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Reseeding Oregon’s Silicon Forest. 104 businesses trace roots to Tek

In a funky, postindustrial loft four flights above the Pearl District, longtime Intel engineer Andrew Muray is busy doing something his former colleagues at Oregon’s largest private employer seldom have: setting out on his own.

MIKE ROGOWAY

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104 businesses trace roots to Tek

For decades before Intel brought silicon to the Silicon Forest, Tektronix Inc. kept Oregon’s high-tech economy fertile. The Beaverton company has been Oregon’s anchor technology company since its founding in the 1940s, seeding the state with scores of new companies.

Tektronix’s business is rooted in equipment for testing the performance of electronic devices. The company, though, encouraged its engineers to experiment and invent. It offered technical support, production help and sometimes lab space to get new businesses off the ground. Other ideas, nurtured inside Tektronix, were later spun off into separate companies.

Full Story: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1179469654171390.xml&coll=7

(Many thanks to http://www.NASVF.org for passing these stories along. Russ)

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