode:website: https://www.raincatalysts.org/IG: @raincatalystsfb: https://www.facebook.com/raincatalysts.orgYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLgZKwZuVNzJUEtcfIOBuhgIEDC Program: https://www.iedconline.org/FailCon: https://thefailcon.com/Portland Seed Fund: https://portlandseedfund.com/The Danger of a Single Story: https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_storyErnesto Sarali Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/ernesto_sirolli_want_to_help_someone_shut_up_and_listen?language=enWe Should All be Feminists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3umXU_qWcCheck out the Camano Voice Link Tree ( https://linktr.ee/camanovoice )

835- A self-professed nerd with an MBA, Kate Bagoy is a UX Designer turned Forbes Councils business coach and founder of Six Figure Freelancers, where she helps new freelancers and consultants get started and get to cash, quick. After quitting a corporate dream job in 2008, Kate moved to Silicon Valley to work for a mobile startup, and she's been working with entrepreneurs ever since! She's worked with more than 50 startups as a designer, marketer, product manager, strategist, analyst, and advisor and has coached 1000's of consultants through starting a business and landing consulting clients. Kate is a graduate of the Portland Seed Fund, served as a mentor at the ATDC startup accelerator, and has led projects for Fortune 500 companies Nike, Ricoh, HP, and Microsoft. She holds a BFA in graphic design and an MBA in marketing and international business. Obsessed with travel since a flight to Oregon at six, Kate has been traveling as a digital nomad since 2017 – running her business entirely online from 25 countries – and helps other creatives find their freedom at sixfigurefreelancers.com. Kate's personal mission is to inspire and empower people to lead lives by design, not default. ________ Want your customers to talk about you to their friends and family? That's what we do! We get your customers to talk about you so that you get more referrals with video testimonials. Go to www.BusinessBros.biz to be a guest on the show or to find out more on how we can help you get more customers! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/businessbrospod/support

Kate Bagoy is the Founder and Business Coach for Six-Figure Freelancers, teaching the secret to earning upwards of $10k a month while working from a beach, a mountain top, or even just from the sofa in your PJs. She’s a Business Coach for the Forbes Coaches Council, an invitation-only organization that selects its members based on their depth and diversity of experience. Kate is also a former startup UX designer, hacker, and is now a self-confessed spiritual junkie who ditched the golden handcuffs of a safe, well-paid job to do it on her own terms from wherever in the world she feels like it. Kate is a graduate of the Portland Seed Fund, served as a mentor at the ATDC startup accelerator, and holds a BFA in graphic design and an MBA in marketing and international business. In today’s episode, Kate joins me to reveal the secrets of her digital nomad success and what inspired her to run her marketing company online while she chased the sun. She discusses burning out in her first corporate job and how this, coupled with the stress of studying and drinking too much, lead her to ask what she really wanted from life. Kate reveals how she initially didn’t feel worthy of her consulting earnings due to finding the work easy and what it took to allocate value to her services. We also discuss the need for resilience when running your business and how this skill and mindset can be trained and strengthened like a muscle so that you can get back up when it gets hard, deal with setbacks or rejection, and remain focused on your destination. “Profit to me is having more money than your expenses and your desired lifestyle” – Kate Bagoy “Just because it’s a natural gift doesn’t mean it’s easy to other people” – Kate Bagoy “We undervalue ourselves. And that’s partly because we don’t know how to talk about what we do” – Kate Bagoy “We always try to find a reason why our businesses fail. Blame it on the economy. Blame it on the market. Blame it on the client. Bad Marketing – fit - whatever. But really RESILIENT founders find a way forward” – Kate Bagoy “A Goal is just a dream with a deadline. If you have a dream of someday starting a business, give it a fricking deadline and make it a goal” – Kate Bagoy This week on Profit For Coaches: Why your natural talent is still worth other peoples’ money Why ‘charge what your worth’ is unhelpful when determining your price How to train yourself to be more resilient How to create new good habits in your work-flow Kate’s No.1 skillset any coach, freelancer, or consultant should have How to address the good and bad triggers in your life The FREE eBook you can access today Resources Mentioned: Book: Mindset   Book: The One Thing Connect with Kate Bagoy: Six-Figure Freelancers Website Kate Bagoy’s Website Kate Bagoy on LinkedIn Kate Bagoy on Instagram Connect with Jos Willard: Profit For Coaches Website Jos Willard on LinkedIn Jos Willard on Twitter Jos Willard on Instagram The Four Must-Haves for a Profitable Coaching Practice I want to make sure that the time you invest here is profitable. And the best way to do that is to make sure you grab a copy of the free eBook The Four Must-Haves for a Profitable Coaching Practice. It’s absolutely free, it’s worth every penny. It outlines the four areas that every profitable coaching practice on the planet has in common.  And thus, they’re the four things that you must have nailed down in your coaching practice if you want it to be consistently profitable. So if you want an easy to understand very specific tool that makes it crystal clear where to be focusing your attention in your practice, and what you can safely ignore to ensure that your practice is consistently profitable and supports the life that you want to be living go to: Profitforcoaches.com and download your copy of The Four Must-Haves for a Profitable Coaching Practice today.

Chris talks to the President and CEO of the Technology Association of Oregon (TAO), Skip Newberry. While Skip may not work in the DS community day-to-day, he has a unique view on design and development from working with so many Oregon tech companies. The two talk about focusing on the use of design when helping to reach communities outside of the standard spectrum. Additionally, they discuss the idea of how ubiquity matters, to reach the most people, leveraging technology as much as possible to augment in-person connectivity, how Oregon tech companies are going through digital transformations and much more.Download episode transcript:http://files.basalt.io.s3.amazonaws.com/podcast_transcripts/007-Design-Systems-Podcast-Transcript.pdfSkip NewberryPresident and CEO, Technology Association of OregonSkip is a frequent speaker on technology trends and topics, economic development, public-private partnerships, and civic innovation. Before joining the TAO, Skip served as an economic development policy advisor to Portland Mayor Sam Adams, where he helped create Portland's first comprehensive economic development strategy in 16 years, recognizing software as a key industry cluster. While at the City of Portland, Skip's projects included the adoption of the nation's first open-source software procurement policy at the municipal level, an award-winning regional open data initiative and the development of resources to support entrepreneurship, like the Portland Seed Fund. Previously, Skip was a corporate and IP attorney and entrepreneur. Skip is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of TECNA, Technology Councils of North America, which is a global network of technology and entrepreneurship associations, and he serves on the community advisory board for Wells Fargo and several community-based organizations in the Portland area. Skip is also a 2012 recipient of the Portland Business Journal's 40 Under 40 award. When he's not working on behalf of the region's tech industry, Skip enjoys exploring the Pacific Northwest with his family.You can find Skip on LinkedIn.

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Ryan Fink, CEO of Streem.pro. Streem is a on-demand communication and collaboration tool for home service professionals. Based in Portlan, OR, the Company recently raised $3.7 million of seed funding from GVR Fund, Flying Fish Venture Partners, Columbia Ventures, Rogue Venture Partners, Curious Capital, Betaworks, Greycroft, GGV Capital, Archivist Capital, Oregon Venture Fund, Portland Seed Fund and General Catalyst. In this episode, Ryan talks about pitching investors with just an MVP, building a 2-sided market, turning around investors who said "no" by sending them regular progress updates, raising money in Portland, and much more.

Angela Jackson is a prominent figure within the #Portland start up community. On this episode of Output PDX she talks about the local start up community, entrepreneurship and her work at Portland Seed Fund and the Portland State Business Accelerator.