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BendTECH Virtual Reality Tour
With the help of Cascade Virtual Reality Tours, BendTECH now has a 360 space tour! Check out the video and let us know what you think! https://www.cascade.tours/bendtech/#VR Cascade Virtual Reality Tours brings the latest in Virtual Reality technology to your location here in Central Oregon. With their tech, you can navigate different surroundings as if…
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BendTECH Startup Resource Fair: Everything You Need to Start a Biz – In One Place
BendTECH Coworking presents the first-annual Startup Resource Fair, scheduled for Wednesday, May 24 at the 1001 Tech Center. This fun-filled event puts all the resources you need to start or grow a business in one location. Event Exhibitors The fair features two dozen exhibitors, including: Venture Capital, Angel Funds and Banks Business/Founder Mentor Groups…
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Tech Alliance Rebrands as BendTECH
The Tech Alliance of Central Oregon, the nonprofit charged with developing and supporting Bend’s early-stage entrepreneurial ecosystem, has rebranded as Bend Technology Entrepreneurial and Coworking Hub (BendTECH). The name matches the noprofit’s flagship coworking space, BendTECH, and better reflects its mission. “There’s a real need for support, resources, connection and events that help entrepreneurs go…
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Interested in Joining Us at BendTECH Coworking?
We would love to have you! There is currently a waiting list for both offices and dedicated desks, with some availability possible soon. To be contacted for the next opening, please share some info here about what you’re looking for, and we will contact you. Right now our web site here is evolving to focus just…
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Tech Talk Happy Hour, Tuesday 3/7
Please mark your calendars and register for the first Talk Tech Happy Hour brought to you by our friends at the Technology Association of Oregon. This month we are featuring Machine Learning Primer by Matt Abrams on Tuesday, March 7th. We will be meeting in Thump, in the Tech Center. Matt Abrams, Investment Partner at Seven Peaks Ventures, has 20 years…
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Maps + Computers + Beer = MapNight
Join us for MapNight @ BendTECH 11/18 5pm, a local event for GIS Day, a global celebration! What is GIS? Unless you are kicking it old school with a handwritten dead-tree map, most of the maps we use today on smartphones, computers, and even printed, are a result of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). We can use a GIS like Google Maps to find our way around, but it can do much more. Besides being a killer data visualization tool, GIS basically makes the world a complex quilt of data that can be layered, explored, analyzed, and put to good use in decision making and planning. A spectrum of users from students to journalists, firefighters, business leaders, oceanographers, and many more use GIS every day, working towards a better…
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BendTECH Coworking Evolves, Tech Talk This Week
The first question people ask when you arrive in Central Oregon is “what do you do?” because it’s somewhat of a coup to figure out how to live in this singularly beautiful, active, and just urban enough town. Bend is well on it’s way to becoming a mecca for independent workers and startups because many of the…
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The BendTECH Blog Becomes StartupBend
We have a big announcement that involves a little startup, well, started by us. As of today, our blog will now be StartupBend. For the past year, we’ve been working hard to tell the world about both the burgeoning tech and startup community in this most favorite place we call home. Beyond giving us the…
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6th Annual BVC unConference Adds Speed Networking Event
If you’ve been craving to connect with people in the outdoor, bio-science, tech, brewing, or food & beverage industries, you’ll want to take part in our new unConference event: speed networking sponsored by OSU Cascades. Or if you’re trying to win a wild-card concept spot at the Bend Venture Conference (a $15k award) then this is…
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StartupBend
- The Annual BendTECH Startup Resource Fair Returns 6/6 May 21, 2019FBendTECH Coworking presents the third annual Startup Resource Fair, scheduled for 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 6, […]Kelly Kearsley
- Bend Sextech Startup Lora DiCarlo Secures $2 million in Funding AND Gets Its CES Award Back! That’s a Day! May 8, 2019You know when you want to tell someone two exciting things at once and it’s hard to decide which one […]Kelly Kearsley
- One Tech Meetup to Rule Them All: Cool People + Beer + Prizes! April 29, 2019BendTECH is hosting the second annual One Tech Meetup to Rule Them All, a meetup of all the meetup groups. […]Kelly Kearsley
- Check Out Adventure Guru’s Video-Based Adventure Map April 25, 2019The amount of information about all the amazing places you could visit is a bit of a blessing and curse. […]Kelly Kearsley
- Don’t Miss Thursday’s PubTalk! Startups, Tea, Trademark Protection Tips, and Tots. April 24, 2019This month’s PubTalk has something for everyone–a pitch from an exciting Bend startup, updates from your favorite tea company, resources […]Kelly Kearsley