Founder Felix Lloyd used to be a school teacher in Washington DC, and he hopes his startup, Skill-Life, willl be able to help school-aged children learn about personal finances. He likens his idea to “SIMS meets Quicken.”
Felix is a great salesman, and his entertaining walk through the Skill-Life online virtual world, Cents City, showed off [...]
Game Huddle is the creation of a couple avid gamers, John Carson and Tyler Ewing, likened to “eHarmony meets Facebook for gamers”.
The site provides a toolset for other big gamers that allow them to ply their passion in a social medium that gives them the ability to chooose who they play with, what news they [...]
Next up is crono, a CMU spinout of Jarun Ngamvirojcharoen, Liz Crawford, and Manuela Velloso. They have created an application that makes the process of scheduling meetings easier.
Currently, they don’t have a website (that I could find), and their alpha product only works in Google Calendar. They are targeting other polular calendar programs, such as [...]
Next up is online comic strip creation startup Chogger. Founders Jeremy Herrman, Alex Moore, and Jim Keder are behind what looks to be a very colorful and attractively designed site. On Chogger, you can create and distribute any type of digital comic you would like.
This is an interesting corner of the otherwise over-crowded social media [...]
BlenderHouse founders Jason Wilburn and Mike Cham kick the morning off, introducing their startup that provides social media “apps” to popular sites such as Facebook, Hi5, mySpace, etc. They have built two apps thus far, WhichWheels? that helps Facebook users decide which car they should buy based on recommendations from friends, and a “white-label” app [...]
I am at AlphaLab’s very first Demo Day, when each of the six companies that have been incubated over the last six months presents what their company is all about. There is a great crowd here – I would guess close to 150 people crowded in their Southside location on Carson Street – STANDING ROOM [...]
The next installment of that uber-hip phenom that is being talked about all around town – yep, that’s the OpenCoffee Club! – will take place tomorrow at the AlphaLab – Wednesday, October 1st, at 9:00am.
For those of you who know about OCC – be there or be square.
For those of you who DON’T know about [...]
Last Friday, Innovation Works (IW) announced the creation of AlphaLab, a rapid-product development accelerator for software, game development and internet-related startups. As mentioned in these articles in the Pittsburgh Business Times and Tribune-Review, we are hopeful that AlphaLab will serve as a focal point for software developers in the Pittsburgh region, and can [...]