Tag Archives: Ecosystem

Tapping Into the Pittsburgh Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

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 [...]

In Defense of Research

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 [...]