This week was a rollercoaster of highest highs and lowest lows. PDXWIT, the nonprofit focused on making the Portland Oregon tech community more inclusive was forced to shut its doors, PitchBlack handed out more than $80,000 in prizes, two time Y Combinator alum Darius Monsef has a new AI startup, and more.

PORTLAND OREGON STARTUP + TECH NEWS 
00:00 This week in Portland Oregon startup and tech news
00:29 PDXWIT is no more https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/inno/stories/news/2024/02/06/pdxwit-shut-down-funding-dei.html
05:48 PitchBlack 2024 names winners
10:45 2x Y Combinator alum has a new startup
14:11 Portland Winter Light Festival ends this weekend
14:21 Super Bowl Sunday

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

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On Season 2, Episode 2 of theupperleft, we sit down with Allie Magyar, Founder and CEO of Vancouver, WA based Hubb, an event management solution and powerful business intelligence tool that brings innovation and data-driven decision making to the events industry.  Hubb recently announced a $6.3M Series B round that was led by Five Elms Capital and includes follow-on investment from Oregon Venture Fund and Elevate Capital.

Allie is passionate about entrepreneurship and women in technology, and recently discussed her experience managing growth and pursuing funding as a female entrepreneur at the first ever Elevate Inclusion Summit in Portland, Oregon: https://blog.hubb.me/allie-talks-venture-capital-for-female-entrepreneurs

Hubb raised a $3.7 Seed round, including $140,000 at the 2016 Bend Venture Conference and $155,000 at the 2016 Seattle Angel Conference.

Season 2, Episode 2: Allie Magyar, Hubb

On Season 2, Episode 5 of theupperleft, we sit down with Rick Turoczy (https://twitter.com/turoczy), cofounder and general manager of PIE (https://piepdx.com), an ongoing experiment designed to explore how more established organizations — like corporations, government entities, and educational institutions — can more effectively collaborate with the Portland startup community, for mutual benefit.

Rick is more than mildly obsessed with connecting dots in the Portland startup community (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj98mr_wUA0). In addition to PIE, he has written about the community for a dozen years (https://siliconflorist.com), helped start TechfestNW (https://techfestnw.com), and serves as the lead organizer of Portland Startup Week (https://portland.startupweek.co). At the time of this recording, he was actively prepping for PIE Demo Day (https://bit.ly/PIEDD2019) and working to bring his peers from around the country to Portland for the Startup Champions Network Summit (http://startupchampions.co).

Season 2, Episode 5: Rick Turoczy, Portland Incubator Experiment

Interviews with Leslie Feinzaig and Chris Devore, to discuss Seattle’s flywheel potential, the evolution of accelerator models, reaching across the diversity divide, and what you should know before you try and snag a coffee meeting with these two in-demand Seattle powerhouses.

Seattle Startup Powerhouses

Rick Turoczy is the founder of the Portland Incubator Experiment -PIE - and author of the Silicon Florist.  We celebrate two years on the air with the godfather of the Portland startup ecosystem and one of the most influential voices on entrepreneurship. In this episode we focus on how the Portland startup scene has grown for the last 20 years with the unofficial Mayor of startup Portland.  Connector, Mentor, and friend to a lot of us in the community, we pay homage to the introvert genius that has positively influenced many lives.

Rick Turoczy es el fundador de la Incubadora Experimental de Portland (PIE) y autor del blog Silicon Florist. En este episodio celebramos dos años en el aire con el Padrino del ecosistema startupero de Portland y una de las voces mas influenciales del emprendimiento. En este episodio nos enfocamos en el crecimiento de Portland como ecosistema de startups en los ultimos 20 años con el Alcalde de Startup Portland. Rendimos homenaje a una gran figura que ha sido mentor, consultor y amigo de muchos fundadores a los cuales ha influenciado de manera positiva.

#100 Rick Turoczy with Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE)

Welcome to the PIEdcast, a podcast featuring conversations with folks from the PIE family. An amazing group of startup founders, mentors, and partners who — for more than a decade — have helped PIE in our mission to build better founders and make new mistakes. 

The E in PIE stands for experiment. And this is our latest. Though probably not greatest.

00 - Piedcast - Trailer

Expert Advice is our new column that shines a light on the leading voices across music business, marketing, wellness and more and shares tips straight from the source on how to grow your career and find sustainable success.

Biz 3 founder and CEO Kathryn Frazier has been in the music & rap game 25+ years and has built one of the most prominent music PR firms in the country known for launching the careers or repping known artists such as Migos, Skrillex, The Weeknd, Daft Punk, Anderson .Paak, J. Cole, Lil Yachty, etc.  She has created another branch as an ICF certified Life, Executive and Relationship Coach to help get the best version of yourself/your career and to help those in the industry she saw gaining success but losing out emotionally or physically. 

Hear her tips for taking of care of yourself and keeping cool while staying indoors.

Expert Advice: Kathryn Frazier's tips for at-home self-care

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