Founder, General Manager
Rick Turoczy
Starter of startups that help startups in #pdx — and often elsewhere. Started @silicon-florist @piepdx @built-oregon TechfestNW @oregon-story-board
Starter of startups that help startups in #pdx — and often elsewhere. Started @silicon-florist @piepdx @built-oregon TechfestNW @oregon-story-board
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Experience
Built Oregon
Founder
Silicon Florist
Founder, Editor
Founder
Employee
Advisor
Mentor
Projects
Volunteer efforts to connect community
Community Manager · Have spent significant time and energy connecting dots and organizing events to ensure that folks can effectively engage and… · More collaborate with others in the Portland startup community
Helping Indie.vc beta test the Scout program
Scout · We're piloting an Indie.vc Scout program in 2020. Our program will be cash-based. No complicated carry structures. No fund return hurdles… · More to clear. If you refer a company we fund, we'll simply cut you a check that you can do with as you wish.
Helping connect and support Zebras around the wolrd
Community · Not every startup wants to be a Unicorn
Interesting stuff that may have passed you by
Writer, Substack · In Case It Missed You is an irregularly published newsletter of interesting stories, products, and other random things that may have… · More passed you by or fallen off of your to-do list — but are still worth reading.
Writing
Writing
An open source guide for startup accelerators
Building a startup accelerator is hard. That's why PIE wants to open source its learnings. So anyone can build one for their community.
We’d… · More love to have you join us in building the PIE Cookbook, an open source guide designed to help anyone, anywhere build the startup accelerator of their dreams. Why are we doing this? Because we believe that each and every community — with the right tools — has the potential to assist and accelerate its most promising folks further and faster toward success. And that’s good for everyone.
By joining us, you’ll gain access to everything we’ve learned from nearly a decade of accelerating startups, building relationships that strengthen community, and facilitating creative output. What’s more — since this is an open source project — you’ll have the opportunity take part in creating the most effective documentation for building, managing, and running a successful startup accelerator for your community — whatever that community may be.
We’d… · More love to have you join us in building the PIE Cookbook, an open source guide designed to help anyone, anywhere build the startup accelerator of their dreams. Why are we doing this? Because we believe that each and every community — with the right tools — has the potential to assist and accelerate its most promising folks further and faster toward success. And that’s good for everyone.
By joining us, you’ll gain access to everything we’ve learned from nearly a decade of accelerating startups, building relationships that strengthen community, and facilitating creative output. What’s more — since this is an open source project — you’ll have the opportunity take part in creating the most effective documentation for building, managing, and running a successful startup accelerator for your community — whatever that community may be.
Simplifying status reporting for startups
Product Management · Keep your investors, advisors, mentors, and team members in the loop. Your status reports deserve better than email.
Education
About
Achievements
Rick Turoczy (@Rick Turoczy) has been working in, on, and around venture funded startups for 25+ years. As founder of Silicon Florist, he has supported the Portland startup community for nearly 15 years. As part of that effort, Rick created PIE (the Portland Incubator Experiment), a startup accelerator formed in partnership with global advertising firm Wieden+Kennedy, creators of Nike "Just Do It" and the Old Spice Guy. Over time, PIE has partnered with Autodesk, Coca-Cola, Daimler, Google, Intel, Nike, Target, and others. Those efforts led him to cofound TechFestNW, a destination tech event; Oregon Story Board, a startup accelerator focused on digital storytelling industries; and Built Oregon, a nonprofit focused on the consumer product business community in Oregon.
Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
Skills
Locations
Q&A
What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?
Startup Communities by Brad Feld
What's your favorite non-business book?
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?
Helping startups
What words of advice would you give your younger self?
Done is better than perfect
What's your super power?
Connecting dots
What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?
I made a list. https://twitter.com/turoczy/status/649761966777458688
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