WEEKLY THOUGHTS

Here is something that caught our eye this week: Rise of the Best Back in 2015, we heard about AOL co-founder Steve Case’s Rise of the Rest tour when it stopped in Portland to hear local entrepreneurs pitch their companies in hopes of raising investment capital. As we have since learned, the Portland event was one of many. To date, the group has organized 6 tours, held pitch competitions in 33 cities, and invested at least $500,000 in local startups on each trip. The underlying goal of these tours is to promote entrepreneurship in areas traditionally overlooked by venture capital