Portland State Magazine Fall 2016

4 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE FALL 2016 Park Blocks Calling all Uber entrepreneurs SAMUEL BRACKEEN IV drives for Uber in Portland two or three days a week, but his real passion is Workout Bunnies LLC, a social network and app that he founded to connect people with fitness partners. The University’s Business Outreach Program is collaborating with Uber and Portland WeWork office space to help driver-entrepreneurs like Brackeen. Their joint effort, called UberEntrepreneur, includes business development workshops with Business Outreach staff, followed by a competition to win a $10,000 grant from Uber. Brackeen’s app was recently released for Android and iOS, and he plans to take part in the Uber grant competition. Portlanders may catch an Uber ride with him most Friday and Saturday nights. The draw of bigger cities IS PORTLAND really the place where young people go to retire? According to “Talent on the Move,” a new report from Portland State urban studies researchers, migration of the young and college-educated to the nation’s largest cities has surged by nearly 40 percent since the Great Recession of 2007- 2009. In recent years, the top five destinations for people 25 to 39 with at least a bachelor’s degree were, in descending order: Houston, Austin, Seattle, San Francisco-Oakland and Atlanta. Portland came in sixth. The report found that economic opportunity and quality of life serve as unmistakable draws to the nation’s largest metro areas, and young people are willing to pay higher rent to live in places they like.