PDX Founders!

Level up your startup game at our Bootstrapping Workshop for early-stage founders in PDX — no funding, no problem!

Join Amina Moreau from Radious for hands-on tips, real talk, and good vibes only.

Friday, May 30 @ the Hub

Generate Revenue Faster Unlock your first or next revenue stream through strategic partnerships

Join the Metro Region Innovation Hub and Go‑To‑Market startup strategist Lesley Carstens for a hands‑on workshop that shows you how to find and create partnerships to unlock your first — or an additional — revenue stream. Tech startups will learn how to find the right partners, engage them, and penetrate your target market and ecosystem faster.

Great partnerships can give you: - Instant credibility - Scaled impact - More opportunities - One great partnership can be worth 1,000 cold calls

Workshop agenda: 9:30 - 10:30am - Presentation/Overview & Q&A 10:45-12:00pm - Optional Workshop Lesley will randomly pick 1-2 startups in the room to do live outreach to prospective partners. Attendees will come away with a map for how to do partner outreach.

Bio: Lesley Carstens is a Go-To-Market Strategist with 20+ years of experience driving growth through high-value strategic alliances for both Fortune 500 companies and startups. She’s advised business luminaries like Keith Ferrazzi and Jay Abraham, and believes your next big opportunity is already in someone else’s network — you just need to unlock it. https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesleycarstens/

CALLING ALL EDUCATION ENTREPRENEURS!

Are you passionate about solving problems in education? Early-stage founders for education ventures face a lot of unique challenges, but also some unique opportunities. We're building a new event series for you called LRN|PDX!

Whether you want to build a for-profit, non-profit, or public-private venture, LRN|PDX is a monthly event series for entrepreneurs across the learning section, from K-to-Grey. We'll be delivering essential, from-the-trenches programming that ed founders need to hit those first milestones.

Join us for our first event:

Problem-Hunting for Ed Founders: Finding Problem-Solution Fit for Your Education Venture

Speakers: Justin Wolske (Chief Product Officer, Yellowbrick; Asad Butt (Director, Metro Region Innovation Hub); Other speakers TBD

Agenda

9a-10a: Founder Networking

10a-11a: Presentations

11a-12p: Founder Breakout Groups

Cost: FREE (light refreshments provided)

ABOUT LRN|PDX

LRN|PDX is a new initiative designed to serve education-focused ventures across the Portland and Oregon entrepreneurship ecosystems. Sponsored by Airy Disc Learning and the Metro Region Innovation Hub, LRN|PDX provides programming, networking opportunity, and expertise to help entrepreneurs solve the most pressing problems across the education landscape. If your organization is interested in joining LRN|PDX, please reach out to Justin or Asad.

Startup Cafe is a great opportunity for founders and startup partners to connect, learn, and level up. Free coffee and donuts throughout the event!

Feel free to drop by for 10 minutes or stay the entire time...all are welcome!

Agenda

9:00a - 12:00p - Main Event Space

General networking, coffee, and donuts. Open to All Founders

The Power of Storytelling for Founders: For Pitching or Selling, Be More Engaging with Stories

Make your investor or sales pitch more memorable and engaging with storytelling.

People naturally connect with stories and using storytelling can make your pitch more memorable and impactful. In today's competitive market, it's not enough to just have a good product or service; you also need to be able to effectively communicate your vision and value proposition. This is where storytelling comes in.

Storytelling helps founders stand out and make a lasting impression on potential investors and customers.

In this virtual workshop, Dana will take us through some strategies to:

· Make complex ideas more understandable and relatable to your audience.

· Increase engagement and keep their attention

· Build trust by sharing authentic stories that demonstrate your values and capabilities.

Join us to transform your big vision into stories that grab attention.

Dana Sather Robinson

Dana is an angel investor, pitch trainer and creator of the Pitch 4 Impact Framework. As a professional presentation skills trainer, she understands how to help clients communicate with impact, clarity and authenticity. Dana is an active member on the board of E8 Angels, an innovative cleantech angel investing group. The Pitch4Impact program was created from two perspectives, as an investor and as a trainer of presentation skills. Dana emphasizes how to make the most of your own natural style to be memorable and authentic. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dana-sather-robinson/