I am at AlphaLab this morning, and I will try to get a short blurb off on each presenting company – looks like a great set of companies and nice audience.
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Tapping Into the Pittsburgh Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Friday, April 10th, 2009
A couple weeks back, I gave a presentation at McKinsey, the consulting firm where I used to work. It was great to see and talk to some old friends whom I hadn’t seen in such a long time, and to meet the new faces – the highly talented core of consultants that McKinsey is so [...]
OpenCoffee Club – Monday, April 13
Friday, April 10th, 2009
I’m looking forward to seeing everyone at our next OpenCoffee on Monday, April 13, 9AM at AlphaLab on the SouthSide. If you’re not familiar with OCC, it is simply an informal gathering for those who are interested in the local startup scene to get together and chat. The attendance mix includes entrepreneurs, investors, tech [...]
Project Olympus Focus #4 – Crono
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
As I wrote in my post last week, this week I am going to highlight four technologies/teams at CMU that are looking to spinout to form a company, and are looking for a CEO. Project Olympus is helping to facilitate matches. And finally…
crono – This project originated with Manuela Veloso, a professor in the School [...]
Project Olympus Focus #3 – BeaconSys
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
As I wrote in my post last week, this week I am going to highlight four technologies/teams at CMU that are looking to spinout to form a company, and are looking for a CEO. Project Olympus is helping to facilitate matches. Up third…
Assistive Mobile Technologies (BeaconSys) – This is a project that originates with faculty [...]
Project Olympus Focus #2 – POW!
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
As I wrote in my post last week, this week I am going to highlight four technologies/teams at CMU that are looking to spinout to form a company, and are looking for a CEO. Project Olympus is helping to facilitate matches. Up second…
POW! – This project originates with Mor Harchol-Balter, faculty member in the Computer [...]
Project Olympus Focus #1 – SPIRAL
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
As I wrote in my post last week, this week I am going to highlight four technologies/teams at CMU that are looking to spinout to form a company, and are looking for a CEO. Project Olympus is helping to facilitate matches. Up first…
SPIRAL – This is a project originating in the Electrical and Computing Engineering [...]
Calling All Startup CEOs!
Friday, March 27th, 2009
The good folks over at Project Olympus, where I am an advisor, have asked me to post about a very interesting aspect of the work they are doing: matching potential CEO candidates with faculty/research students who have promising research projects or technologies that are ready to be spun-out into nascent businesses.
They are going to organize [...]
OpenCoffee Club – Wednesday, Feb 11, 9am at Alphalab
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Our next installment of Pittsburgh OpenCoffee Club will be held at Alphalab tomorrow morning (Wednesday – 2/11/2009) at 9:00am. Hope to see you there!
What is OpenCoffee Club (OCC)?
The OpenCoffee Club was started to encourage entrepreneurs, developers, and investors to organize real-world informal meetups to chat, network, and grow. This is a place to meet people, [...]
AlphaLab Demo Day – Sonya Labs
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Last up today is Sonya Labs, the creation of Rodrigo Guzman, Nathan Collins, and Walter Chen. These three Pittsburgh imports are creating the “Google of legal research.”
The legal profession today uses LexisNexis and Westlaw to find legal information to buld cases, but these resources are old-school, mostly manually based sources of legal information. SonyaLabs is [...]