The Startup Chronicle is setting up shop throughout the Northwest, a NY tech firm is coming to Eugene, and a Bend entrepreneur will be on Shark Tank.
BY JACOB PALMER | OB DIGITAL NEWS EDITOR
The Startup Chronicle is setting up shop throughout the Northwest, a NY tech firm is coming to Eugene, and a Bend entrepreneur will be on Shark Tank.
Thubton Comerford wants to bring his program to 40 cities, but will start with Portland, Seattle, Boise and Spokane.
The team plans to spend five days in each city steering entrepreneurs through the program. At the end, the entrepreneurs involved will have a honed story, training and some video content. The program also involves leaving behind a “city editor” who will continue to collect videos with entrepreneurs in that city. Those videos and any accompanying blog posts would be posted on the Startup Chronicle website.
Comerford is targeting existing accelerators and other startup groups in cities as clients. It would be up to those groups to wrangle entrepreneurs to participate, and pay the $25,000 program fee, or come up with local underwriters.
Read more at the Portland Business Tribune.
A flourishing New York-based ad tech group — AppNexus — is going to distribute some of its recent growth to Eugene and Portland.
Four engineering openings are advertised in Eugene. This year the company also might add one or two marketing people here, and there may be more openings to come, [marketing head Pat] McCarthy said.
Even more growth is projected for AppNexus’ Portland office, which has 29 employees and 23 openings.
Read more at the Register Guard.
Finally, the Bend Bulletin reports that a central Oregon entrepreneur is going to pitch her dog energy bar “TurboPup” on the Jan. 16 episode of Shark Tank on ABC.
[Kristina] Guerrero is scheduled to make her pitch to entrepreneurs Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and AXS TV; Daymond John, fashion and branding expert; Barbara Corcoran, real estate mogul; Robert Herjavec, who has built and sold several technology companies; and Kevin O’Leary, creator of software companies and a mutual fund, according to the ABC television network. The show is scheduled to air at 9 p.m.
