Category Archives: Team

The Seven Non-Negotiables of a Startup Pitch

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 [...]

Calling All Startup CEOs!

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 [...]

The Scrappiness Factor

Hey Pittsburgh Ventures readers, I’m Matt Humphrey. I am a Pittsburgh native, an alumnus of CMU Computer Science and Tepper MBA, Y-Combinator 2007, and serial startup guy who did a number of things in Pittsburgh from virtual worlds to content delivery to consumer internet and a lot in between. For the last twelve months I [...]