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Ward Cunningham has joined his first startup. Who woulda thunk it would take so long. The article is about the startup scene in Portland, OR. Portland has so
by russell 17y ago
Ward Cunningham has joined his first startup. Who woulda thunk it would take so long.
The article is about the startup scene in Portland, OR. Portland has some pluses, like talented developers and money, and some minuses, like the inability to attract seasoned executives because of the lack of large companies (executive pool).
>"There's not one-upsmanship here," he said."I have friends in Austin, where I used to live, telling me they have a hard time building a technology community because there's a lot of rivalries. But that's not the case here."
Tatoo that on your hand. An area will fail if there is secretiveness instead of cooperation. I rate it as a good read for those wondering if their area has potential for startups.
- gruseom 17y agoYou're quite right that the article (despite its generic title) is about the Portland startup scene and paints a pretty interesting picture of it. But I thought if I were going to add one editorial aside, it should be about Ward, who's embedded halfway through and would be easy to miss otherwise. He's a great hacker, so the article literally contains hacker news!
- bjclark 17y agoYup, Ward is my boss. He joined AboutUs over 2 years ago. Portland is a great startup town. There's a few VCs specializing in PDX startups (Voyager Capital from Seattle is one, they funded AboutUs in Dec). And we hired another news.yc member qhoxie(http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=qhoxie http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=qhoxie) from here to move to Portland and join AboutUs.