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May 07, 2025
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📌 What’s Inside:
⚡️ FLASH SALE 50% off May 25 ONLY
📅 STARTUP Week PDX 2025 Gets Bossy
🙀 WTF is AI ~ Your FREE Info Session
🤖 Building FemmeBot 1.0
📝 New blog: Update Your Default Settings
🔥 FLASH SALE: Late Stage Capitalism Fire Sale 🔥
Save the Date May 25, 2025 5am - 5pm PST ONE DAY ONLY Business 4 Good Business Strategy Services are 50%
Full Spring Cleaning for Your Business – Need to overhaul your business plan? Trouble shoot your customer journey? Move some piled up junk out of your boss up trajectory? We got you!
Business Audit –we will look at your overall business goals and what a digital presence needs to look like in this modern moment
Go To Market Strategy – This is so not your grandfather's marketing plan — it’s a high-touch, human forward strategy experience designed to help women founders confidently take their offer to market.
📅 Upcoming: Events You DO NOT Want to Miss
🧠 Free VIRTUAL Info Session:
WTF is AI & What Can It Do for You!
AI is everywhere — but what does it actually mean for your business?
This is a free, no-fluff session, where we’ll break down what AI is (no jargon!), what it can do for purpose-driven teams ~regardless of size ~ and how to use it / boss it kindly without losing your voice, values, or your sanity!
You’ll roll out of the Zoom room with:
A clear overview of what AI is and isn’t
Real-world examples from human focused orgs
A path to get started with no-code, values-aligned tools
Led by Business 4 Good, specialists in ethical, human-forward AI consulting.
🎟️ Free
📍 Online
🕒 Thursday May 28, 10am PST
👉🏾 RSVP Here
🤖 START UP Week PDX ‘25 - Gets Bossy!
Grab your good pen, update your cal & keep an eye on the updates on the shiny & NEW Community Events Listing by Business 4 Good bc #SWPDX25 is getting pretty cute, and by cute, we mean bossy!
💰 Girls Just Wanna Have Funds Happy Hour
🕒 TUESDAY May 13 430pm-730pm
A networking event bringing together powerhouse women in business, featuring collaborations with Portland Business Journal, Women to Women Network, Business 4 Good, Xcelerate Women, and PDX BizWomen Coalition.
Open to all. Parking sucks. Carpool!
🎟️ Free
📍Graybox ~ 107 SE Washington St. Suite 700 Central SE PDX
co hosted w. Xcelerate Women
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✍🏽How to Write Your 1st Check: Early Stage
🕒 WEDS May 14 @ 10am- 11:30am
An interactive panel guiding aspiring investors through the fundamentals of early-stage investing, covering topics like angel investing, venture capital, and more.
Meet our speakers:
Allie Persitz, 2X Founder & Forbes Council
Caroline Lewis, Managing Partner at Rogue Women
Angela Jackson, Portland Seed Fund
Melissa Freeman, Director of Capital Raising at Oregon Venture Fund
Rose Kaz, Moderator Founder Business 4 Good co-hosted w. Stella Foundation
🎟️ Free
📍 Google Portland ~ 555 SW Morrison St. Suite 500 Dwntwn PDX
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💡 Idea Talk: Perfect Your Pitch in a Lunch & Learn
🕒 WEDS May 14 @ 11:45am – 12:45pm
A focused lunch & learn session with TEDxPortland Coach Cathey , offering resources and methods to perfect your pitch. Lunch will be provided.
🎟️ Free
📍 Google Portland ~ 555 SW Morrison St. Suite 500 Dwntwn PDX
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💸 Mechanics of Fundraising for Founders
🕒 WEDS May 14 @ 1pm-2:30pm
An intro session for founders to seasoned entrepreneurs and investors, providing insights into various fundraising options like bootstrapping, grants, venture capital, and angel investors.
Meet our speakers:
Elizabeth Sheils, Co-founder of Roc Paper Coin & Portland 40Under40
Allie Persitz, 2X Founder & Forbes Council
Diane Fraiman, Voyager Capital
Callie Christensen - Co-founder of Slumberkins
Rose Kaz, - Moderator Founder Business 4 Good co-hosted w. Stella Foundation
🎟️ Free
📍 Google Portland ~ 555 SW Morrison St. Suite 500 Dwntwn PDX
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🚨 System Update in Progress:
AI’s Absolutely Memory Needs More Voices ~ Brings Yours!
A panel discussion featuring Women in AI, focusing on bias, authorship, and the importance of diverse voices in shaping AI systems. Includes a complimentary drink with ticket purchase.
Meet our speakers:
Rose Kaz - Moderator, Hostess & Founder of Business 4 Good
🎟️ $15 includes whiskey OR N/A drink & collaborative convo with industry leaders
📍 Westward Whiskey 65 SE Washington St. Central SE PDX
🎲 AI Ethics Weighted Dice ?
An AI 'Ask Me Anything' w. Scott Hanselman
Right after stepping off the TEDxPortland stage, Scott Hanselman and Rose Kaz (that's me!) shared a quickfire exchange about artificial intelligence, trust, and the often not so quiet ways systems shape our lives.
One metaphor Scott shared stuck: AI is like rolling weighted dice.
It hit—because it's simple, and it's true.
Scott Hanselman is a programmer, teacher and speaker who lives in Portland, Oregon. He is the VP of Developer Community at Microsoft. Scott works on .NET, Open Source and the Azure Cloud Developer Experience.
I'm so jazzed to be opening the conversation to be truly collaborative, because that's what I'm here to do!! Please join in this super collaborative AI conversation.
We’re gathering questions in advance—drop yours here. Add your technical, philosophical, speculative, or personal questions and we will work them into the AMA —we want to hear what’s on your mind!
🎟️ FREE
📍 Instrument 3529 N Williams Ave Portland, OR 3529 N Williams Ave, Portland, OR 97227
🤖 Leading Ladies Chat Bot is Building
Meet the Leading Ladies Large Language Model Build 1.0
She’s smart. She’s emotionally intelligent. And she didn’t crawl out of Silicon Valley — she’s being built from the wisdom of Women who’ve actually lived some life.
We’re training a large language model (LLM) using insights from a wildly diverse, participating, global group of women — across race, gender identity, class, ability, and lived experience — because the future of AI shouldn’t be filtered through the same five Stanford dudes and their coffee-stained hoodies.
At Business 4 Good, we’re on a mission to demystify tech and build tools that actually get it. Our Leading Ladies chatbot isn’t just another bot — she’s a humanist focused build using data informed by women with a sense of humor and a deep respect for nuance. No code required. Just real talk, real data, and a lot of curiosity.
What makes our build different?
Draws from diverse, representative data
Supports nuanced, contextual conversations
Offers insight designed to actually serve women in business
📝 From Our Blog: Update Your Default Settings
🧠 The More You Know….Default settings are rarely designed with equity in mind. Whether it’s your tech tools, your funding model, or your mindset—what’s “pre-selected” can quietly reinforce outdated systems.
Now’s the time to get intentional. Update your defaults. Rewrite what’s automatic.
🔍 Dive deeper into how default settings shape systems and behavior.
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Forward this email and build coalition together.
In solidarity,
Rose Kaz
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✨ The future of business is collaborative. And it’s woman-forward. Let’s go.
P.S. Please tell me… how you’re changing YOUR WORLD ! Hit reply or tag me with your insights—I’d love to hear what you’re building and know how I can support you!
