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History Uncorked is Pittsburgh’s premiere event for young professionals! Now in its 12th year, History Uncorked 2010 promises to be a fun, festive evening for all. Join us for good food, entertainment, and a look at our groundbreaking exhibitions.
History Uncorked is a fundraising event for the Senator John Heinz History Center. Its purpose [...]
In the past week, I attended two events where I had to evaluate startup pitches delivered to investors: a boot camp for the upcoming 3RVF conference in Pittsburgh, and the interim demo day at AlphaLab. Both events were dry-run practice sessions so that presenting companies could be more polished when they were actually on the [...]
The importance of boosting your information network has been discussed in previous posts. We received many comments from people discussing how they consume information on the web. It’s interesting to hear the methods and tools individuals use to consume more and spend less (time).
The 3 main tools I use:
1) Netvibes is a personalized start page. [...]
I was reading a couple back-articles on one of my favorite blogs, A VC, today, and I came across this discussion about rich comment threads:
But if the author of the news story, or opinion piece, or blog post, tends to the comments, replies to the good ones, signals the bad ones, chastises the loudmouth bullies, [...]
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OK – this is largely intended for my friends/associates whom I fear will be the grandmas who don’t know how to program their VCRs (what’s that?)… NOW IS THE TIME TO GET INTO RSS (Real Simple Syndication – but the name is somewhat contrived and doesn’t matter)!
What in [...]
I am plugging a local conference put on by Young Inventors International (YII) coming up in April – and in particular,one of the events at this conference: the BRAINBUZZ. One of our blog authors, Aaron Tainter, will be speaking on a panel at the conference and will be taking part in the BrainBuzz – and [...]
The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and attracts leading digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs. The event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology.
I attended this conference this week and sat in on countless intriguing panels, met many interesting people, ate at every BBQ [...]
Let’s start with an intro. I am Aaron Tainter, Alan’s colleague an Associate at Meakem Becker. I have been asked to become a part of this increasingly popular Pittsburgh Ventures blog. Hopefully I will succeed in providing some unique/interesting/candid thoughts relating to things I’m seeing in venture capital and the overall tech industry. Here’s the [...]
There is an intriguing article in last week’s issue of Forbes Magazine – Venture Capital’s Coming Collapse – an excerpt:
The venture capital industry is staring at the most vicious shakeout in its history. Returns are pathetic for most funds, the public offering pipeline on which venture depends for its exit strategy is clamped shut, and [...]
Happy New Year to all 46 of you have added us to your feed reader… we really appreciate you following this blog!
This year I am going to resolve to post on some instructional topics concerning the structure of private equity – how we at Meakem Becker look at potential investments, the internal workings of our [...]