Oregonian: For starters, Portland area getting better

More programs are offering funds, advice to help new companies get off the ground

BY JONATHAN BRINCKMAN

The change signals the metro area's increasingly diversified and innovative economy, expert observers say. But, they add, the region has a long way to go before it ranks among the nation's best cities to start a business.

Governments, universities or other nonprofit organizations finance incubators to help new companies survive, although the two newest metro-area incubators are for-profits seeking a fee or an equity stake.

Some incubators only offer guidance, advising young companies on, say, creating a business plan, marketing products or raising money. Others offer cheap rent and a place for people to share ideas. Successful startups generally graduate after two or three years and go out on their own.

Portland has not made it onto the national map of the best places to start a company, said Steve Morris, executive director of the Open Technology Business Center, a Beaverton incubator formed in 2005 that has 15 companies. For one thing, the metro area's take of venture-capital investing -- a common source of startup capital -- is nominal...[Full Article]

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Posted Wed, 02/27/2008 - 9:31am.

Quit kicking nusinesses out!

Submitted by jim karlock on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 2:34am.

Worried about jobs?

Why not start by NOT displacing 105 businesses to build the Milwaukee toy train (a toy costs too much, does too little.)

Then follow up by NOT putting more condo blocks in the Eastside Industrial district. They will only drive up rents and drive out more businesses.

Don’t forget that, on avenge, business pay more in taxes than they consume in services, so they help keep our taxes low.

Then take that $700 MILLION local match money you are planning to spend on the Milwaukee toy train and put $100 million into adding a pair of lanes to McLaughlin. That will relieve more congestion than that whole $1400 Million MAX line. $200 million of the leftover can build a new Sellwood bridge, perhaps somewhere upstream connecting to hwy 224. Well, that leaves about $400 million to add a pair of lanes to Lake Oswego to solve that bottleneck. Now we have about $300 million left - where to use that to improve people’s lives?

Admittedly the above has the disadvantage of not feeding MILLION$$$ to local developers, rail hucksters and to the So What, that money pit monument to idiotic smart growth planner’s wet dreams.

Have you heard the latest scheme? - they want to put the toy train tracks 14 FEET above ground level, so that they can build elevated, walkable streets above those nasty cars at ground level. (At least it will keep the rain and snow off of the cars. And make walking more comfortable down with those nasty cars - where there will actually be eyes on the street.)

Thanks
JK

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Numara taşınabilirliği,

Submitted by Numara taşınabilirliği on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 12:55am.

Numara taşınabilirliği, cep telefonu kullanıcılarının mevcut numaralarını aynen koruyarak hizmet aldıkları operatörü özgürce değiştirebilmeleridir. Bu şekilde kullanıcılar operatörünü değiştirdiklerinde kullandıkları numara 11 hane olarak bütünüyle aynı kalacağından, o döneme kadar kendilerine mevcut numaralarından ulaşmış olan kişiler aynı şekilde ulaşmaya devam edebileceklerdir.Numara taşıma Böylece kullanıcılar operatörlerini değiştirdiklerinde kendilerine ulaşmalarını istedikleri kişilere yeni bir numaralarını bildirmek durumunda kalmayacaklardır.

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