“So our company, #textalawyer, won Founders Live last night!!!  My co-founder @KatiaAlcantwood (twitter) won the hearts and minds of the crowd.  A great event - highly recommended.”

“I wanted to share a link to a photo from a headshot session I did recently with a client who contacted me through pdx startups! https://www.instagram.com/p/BofduQnBG-h/?taken-by=chriskorsak”

“Went very well - got great help for a quick project!”

“Excellent support & response from the community! I would like to thank PDX Startups on behalf of MobileFirst Applications team. ”

“Excellent support from the community.”

“We have officially filled out warehouse with an amazing start up! Thanks to this forum an old contact reached out to us to get the wheels turning! Thanks Portland Start Up Switchboard!”

“Current project includes launching a Rezdy tour platform that includes tour videos of historic sites, as well as a dozen history videos using commons video and photos.  Style is a reprise of newsreels.”

“I had a question about how to deal with PII and the Portland Startups community totally came through for me! Jesse and I met for a couple of hours and I learned a ton!”

“A few people reached out and one in particular had a nearly mirror image post of his own, so he and I will probably partner up.”

“Numerous folks reached out to offer internship possibilities — the generosity was overwhelming. My daughter ended up with an internship that was a great fit that happened to come via another channel, but it just as easily might have been one of the opportunities offered by people from Portland Startups. Thank you everyone!”

“Hi all, I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who participated in my offer in April! I got a great response from this community and was able to photograph some very nice people :)”

“Thanks Portland Startup community! We got lots of great candidates and we were thrilled to offer a position to one of the applicants. We will definitely use Switchboard again!”

“Thank you PDX Switchboard!    I have had several individuals reach out to me over the past two weeks and am excited to see where their fundraising efforts will take them over the coming months. As a fundraising tool built around matching donations GiveMore will be able to help these individuals and their causes connect with their audience and establish greater buy in.  For more info, take a look at www.givemore.co and feel free to reach out to me personally - nathan@givemore.co”

“Üma is a rockstar, she did a bang up job on the front page in no time. ”

“Within just a couple of hours, I'd found a suitable candidate (Nathan Sinton, whose services I also recommend) to help me with my task. Two days later, it was completed, much to my satisfaction. Thanks, switchboard!”

“The Norse Hall has a variety of reasonably priced rooms with enough lead time (~3 months or more).”

“I got several responses, two that resulted in actually meeting and talking things through.  One of those looks very promising, and one's still up in the air.  It's an intense thing, looking for a cofounder, and I'm very grateful to the Switchboard for helping out with it.”

“And recently made it to news for Pregmo App on Huffpost and Dailymail (Ref. News - https://goo.gl/oyy9Ez). ”

“Thanks so much for the helpful advice everyone! I've set up a couple of appointments and learned a ton already.”

“We're just now starting the interview process. But we've got over 10 professionals interested in key positions in the company. Fingers crossed that things align and we grow.”