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The DARE podcast welcomes Elsy Dinvil, founder of the successful Portland-based food startup Creole Me Up. Originally from Jérémie, Haiti, Elsy came to America on a scholarship to study Food Science Technology. After a long arduous process, she founded her successful company here in Portland and recently completed her MBA.
Recently published a book, Cooking With My Mother, which is filled with over 100 easy-to-follow popular Haitian recipes.

The DARE show welcomes Anya Cheng, founder and CEO of ⁠Taelor⁠, a unique menswear company that is on a tear in 2025! Anya has an amazing personal history at Facebook, EBay, Target and other leading consumer-focused companies. Now with her launch of Taelor, she's bringing rented menswear to the masses.

We also have special discounts on Taelor for DARE listeners!

⁠Here's 30% off your first month⁠ with code: Dare30.

Brought to you by the Oregon Entrepreneur's Network (⁠OEN⁠) and ⁠Darwoft⁠.

DARE is happy to welcome Tyler Dunagin, CEO of Turnserv. Tyler has a unique entrepreneurial journey, and he's now operating a multi-brand business that focuses on multiple innovative home improvement product lines, including LiquidLiner. In the past few years he's had over 3 brands do a million + dollars within less than 18 months. He was nominated as UI’s Entrepreneur of the year. Tyler had a lot to teach us about how structure, systems, culture, and fundraising.

Rick Turoczy is the Co-Founder of Built Oregon and creator of the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE). Now, for our first episode of the new year, with our new partners the Oregon Entrepreneur's Network, we are happy to welcome Rick back to the DARE show!

In this special episode, on the day of his new PIE event, we talk about how the startup scene in Portland has changed and how the next generation of startup leaders will make an impact in the Pacific Northwest, and -- perhaps -- what's next for PIE and Rick!

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The DARE show is brought to you by Darwoft and the ⁠Oregon Entrepreneur's Network⁠,

DARE's last episode of 2024 is a fascinating interview with marketing entrepreneur Nikita Byakadarov, founder of Maildoso. The company is a sales SaaS currently doing $3M in revenue, and is deep in the email deliverability and cold email business. Nikita previously failed at 7 startups before finding Maildoso, and he speaks eloquently about building a bootstrapped startup, customer acquisition practices and how to build your marketing for success.

DARE welcomes Asim Razzaq of Yotascale. Asim founded Yotascale to deliver real savings and scalable efficiency in public cloud management systems. He's had great success with Yotascale, and brings to the team his past experience building the PayPal cloud infrastructure and scaling the PayPal Developer Platform from zero to a billion dollars in payments volume.

Sheel Tyle is the co-founder of Collective Global, a firm that reimagines the way premier institutions access venture. Collective Global creates strategic partnerships with venture managers and founders, serving as a bridge between the innovation economy and sophisticated institutional investors. The firm combines a first-of-its-kind dedicated venture GP stakes platform (“Elevate”), an early-stage venture strategy (“Amplo”), and an opportunistic venture mandate (“Tactica”).

Patricia "Shu" Bouisset is a leader in technology and media. She's the former director of Governance, Risk and Compliance at Paramount and is current President of the Atlanta Chapter of Latinas in Tech. The Dare show is happy to welcome this fantastic entrepreneurial leader to our show today.

Stefan Harrigan manages the Metro Atlanta Chamber's trade and investment initiatives, working with foreign-owned enterprises looking to expand to the U.S. and supporting Atlanta's homegrown firms with their internationalization. He is passionate about showcasing what makes Atlanta one of the most exciting and compelling places to do business while helping firms navigate some of their most consequential internationalization decisions.

Last spring, the DARE team talked to David Ngene, CEO of the new startup Pacmodo. Today, we re-visit the Pacmodo team to hear about all of their accomplishments over the past year. Together, we celebrate their amazing success with a Kickstarter campaign, products in early production and a new approach to the world of modular packs.