Hard Drive

BY LINDA BAKER

“You have to be awesome at everything.” Brian Jamison, founder of game shop Jumpdrive Studios, is explaining how to succeed in the hypercompetitive world of gaming, where 15,000 games show up on the app store each month.

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One Tough Mayor

Betty Roppe steers Prineville into the future.

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Run, Nick, Run

Controversial track star Nick Symmonds is leveraging his celebrity to grow a performance chewing-gum brand. Fans hail his marketing ploys as genius. Critics dub them shameless.
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Unshakable

 
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Up in the Air

BY ANNIE ELLISON

Portland tech veteran Ben Berry is leaving his post as Portland’s chief technology officer for a full-time role producing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) aimed at first responders and the military. Berry’s AirShip Technologies Group is poised to be on the ground floor of an industry that will supply drones to as many as 100,000 police, fire and emergency agencies nationwide. He reveals the plan for takeoff.

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Undersea Power

BY JACOB PALMER

Mike Morrow and Mike Delos-Reyes first came up with the idea of an ocean power device 23 years ago, when they were students at Oregon State University. They realized a long-held vision last summer, when their startup, M3 Wave, successfully launched the first ocean power device that works underwater.

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Picture This

BY JACOB PALMER

As a general rule, the more people with autism can be provided with visual cues, the better they will be able to understand and manage their environment. It’s a lesson Tom Keating learned well. The 61-year-old Eugene grant writer spent 31 years taking care of his autistic brother James, and in the late 1980s developed a spreadsheet that created a series of nonsense characters that grew or shrank depending on how much money James had in his account. 

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The Good Hacker

BY CHRIS HIGGINS

As digital security breaches skyrocket, a cybersleuth everyman takes center stage.

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