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 [...]
Just to prove that this blog is actually written by two separate people with their individual points of view, here’s a follow-up post to Alan’s Edible Robots post.
Alan’s hypothesis is that Pittsburgh’s technology sector is more heavily weighted toward research than commercialization, and that Pittsburgh’s startup community often seems to consist of researchers who think that a scientific breakthrough in itself is [...]
OK – don’t say I didn’t warn you about getting your dander up…
Pittsburgh is fortunate to have a couple resident journalists from Big Media who cover the local scene, and often get us “above the fold” – witness today’s front page article (below the fold) in the Wall Street Journal entitled, Pittsburgh Puts Robots to [...]