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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]