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Rick Turoczy in Silicon Florist

Oct 10, 2019

Unrated Director’s Cut: Complete unedited responses from my recent Willamette Week interview on the Portland startup community

You may have seen the print edition or the online version of my interview with Willamette Week, this week. I was…

Rick Turoczy in Silicon Florist

Nov 14, 2018

Reflecting on why the Cozy and Radar exits are important for the Portland startup community

Startup exits — or “liquidity events” as they call them in the biz — are great. And when the exits are multiples of the amount of capital a company has raised, they’re great…

Rick Turoczy in Silicon Florist

Jul 23, 2018

Building community, an introvert’s guide. And a bunch of better talks from TEDxPortland 2018.

This Spring, I was given the opportunity to take the stage for TEDxPortland. Which, I later learned, is among the top three TEDx events in the world. And it’s a good…

Rick Turoczy in Silicon Florist

Feb 9, 2018

Glimmers of a Portland startup accelerator renaissance? Built Oregon, PIE, and XXcelerate Fund show promise in 2018

There was a time, not so long ago, when Portland had an embarrassment of riches on the startup incubator and accelerator front. But as…

Rick Turoczy in Silicon Florist

Aug 7, 2018

It goes to 11: Silicon Florist is officially a tween

I’m tired, Portland. For any number of reasons. But mostly because — after more than a decade of writing this blog on a weekly basis — this community still feels like it needs a ton of work. You must be tired, too. Because you have all…

Rick Turoczy in Silicon Florist

Aug 15, 2018

Hair Nah. Momo Pixel’s Momoland? Yes, please

So remember a few months back… that Portland indie video game that blew up? You know, the one where you play a black woman swatting folks away from uninvitedly touching your hair? No. You got that right. The whitest city in the United States was home…

Rick Turoczy in Silicon Florist

Jul 18, 2018

A nostalgic Beer and Blog: It’s like a high school reunion but for Portland startup and open source types

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Rick Turoczy in Silicon Florist

Jun 26, 2018

Unpacking Jama Software’s $200 million round

Yes. $200 million. For a Portland startup. It’s really really easy to blanche at that number. I get it. It’s a big number. Especially for a homegrown Portland company in the software world. And were this earlier in the life of Silicon Florist, I could…

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Rick Turoczy in Silicon Florist

Aug 3, 2018

The original Internet Astronaut returns home to launch into his next adventure

Back a dozen years or so, before I started this blog, I happened upon COLOURlovers, a Portland founded startup that was unlike anything I had seen to date. It wasn’t a business to business site…

Rick Turoczy in Silicon Florist

May 1, 2019

The newest face of WeWork Labs Portland should be a familiar face to the Portland startup community

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