BendTECH Blog
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
- Meet Rupie at BendTECH’s Startup Founder’s Office Launch Party April 12, 2019BendTECH is hosting a little party this Tuesday to honor the first residents of the BendTECH Startup Founder’s Office. The […]Kelly Kearsley
- Sudara’s Big Move, Big Sale, and How You Can Support this Bend B-Corp March 18, 2019Sudara is making a big move this year — a literal move. Since its founding four years ago, the Bend-based […]Kelly Kearsley
- Can We Activate More Local Women to Be Startup Investors? Why That’s Important and What’s Next. March 15, 2019You’re likely familiar with the gender pay gap. Well, there’s also a very real and very large gender investment gap […]Kelly Kearsley
- Rupie Selected for First BendTECH Startup Founder’s Office March 13, 2019The first company to take up residence in BendTECH’s first-ever Startup Founder’s Office is Rupie, a platform that connects game developer […]Kelly Kearsley
- StartupBend Jobs: BendTECH Exec Director, Odysys Sales, Quantek Software Engineers and More February 20, 2019Job hunters, heads up: The jobs board has some interesting tech, sales and nonprofit positions posted. We’ll start with the […]Kelly Kearsley