{"id":3000,"date":"2014-02-13T16:38:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T00:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/?p=3000"},"modified":"2024-12-05T08:49:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T16:49:10","slug":"party-at-pie-to-toast-reed-switchboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/2014\/02\/party-at-pie-to-toast-reed-switchboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Party at PIE to toast Reed Switchboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2014\/02\/switchboard_banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3002\" alt=\"switchboard_banner\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2014\/02\/switchboard_banner-300x111.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2014\/02\/switchboard_banner-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/files\/2014\/02\/switchboard_banner.jpg 851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Time flies when you\u2019re incubating a fabulous idea! You may recall that last summer <a href=\"http:\/\/reedswitchboard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reed Switchboard<\/a>, the networking site created to share Reed love, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reed.edu\/reed_magazine\/sallyportal\/posts\/2013\/reed-switchboard-selected-from-400-applicants-for-20k-slice-of-pie-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">given a boost by Wieden &amp; Kennedy<\/a> as part of the ad firm\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wk.com\/incubator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE)<\/a>. The brainchild of Mara Zepeda \u201902 and Sean Lerner \u201910, Switchboard was one of only seven tech start-ups selected for this collaboration with tech entrepreneurs; it was given $20,000 in seed money, office space at Wieden+Kennedy, and three months of hands on mentorship from past PIE winners. Since then Switchboard has further polished its business plan and <a title=\"We heart Reed Switchboard\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/2014\/02\/we-heart-reed-switchboard\/\">signed up Reed College as its first client<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate all of this growth and innovation, we invite you to an open house at the Switchboard pad within Wieden+Kennedy in Portland\u2019s Pearl District:<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, February 20, 6 &#8211; 8 p.m.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wk.com\/office\/portland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wieden+Kennedy, 224 NW 13th Ave.<\/a><br \/>\nNote: Please enter on NW 12th, just north of Davis<\/p>\n<p>RSVP to <a href=\"mailto:alumni@reed.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alumni@reed.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time flies when you\u2019re incubating a fabulous idea! You may recall that last summer Reed Switchboard, the networking site created to share Reed love, was given a boost by Wieden &amp; Kennedy as part of the ad firm\u2019s Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE). The brainchild of Mara Zepeda \u201902 and Sean Lerner \u201910, Switchboard was one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/2014\/02\/party-at-pie-to-toast-reed-switchboard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Party at PIE to toast Reed Switchboard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":3002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumnievents","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3000"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3764,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions\/3764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}