Hi there, Mara here from Switchboard. There are six days left to apply to PIE. I’m going to tell you why you should. So before we get started I want you to go and visit another three incubators’ we…

Back in April on the Portland Incubator Experiment blog, our June ‘14 CreativeMornings/Portland speaker Mara Zepeda explains why she feels PIE to be the “most creative incubator in the most creative company in the most creative building in the most creative city in the world” after her 2013 experience at PIE. Having co-founded Switchboard, she lists 20 parts of her ecosystem and the profound impact they had on the technology her team built while at PIE.One line, as an example: “In this building there is a drawer of glitter and a letterpress in the basement. They emit a sonar of inspiration.”