Travis Cannon
An engineer with an MBA and a passion for entrepreneurship.

ProductCamp Portland is an “unconference” event, intended for product managers, product marketers and other product team members, to increase skills and knowledge, to build professional relationships, and to provide greater recognition of product management as a critical profession for product and company success. During the event a series of...

For all event details, visit portland.startupweekend.org Thanks! Startup Weekend Crew   Refund Policy:  No refunds will be granted within 7 days of the event if food and drink have already been ordered. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. About Startup Weekend: Startup Weekends are 54-hour events designed to...

The Software Association of Oregon is hosting a second Ignite event on March 15th. Don't miss your chance to be a part of this entertaining evening. Submit your topic today! (Deadline to submit proposals is February 15, 2012)

As a speaker, you'll land a platform that challenges not only the way you present your ideas, but grants you...

Executing on an idea is hard. Making sure you're correctly moving forward on the idea is even harder. At core of every smart decision is the intersection of four major themes: Data, Culture, Networks, and People.

This talk will motivate this belief with data and epic tales about Etsy.com, OurShelf, and Tutorspree, leaving you with a...

Ignite Portland is an exciting, fast-paced, night of presentations where people can share their passions and burning ideas. The rules are fairly simple: 20 sides x 15 seconds per slide (auto-advancing) = 5 minutes of awesome. Presentations can be on nearly any topic, so long as they can teach, enlighten, or inspire us.

Come join fellow Portland Startup Weekend Alumni for our second monthly happy hour! This time we'll be in Northwest Portland at Qumiby's. They have offered special happy hour pricing for PDXSW alumni during the event. Come join for drinks, food and fun!

Come to the Lucky Lab (915 SE Hawthorne Blvd) at 7pm on Thursday Dec 1st for our very first Portland Startup Weekend Happy Hour! Plan on catching up with friends you met at SW, share what you have been up to recently, and provide encouragement for those that are moving forward with their SW companies.

We'll try to get a reserved section, but...

Meet innovative entrepreneurs, engineers, students and scientists. Companies pitch on the BIG stage. Interactive product demos. Tour PSU’s 40,000 SF business incubator & brand new wet labs. 20+ technology, bioscience and cleantech companies.

Join us on November 8th for a recap of all of the progress we've been making! Hear about our latest milestones on the Mentor Matching Software, the LinkedIn Group, and Roundtable Series. Find out what's on the agenda for the Software Summit, and maybe you'll meet the mentor you've been looking for!

I'm teaming up with the Portland Lean Startup Circle and the Portland Incubator Experiment! Please go RSVP on the Meetup page here for a chance to win a book: http://www.meetup.com/PDX-Lean-Startup-Circle/events/39610192/

Round 3 of the software build for the PDX11 Mentor Network! Join Portland's top coders and network leaders, and put your fingerprints on the PDX11 Mentor Matching software. Hosted by Puppet Labs, and refreshments provided.

Urban Airship invites you to come meet Foundry Group co-founders Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson as we celebrate the launch of their newest venture, the release of Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist.
Join the discussion as Rick Turoczy, of siliconflorist.com and PIE, talks one-on-one with Brad and Jason about their...

After a long summer break, I'm pleased to announce Update Portland will be returning October 27th with stories of disasters and near misses from PHPFog, Threadless, and Urban Airship.

The meeting will begin at 6pm at PIE, and beer will be provided. Please RSVP! Looking forward to seeing you there!

Join the Portland Development Commission, the Software Association of Oregon and the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network to celebrate recent startup success, innovative initiatives and the opportunity to network with entrepreneurs and mentors. @Large Films in Portland's Central Eastside will be hosting with food and drinks provided by Sizzle Pie,...

Join us for an evening of education and interaction around the critical topic of the Backpocket COO - How To Double Your Revenues & Profits In 3 Years Or Less. We will be led through a discussion by one of the most well respected and motivating speakers on the West Coast and the originator of the Backpocket COO, Cameron Herold.

Cameron will...

After a summer packed with activity and progress, the PDX11 Mentor Network is convening for a general meeting. Agenda includes updates on software build, community survey results, new approaches to events, and upcoming milestones. For newcomers there will also be a brief overview of the PDX11 initiatives and the other networks. Please join us for...

Want to rub shoulders with some of the coolest coders and most sought after mentors in Portland? Come join us for the second PDX11 Mentor Network Code Sprint, hosted by Collective Agency. The first code sprint produced a viable minimum product - come put your fingerprint on what will become the engine for the Mentor Network's matching...

If you had just five minutes to showcase your cutting-edge products, technologies, or methodologies, what would you say? What if you were forced to present those ideas with 20 PowerPoint slides that each rotated automatically after 15 seconds?

The Software Association of Oregon is sponsoring an Ignite event on September 15th. As a speaker,...

By popular demand, the PDX11 Mentor Network is kicking off a series of topic specific roundtables facilitated by Oregon-based industry leaders. This is the first in a series, and will be facilitated by serial entrepreneur Richard Lazar. Find out more by joining our LinkedIn Group...

US Bank - Burnside conference room
This is your opportunity to provide feedback on what a mentor matching site should do, and how it will be built.

TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is call TEDxPortland, where x=independently organized TED event. At our TEDxPortland event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.

Demolicious is going mobile with the great demos showing off the excellent work of your fellow Portlanders. The event will be held at Urban Airship as part of Mobile Portland and is co-hosted by Silicon Florist and Pie.

Celebrate seed capital in Oregon!   Portland Seed Fund managers Angela Jackson and Jim Huston declare the Fund open for business to entrepreneurs. Learn how to apply, what to expect, and likely types of investments.   Special guests Carwoo and Cloudkick Hear from these rockstar Oregon expat companies who once flew south in search of capital and...

PDX Lean Startup Circle and Urban Airship, Inc. welcomes Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup methodology. Eric is the author of the popular blog Startup Lessons Learned and the creator of the Lean Startup methodology. He co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU, his third startup, which has today has over 40 million users and 2009 revenue over...