The Small Business Development Center and souk have come together to further support Portland's small business community. Bridget Benton, a SBDC counselor, now regularly holds one hour, free!, sessions at souk in Old Town Chinatown, thereby establishing a convenient presence in downtown for those sole proprietors, small businesses and entrepreneurial trailblazers. Their other location is in the Lloyd Center.

Sign up for one hour counseling session at souk by calling 503.517.6900

Future dates available: April 6,8,20,22,27,& 29 1-5pm

The Small Business Development Center and souk have come together to further support Portland's small business community. Bridget Benton, a SBDC counselor, now regularly holds one hour, free!, sessions at souk in Old Town Chinatown, thereby establishing a convenient presence in downtown for those sole proprietors, small businesses and entrepreneurial trailblazers. Their other location is in the Lloyd Center.

Sign up for one hour counseling session at souk by calling 503.517.6900

Future dates available: April 6,8,20,22,27,& 29 1-5pm

Lewis & Clark's Small Business Legal Clinic presents this seminar on Intellectual Property, http://www.law.lclark.edu/org/sblc/.

Leading intellectual property attorneys from Stoel Rives LLP will address the following subjects: •What are copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and patents? •Why is intellectual property valuable to my business? •How do I obtain these valuable business assets? •When should I register a copyright or trademark? •How do I protect my trade secrets? •What can be patented?

4:00 to 4:15 Registration 4:15 to 5:45 Presentation 5:45 to 6:45 Questions and Answers 6:45 to 7:00 Adjourn

RSVP to: Becka 503-768-6940

Seminar Sponsored by souk Ticket Info: Cost: $25.00, scholarships available

The Small Business Development Center and souk have come together to further support Portland's small business community. Bridget Benton, a SBDC counselor, now regularly holds one hour, free!, sessions at souk in Old Town Chinatown, thereby establishing a convenient presence in downtown for those sole proprietors, small businesses and entrepreneurial trailblazers. Their other location is in the Lloyd Center.

Sign up for one hour counseling session at souk by calling 503.517.6900

Future dates available: April 6,8,20,22,27,& 29 1-5pm

The Small Business Development Center and souk have come together to further support Portland's small business community. Bridget Benton, a SBDC counselor, now regularly holds one hour, free!, sessions at souk in Old Town Chinatown, thereby establishing a convenient presence in downtown for those sole proprietors, small businesses and entrepreneurial trailblazers. Their other location is in the Lloyd Center.

Sign up for one hour counseling session at souk by calling 503.517.6900

Future dates available: April 6,8,20,22,27,& 29 1-5pm

The Small Business Development Center and souk have come together to further support Portland's small business community. Bridget Benton, a SBDC counselor, now regularly holds one hour, free!, sessions at souk in Old Town Chinatown, thereby establishing a convenient presence in downtown for those sole proprietors, small businesses and entrepreneurial trailblazers. Their other location is in the Lloyd Center.

Sign up for one hour counseling session at souk by calling 503.517.6900

Future dates available: April 6,8,20,22,27,& 29 1-5pm

Speed Networking to learn about other local groups

If you are looking for new networking opportunities in Portland, join us on April 28th at souk.

One stop shopping! Come find out what sorts of groups exist in Portland. Don't bother with a google search and forget sifting through the 40 thousand results. Just show up and see over a dozen local organizations speak briefly about what their group has to offer. After the presentations you will have a chance to speak face to face with the people that piqued your interest.

Last year we had over 100 attendees and the opportunity for as much networking as you could handle in one night. Everyone will get a master resource list of all the groups represented and contact info - in case you didn't get to talk with everyone you wanted to.

We will have pizza and beverages on hand to keep you going strong through the evening.

$5 at the door to eat, drink and meet.

Please RSVP to [email protected] , however you can come even if you don't:

A short list of some of the groups that will be represented: Springboard Innovation Ladies Who Launch Pdxfx Connectpdx City Club New Leaders Green Drinks YWSE Leadership Portland AIGA (DMob) Self-Employed Creative Professionals OEN World Affairs Council Young Professionals Ticket Info: $5

The Small Business Development Center and souk have come together to further support Portland's small business community. Bridget Benton, a SBDC counselor, now regularly holds one hour, free!, sessions at souk in Old Town Chinatown, thereby establishing a convenient presence in downtown for those sole proprietors, small businesses and entrepreneurial trailblazers. Their other location is in the Lloyd Center.

Sign up for one hour counseling session at souk by calling 503.517.6900

Future dates available: April 6,8,20,22,27,& 29 1-5pm

3BY10 is a monthly presentation and networking event, in which three creative professionals or students from the Portland area get ten minutes each to present a recent project, discuss a trend, or just talk about the local design scene. Talks are followed by a round table discussion and social hour at a nearby lounge. Admission is always free.

  This month’s, We're moving the entire event to the souk, allowing us access to their beautiful space and projection facilities. The schedule will also include a short intermission, and Q&A after each speaker, rather than clustered at the end. Come join us!

  6:00p - First two presenters + Q&A
  6:30p - Intermission
  6:40p - Third presenter + Q&A
  7:00p - Social hour

  This month’s presenters:

  Graeme Wagoner - Freelance Industrial Designer
  Aaron Carlsson - Freelance Industrial Designer
  Ryan Russell - Manager of McAfee Design Studio

  Our generous sponsor is souk.

  Want to be a 3BY10 presenter? Contact Event Coordinator Carl Alviani (carl.alviani -at- gmail), and be sure to include your name, current job, and a brief summary of the talk you’d like to give.

Join us at Souk for the Portland PreDevCamp. PreDevCamp is for current and aspiring developers to gather and learn to program on the MojoSDK for the WebOS, but specifically the Palm Pre.

Please register at http://portland.predevcamp.org/registration/ and get ready for the event! If you already have programming experience then email me at [email protected] and we will get you set up as a helper!

A special thanks for Souk for the gathering place and discounts! They have been very kind and easy to work with! Visit their website at http://www.soukllc.com/

We've had lots of requests for Apache CouchDB Training in Portland, so we'll be doing a two day training at souk in downtown Portland.

Day one of the of CouchDB training course provides an introduction to using and working with CouchDB, covering the key aspects of interacting with CouchDB, essential tools for working with CouchDB, the core API, document design, views, replication, bulk documents and document validation.

On day two of CouchDB training you will focus on view patterns and queries and how to format documents and views from your database using the built-in list and show functionality. You will also learn about advanced techniques for working with CouchDB data, from consuming the changes feed, creating replication filters, document update handlers and database and document security.

This is a fantastic opportunity if you're a developer, or if you are a manager looking to get your team trained.

email us at [email protected] if you have any questions!

--Couchbase