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Startup Portland is a community of entrepreneurs, investors, technologists and creative misfits who love building scalable companies in Portland, Maine. We are dedicated to strengthening Portland’s startup community and connecting the city to other startup hub cities around the world. The purpose of this website is to to uncover and communicate the critical mass of the city’s startup ecosystem.

Help demonstrate the critical mass of Portland’s startup ecosystem. Download the Startup Portland logo, add it to your website and link the logo back to startupportland.com. Together we’ll show the world that our small city has a dynamic critical mass of startup-obsessed people to rival our Beantown and Big Apple neighbors.

 

Who We Are

STARTUPS

RESOURCES – YOUTH

RESOURCES – BEGINNERS

RESOURCES – ADVANCED

RESOURCES – ONLINE

  • General Assembly – Online trainings related to technology, entrepreneurship and design.
  • RedMonk – Free developer-focused technology analysis.
  • Check our blog for recent posts by local entrepreneurs and startup enthusiasts.

LOCAL VC’S

COWORKING SPACES

SOCIAL GROUPS

 

Join Us

Fill out the form below to join our email list or to list a *startup or resource on our website. We’ll email you periodically about events and opportunities that appeal to creative, techy, entrepreneurial people like us. Like Startup Portland on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter too.

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*Also, if you’re an individual resource to Portland’s startup community, email us about contributing to the Startup Portland blog. We can’t get into listing every expert lawyer and consultant on our website, but we’d be happy to entertain your thoughts on our blog.

 

Events

Listed below are some upcoming startup-related events in Portland that we think you may find valuable and worthwhile. Please email us if we’re missing anything!

  • May 29, 2013
    • Stay Competitive with Google Analytics
      Starts: 1:00 pm
      Ends: May 29, 2013 - 3:00 pm
      Location: SCORE 100 Middle St.2nd FL Portland
      Description: The Google Analytics workshop with Nathan O’Leary will help you get the most from your traffic sources. Learn how to analyze your traffic and make sense out of the data you collect. With a few simple steps, you can have your Google Analytics up and running. Stay competitive by becoming proficient with this free tool.

      Don’t let the big words and industry speak intimidate you. Reporting is as easy once you know what direction you want the graphs to go in! Hint: Bounce Rate? You want to go down. Unique Visitors? You want to steadily increase. Make the most out of your traffic. Check out the topics we will be covering.

      Topics include:
      • Installing Google Analytics
      • What Do Your Results Mean
      • How to Analyze Traffic Source
      • How to Identify quality visitors
      • How to See Top Content on Your Website
      • Get The Most From Your Visitor Flow
      • How to Prepare for Event & E-commerce Tracking
      Already using WordPress? Bring your laptop and have Google Analytics up and running by the end of the workshop! This is a hands on immersive learning environment you can’t afford to miss.
  • May 30, 2013
    • The Big Stir
      Starts: 5:30 pm
      Ends: May 30, 2013 - 7:30 pm
      Location: Portland Masonic Temple, 415 Congress St, Portland
      Description: Announcing the Big Stir, a get together with PROPEL and 2 Degrees and the Mayor. Here are the deets... What do you think Portland needs? What would it take to make that happen? Who would you want to be involved? Come to the Masonic Temple on Thursday, May 30th for your chance to pitch ideas to Mayor Michael Brennan, meet other motivated Portlanders, find out about existing initiatives, and learn how you can take part in it all. We're classing it up from our usual Greendrinks events - so we even ordered some fancy food from Blue Elephant Catering, and we've also got a cash bar. This is a limited ticketed event and it is expected to sell out quickly. Tickets are $10 in advance and will be $15 at the door (if any are left). Buy your tickets today! More info here: http://www.portlandgreendrinks.com/
  • May 31, 2013
    • SMBME 46 – Effective Branding
      Starts: 7:30 am
      Ends: May 31, 2013 - 10:00 am
      Location: Portland Masonic Temple - 415 Congress Street - Portland, ME 04101
      Description: As our digital world evolves and grows, so does the sea of faces, names – and logos. Really making your mark has become more important than ever. When it comes to social media, users don’t regularly connect with you on your brand page or profile. They connect with you in that vast sea of status updates, promotions and more. You want to make sure they recognize you. This breakfast will focus on just that and much more.

      Zeke Callanan will moderate a panel of speakers who will give us the lowdown on everything you ever wanted to know about effectively (and legally) branding yourself, a product or your company. Marketing and branding consultant Ryan Thomas Shimala of More & Co. will walk us through the branding process - how it works and what it means. Local entrepreneur Tony Lewis will provide some valuable insight into the branding process and what it has meant to him. Heading up the legal end of things, trademark attorney Chelsea Callanan will talk a little trademark 101 with us.

      For details, link here: http://smbme46.eventbrite.com
  • June 1, 2013
  • June 4, 2013
    • MTI Portland Office Hours – Vanessa Frey
      Starts: 9:00 am
      Ends: June 4, 2013 - 4:00 pm
      Location: 30 Danforth Street, Suite 207, Portland
      Description: Vanessa Frey of the Business Innovation Program will be available to meet one-on-one to discuss funding opportunities for your tech-based business. Join the Maine Technology Institute (MTI) for its Portland Office Days the First Tuesday of every month at Hall Marketing. Contact Jessica Watson at jwatson@mainetechnology.org for an appointment.

View the full calendar here or subscribe via XML or ICAL. FYI, the easiest way add an event to our calendar invite startupportland@gmail.com to the event. Or just email us the info. Also, we’re noodling some ideas for new events to build community among the Portland startup community and startup communities in Boston and NY. If you have any ideas or want to help, let us know!

 

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