Rick Turoczy
More than mildly obsessed with the Portland, Oregon, startup scene
Rick Turoczy has been working in high-tech marketing communications jobs in the Portland area for more than 16 years. Out of pure dumb luck, he happened to sit up in bed at 2 AM one night in 2007 with the inspiration to start Silicon Florist, a blog about Portland startups in the Web, Mobile, and Open Source scenes. Since then, he’s chatted with The Oregonian a bunch of times, appeared on local television and radio, made a brief appearance on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, written for one of the top tech blogs in the world, garnered bylines in The New York Times, spoken and judged startups at SXSW, been named to the Portland Business Journal’s “40 under 40,” been elected to the board of the Software Association of Oregon, advised the City of Portland and the Portland Development Commission, and launched a startup incubator with the help of Wieden+Kennedy, Target, Coca-Cola, Nike, and Google.
All because of a blog. Weird.