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Hosted by Rick Turoczy · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 38 episodes
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Interviews with startup founders and early stage employees in Oregon and Southwest Washington
Rick Turoczy hosts Startup Stories with Silicon Florist, a business show with 38 episodes published.
Angel Medina, the founder of TODOS Media and cofounder of Republica & Co, joins me to discuss her journey from the culinary world to building a cinematic media platform. Angelina shares how her background in Mexican cult
Patrick is the CEO and cofounder of ViddyScribe — one-click audio description in 52 languages, plus a realtime version for live YouTube — and we go from his LA video-agency days to why he moved to Portland and fell into
Building a startup mindset is essential for navigating the uncertainty of launching a new venture. Learn how self-belief impacts success. Regan Delaney, founder of Capfora, joins us to discuss the role of optimism in the
Transcribbit is an application designed to support students by transcribing lectures and allowing for more accessible teacher-student communication. Born out of the digital learning era, Transcribbit brings the flexibili
Every parent knows the moment: your kid comes home with a scrap of paper — a drawing, a name, a phone number — that basically says "let's hang out," and you're standing there thinking, I don't know this kid, I don't know
Every parent knows the moment: your kid comes home with a scrap of paper — a drawing, a name, a phone number — that basically says "let's hang out," and you're standing there thinking, I don't know this kid, I don't know
Lee Harding calls Proxylity "a weird little company here in Portland that does serverless UDP" — and by the end of this conversation, you'll understand why that's a bigger deal than it sounds. The web runs on HTTP, the t
Lee Harding calls Proxylity "a weird little company here in Portland that does serverless UDP" — and by the end of this conversation, you'll understand why that's a bigger deal than it sounds. The web runs on HTTP, the t
Conello founder Kyra Boveda was a remote software engineer who'd sometimes log off at the end of the day and realize she hadn't had a single real conversation with anyone. It can be a lonely way to work. So she started t
Conello founder Kyra Boveda was a remote software engineer who'd sometimes log off at the end of the day and realize she hadn't had a single real conversation with anyone. It can be a lonely way to work. So she started t
Ever catch yourself wondering where your people are, which corners of town actually feel like yours, where the third spaces and the good local food and the ways to pitch in even live…? Finding all of that organically can
Ever catch yourself wondering where your people are, which corners of town actually feel like yours, where the third spaces and the good local food and the ways to pitch in even live…? Finding all of that organically can
Tellagence has been working on AI for 15 years. Matt Hixson co-founded Tellagence in Portland in 2011 — back when Twitter was still called Twitter and "we do AI" got you weird looks instead of a meeting. Fifteen years la
Allegory is an AI-native platform that helps match grantees to the right opportunities, drafts proposals with an agent system built on Cloudflare's Launchpad, and reduces the post-award reporting overhead for both grante
Sam Titus, CEO and co-founder of DocCron, discusses how their trucking fintech company leverages "artificial intelligence" to identify additional revenue from existing trips. This highlights a significant advancement in
David Bynum spent a decade in footwear product design watching how a few component swaps could spin a shoe into a whole new product. Then COVID hit, he started tinkering, and Switchkraft was born — a Portland company mak
It's not all AI for startups. UrbanForm founder Quang Truong on leaving architecture to automate zoning for cities, why technical advantages are disappearing in the age of AI, and why the founders who win next will be th
Susan Bladholm has spent eight and a half years trying to put an electric passenger ferry on the Willamette River. Everyone says it's a no-brainer. Nobody's funding it. In this conversation, the founder of Friends of Fro
A conversation with Kabir Bhatia, CEO and co-founder of Hello Everyday — a startup creating a graceful solution for aging in place safely. Hello Everyday makes a small device that plugs into a wall outlet. No buttons, no
Matti Neustadt, Chief Executive Officer of V4 Final, shares valuable entrepreneurship insights. She emphasizes the critical need for startups to deeply understand customer problems. This starter story is a must-watch for
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Startup Stories with Silicon Florist is hosted by Rick Turoczy. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 38 episodes.
Startup Stories with Silicon Florist has published 38 episodes.
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