I am headed off to AlphaLab in a few hours for the kickoff event of Podcamp Pittsburgh 3 – the Meet-n-Greet. Did someone say “cockatils”?
If you are in or around Pittsburgh this weekend, and want to attend an UnConference, you should stop in and check it out. We will be at the Art Institute on [...]
Basil: “Can’t we get you on Mastermind, Sybil? Next contestant , Sybil Fawlty from Torquay, special subject: the bleeding obvious.”
From PEHub:
The National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters (publisher of peHUB) today released data showing that VC fundraising has declined from both the prior quarter and from the third quarter of 2007. Fifty-five U.S.-based firms [...]
I have been asked by many friends and former colleagues about the implications of the current credit crisis on my industry. My answer is pretty straightforward: I am not too worried.
There are three angles to consider if you are a venture capitalist:
Investors/Limited Partners – these are the people whose money we invest. Since we collect [...]
I am sitting in the audience at the TechCrunch50 conference, the second annual west coast meetup put on by the highly popular tech blog TechCrunch (I guess this makes one of my first “live blogging” attempts…).
I wanted to shoot of a quick post about one one of the things that good entrepreneurs do: THEY MARKET [...]
While at an Open Coffee Club meeting a few weeks back, I heard tell of Matt Harbaugh’s blogging adventures under the title of “Pittsburgh Ventures”. Checking it out, I realized it had been several months since Matt had last posted, and I knew right away what was wrong: it is hard to do something like [...]
Jack Thorne, an important figure in the modern history of Pittsburgh tech entrepreneurship passed away this week. Jack’s decades of work helped to create much of what we now view as Pittsburgh’s entrepreneurial infrastructure. For anyone who didn’t know Jack, below is an email from Frank Demmler, a friend and former colleage of [...]
In a recent Pittsblog post, Mike Madison challenged the Pittsburgh tech community to identify local companies that have the potential to reach 100 employees and achieve at least $10 million in revenue.
Of course, predicting future growth with any certainty is impossible, so we may be better served to look for leading indicators – such [...]
There are some great conversations going on in the Pittsburgh blogosphere about startup tech companies and Pittsburgh’s entrepreneurial environment. In particular, I’ve read with great interest the posts of Mike Madison at Pittsblog, and Harold Miller at Pittsburgh’s Future. With this blog, I’ll try to add another perspective to the conversation, from the point of [...]