Business Portland News & Event Round Up, August 9

Recent business stories of note:

• How Portland got its groove back
  The city where “young people go to retire” is having an economic renaissance, with lessons for the rest of the country

• Portland No. 15 on the list of top 50 cities for global trade
  Often recognized as the greenest U.S. city, Portland is a top exporter of wood products, accounting for $301 million of its $18.5 billion export volume

• What we can learn from Portland
  The Clean Energy Works Oregon program has made more than 900 homes energy efficient - cutting five million pounds of carbon pollution and generating $12 million for the local economy

• Feeling acquisitive: Cvent’s $10 Million acquisition of CrowdCompass
  CrowdCompass will remain in its home city (Portland in its case), rather than relocating to Cvent’s Richmond, Virginia headquarters

• Portland tech startup hosts business classes
  What iTunes is to music, Portland’s Open Sesame hopes to be the marketplace for e-learning

• Microsoft temp store to hit Portland
  Microsoft plans to "pop up" this October in Portland

• New Relic quadruples Portland office space in new lease
  San Francisco web technology firm New Relic will move into 19,482 square feet in the US Bancorp Tower, quadrupling its office space in Portland

• The geography of America's music scenes
  Portland comes in at No. 6

• Portland entrepreneur seeks second round of funding for running brand Skora
  Sypniewski moved the company to Portland because of its pool of running shoe company veterans

• With federal building project ending, downtown office market opens up
  Portland’s downtown office market has been so tight for so long it’s a little hard to imagine what’s about to happen

• Chase gives city $50K for neighborhood programs
  J.P. Morgan Chase’s Portland unit has become the first corporate sponsor of a city neighborhood development project

• Portland had 18 locally owned businesses open in July
  In July, locals once again opened more restaurants and cafes than they did any other business or service

• Portland retailers flourish in rent-free, collaborative environment
  There’s something exceptional happening in the old Pacific Hardware and Steel building on NW Nicolai Street

• An interview with Jessie Burke, owner of Posies Bakery and Café
  Crown jewel of Nopo, Kenton is experiencing an economic revival as new small businesses open up shop

• In Kenton, little stretch of North Willis Boulevard becoming a big thing
  Across Portland, developers, entrepreneurs and artisans have seen the same potential in the same kind of dusty, beaten-up streets

• Looking for a place to get outside: The 2012 Portland Patio Guide
  Looking to experience the great outdoors of the Pacific Northwest within city limits?

• Tasty n Sons two?
  Rumors have been flying all week that Tasty n Sons owner John Gorham is planning a second location of his wildly popular North Portland brunch spot

• How small businesses can take advantage of mobile benefits
  As Main Street begins to regain its steam, small businesses alike have many opportunities to increase their digital marketing efforts

• The inventor of the first programmable computer lives in Portland
  Do things that have never been done before

Some events of note:

• SEMPDX’s Rooftop Networking Party is August 14

• The Seaport Celebration is August 18

• The Oregon Small Business Forum is August 21

• The 42nd Avenue Street Fair is August 26

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