Micah on May 24th, 2008

The evening kicked off at Vidoop, a good open (and well-disguised) place just off Burnside. Started meeting some folks right away, and exchanging homely business cards. It was nice to see a few ladies there. I got to talk to about half the people. Very friendly and open group. An hour in, all 50 of [...]

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Micah on May 23rd, 2008

As I mentioned in my last post, Eventbrite has kindly provided a list of all 50 SWPDX attendees, including their blogs. I also noticed an “OPML Feed” link there. Sweet! Unfortunately, that OPML is useless for Google Reader (lacking xmlUrls), and likely the same story for other readers. I had to manually load each one [...]

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Micah on May 22nd, 2008

Portland Startup Weekend starts tomorrow night at 6:00. I’ll be covering the event though my lens in upcoming posts here. It’s been a bit tedious to gather all the bits and pieces of the event. Here is a list of sites that participate in its organization: The Portland Startup Weekend Blog The “Portland” sub-blog of [...]

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Micah on May 14th, 2008

There’s a lot going on around Portland, Oregon, to get hackers working together. Below is a list of groups/events I’ve discovered. I haven’t yet attended any of them, but I’m planning to hit most of them throughout this year. Not all are focused on entrepreneurship, but I bet that the attendees are the right types [...]

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