First up is Bueda, a CMU spinout headed up by Vasco Pedro. The idea behind Bueda is to better monetize ads on user-generated content (UGC) sites using tags and tighter semantic matching.
Certainly a very large market, but also quite crowded, and one that hasn’t necessarily delivered the technology promise as much as the hype. Vasco [...]
I am at AlphaLab this morning, and I will try to get a short blurb off on each presenting company – looks like a great set of companies and nice audience.
A couple weeks back, I gave a presentation at McKinsey, the consulting firm where I used to work. It was great to see and talk to some old friends whom I hadn’t seen in such a long time, and to meet the new faces – the highly talented core of consultants that McKinsey is so [...]
I’m looking forward to seeing everyone at our next OpenCoffee on Monday, April 13, 9AM at AlphaLab on the SouthSide. If you’re not familiar with OCC, it is simply an informal gathering for those who are interested in the local startup scene to get together and chat. The attendance mix includes entrepreneurs, investors, tech [...]
As I wrote in my post last week, this week I am going to highlight four technologies/teams at CMU that are looking to spinout to form a company, and are looking for a CEO. Project Olympus is helping to facilitate matches. And finally…
crono – This project originated with Manuela Veloso, a professor in the School [...]
Our next installment of Pittsburgh OpenCoffee Club will be held at Alphalab tomorrow morning (Wednesday – 2/11/2009) at 9:00am. Hope to see you there!
What is OpenCoffee Club (OCC)?
The OpenCoffee Club was started to encourage entrepreneurs, developers, and investors to organize real-world informal meetups to chat, network, and grow. This is a place to meet people, [...]
Last up today is Sonya Labs, the creation of Rodrigo Guzman, Nathan Collins, and Walter Chen. These three Pittsburgh imports are creating the “Google of legal research.”
The legal profession today uses LexisNexis and Westlaw to find legal information to buld cases, but these resources are old-school, mostly manually based sources of legal information. SonyaLabs is [...]
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 [...]