Portland Startup Week 2017

Are you building a business, a brand, or movement? Do you believe in making the world a better place, starting here in Portland? If so, please join us February 6 at Vacasa!

Innovate and Advocate is a full-day summit that brings together community leaders, local business success stories, and startup founders to talk, learn, and act on making the world both a more interesting and a better place. Join us!

You'll hear from 9+ amazing (local!) speakers, including Stephen Green, Beth Duckles, Ciara Pressler, Susan Shephard and may more! Topics covered during Innovate and Advocate will focus on laying a sustainable, ethical foundation for your business, growing your business well, and using tools to engage your customers.

Innovate and Advocate is for you if:

• You're thinking about starting a business or startup 
• You've launched your business and are figuring out how to grow 
• You've already reached success but want to "do more" and engage your community 
• You're an investor or advisor to startups

Tickets are free, but there are only 60! If you are an underrepresented person in tech or startups (POC, Trans, LGBTQ, veteran, woman, disabled, or other), please use code "inviteonly" - we have intentionally reserved 30 tickets to ensure that Innovate and Advocate is a diverse environment. We are developing our code of conduct, but are using Stumptown Syndicate as our model.

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It's Portland Startup Week! What better time to get the startup community together? 

That's why Built Oregon, PIE, and Silicon Florist is using Startup Week as an opportunity to kick off a new year of Community Hour[s], our ongoing gatherings for all of the people who make up the entrepreneurial fabric of our community. We'll also be joined by our friends Cascade Angels. There is no agenda, panel, or discussion. It’s a time to relax and network with old friends and make new connections with your peers and across industries. 

As much as we all love technology, we realize that community relationships are built through personal connections and shared stories. So we hope you’ll join us for a few minutes — or a couple of hours.

This will be a combined event with the XXcelerate Fund Meet 'n' Greet.

Join the group of local women entrepreneurs, investors, and lenders that created the XXcelerate Fund to build profitable Oregon-based businesses! Come learn about how the fund will address the critical and entrenched capital shortfall facing women entrepreneurs, act as a local, evergreen resource for women and use capacity-building funding from the Portland Development Commission.

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Portland Travel Massive is back! We are excited to kick off our 2017 event with the topic of "collaboration opportunities in our Travel Massive network." Our speakers Daniel and Shyla Bare of Wild Spirit Travel will discuss how they successfully partnered with Vacasa, Travel Oregon, and ex-officio because of connections within our community. There will be discussion questions and time to network with members about how we can help each other. Anyone with a collaboration success story is welcome to share! 

As usual we will be giving away a FREE vacation stay in Oregon (sponsored by Vacasa). 

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A Hack the Dot is a two-hour hackathon where coding school students, junior developers, experienced developers, marketers, designers and curious web people come together to build ideas around a domain name. Our events are meant to be a quick and fun way to build a humorous (and functional) product quickly while meeting people in your tech/startup community.

There will be pizza. And beer.

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