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Call for Applications and Recruiting Investors - OEN Angel Oregon 2009

sarenar — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:10:50 GMT

OEN's Angel Oregon is the nation's premier investor/entrepreneur matchmaking event. Angel Oregon brings together Oregon and SW Washington's brightest entrepreneurial talent with qualified angel investors. The top six companies who apply, including the OEN Seed Oregon PubTalk winner, will present at the OEN Angel Oregon conference on March 12th at the Governor Hotel. At the conference a final vote of the OEN Angel Oregon investment committee will take place. Two investment prizes will be awarded.

This must-attend event combines valuable networking, interesting presentations from emerging companies and an exciting competition for angel investment.

OEN is currently accepting applications. Click on the following link to learn more about how to apply .

OEN's Venture Northwest to be discussed in OPB's Think Out Loud help frame the discussion.

sarenar — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:47:57 GMT

OEN's Venture Northwest on Thursday, October 30 at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront Hotel will be host to OPB's Think Out Loud, hosted by Emily Harris.

She will be speaking with Gerry Langeler of OVP Venture Partners along with Emily Mendell, vice president of strategic affairs at the National Venture Capital Association and Arundeep Pradhan, director of technology and research collaborations at OHSU regarding entrepreneurship, innovation, the economy and how the investment future looks for Oregon entrepreneurs.

We would love to have the OEN community help frame the discussion. Visit this link to join the discussion. http://action.publicbroadcasting.net/opb/posts/list/1797812.page

OEN named as recipient of the Governors' Gold Award

sarenar — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:00:11 GMT

Oregon Entrepreneurs Network has been named as the recipient for the 2008 Governors' Gold Awards in the category honoring: Organization, Community, City or County.

This catgory recognizes organizations, communities, cities or counties that have inspired greatness through outsanding accomplishment, and extraordinary sevice to Oregonians on a local, regional, or statewide level.

The decision was made by Governors Kulongoski, Kitzhaber, Roberts, and Atiyeh to honor OEN for the organization's extraordinary contributions to the "greatness" of Oregon. OEN is is good company. Past winners in this category were Cycle Oregon (2007), The Oregon Food Bank (2006), The Oregon Shakespere Festival (2005), The Pendleton Round-up (2004) and Oregon Business Council (2003).

OEN will receive this award at The Governors' Gold Awards event that is being presented On October 4, 2008. The event is presented in cooperation with Special Olympics Oregon, the beneficiary of this event.