It is great to be a part of a community like Portland that always has interesting things going on and interesting folks to keep you inspired. In case you missed them, here are a few things that caught our attention around the startup scene last week.

• Congrats to PIE alum Little Bird on a major hiring announcement. Welcome to the extended PIE family, Carmen Hill.
• Portland Startup Weekend has crowned another victor. Read about Distio and their idea to improve the sharing community.
• It’s always nice to see PIE’s collaborative spirit carrying on after the accelerator class. PIE alum Stand In has been using PIE alum Orchestrate as a platform for quickly building a HackerNews-like application.
• Portland folks, could you be any more amazing? If this doesn’t inspire you, I don’t know what will.