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- Calagator — Portland's friendly technology event calendar. edit
- Inviite — Create, manage, and attend events in Portland (or wherever) edit
- Keeping it Realtime Conference — Talks, demos & discussions on the realtime web. Nov. 7+8 at left bank annex. edit
- Portland conferences on Lanyrd — A list of (mostly tech) conferences in Portland edit
Funding
- Financial Resources for Software in the Portland Area — Live link to a Google Doc shared by Portland, Oregon's "PDX11 Software Business Finance Working Group" and interested organizations. How to read the chart: the columns from left to right break out the stage of a software business and list resources according to stage; the rows in the chart break out types of resources, such as investment financing, incubators, mentoring, networking, and events. Some of the software companies that have recent engagement experience with various resources (well, ok, basically we've just done this for funding resources) are included in parentheses. edit
- Kickstarter — Crowdsource funding for creative projects across the world. edit
- OHSU Bioscience Innovation Fund — TTBD launched the Bioscience Innovation Fund (BSIF) in 2004 with financial support from the OHSU Foundation. BSIF supports commercial development of selected OHSU technologies. Over the last two years OHSU has invested $913,965 in projects reviewed and recommended by an advisory committee comprised of local entrepreneurial leaders. edit
- Oregon Angel Fund — OAF is a managed, investor-driven angel fund. OAF launches a new $3M+ fund each spring, aiming to place 4-5 investments of $400k-$600k over a 12-month active investing period. edit
- Portland Seed Fund — Stimulate entrepreneurial growth in PDX, coaching and making 10-15 investments per year ($25K - $50K). edit
- Willamette Angel Conference — An investor conference, connecting early businesses with angel investors. Start-ups submit business plans for review and coaching, ultimately vying for up to a $200K investment. edit
IRC Channels
- #brainsilo on Freenode — Portland's own hackerspace. edit
- #calagator on Freenode — Development and support for Calagator, Portland's tech calendar edit
- #dorkboxpdx on Freenode — People doing strange things with electricity edit
- #drupal-pnw on Freenode — Drupal users of the Pacific Northwest - replaces the deprecated drupal users of Portland (#drupal-pdx) edit
- #epdx on Freenode — This here site has a channel! Support, etc. edit
- #osbridge on Freenode — Planning and discussion around Portland's Open Source Bridge conference edit
- #osgeo-pdx on Freenode — Open Source GIS usergroup of Portland. edit
- #pdx.pm on irc.perl.org — The Portland PerlMongers edit
- #pdx.rb on Freenode — A channel for the Portland Ruby Users Group and other ruby discussion. edit
- #pdxdjango on Freenode — Django coders in Portland edit
- #pdxfunc on Freenode — The channel of the Portland Functional Programming Study Group edit
- #pdxhackathon on Freenode — Shenanigans. Also, hacking on Thursday nights at the Lucky Lab in SE edit
- #pdxpug on Freenode — Portland PostgreSQL users! edit
- #pdxpython on Freenode — Channel for the Portland Python Users Group and other pythonic chatter. edit
- #pdxscala on Freenode — Portland's Scala user group channel edit
- #pdxtech on Freenode — General tech discussion for the Portland Tech Community. edit
- #pdxwebdev on Freenode — Builders of the internet, geeks at large. edit
Managed IT Services
- Portland Cloud Computing Services — Down to Earth Cloud Solutions edit
Mentoring
- ePDX Groups that provide Mentoring — (Link to the list of ePDX groups with a 'mentoring' tag.) edit
News
- CresaPartners Blog — Commercial real estate news and advocacy for technology companies. edit
- Silicon Florist — Covering the blossoming startup industry in Portland, Oregon, and the Silicon Forest edit
- The Oregonian's Silicon Forest Blog — Tech business journalism from the O. edit
- The ft.² Report — Commercial real estate curiousities and other news about Portland/SW Washington office and industrial tenants on the move. edit
Other Directories
- Crunchbase Portland — The companies listed on Crunchbase within 5 miles of Portland, Oregon. edit
- Interhoods Portland — A directory of designers and developers in Portland, linked to Dribbble and GitHub accounts edit
- PRTLND — A directory of people who make stuff in Portland built by Chris Kalani edit
- Portland Tech Twitter — Directory of Portland Tech Twitter users hosted by AboutUs edit
- Portland User Group Wiki — A wiki listing technology user groups and events edit
Technology
- IBM Business Partner Portland — Nordisk systems is an IBM Business Partner based in Portland, Oregon. It specializes in managing Tivoli products like storage manager, access manager and identity manager for all your data center needs. edit
Wiki
- PortlandWiki — A wiki about Portland edit