Pittsburgh

Hacking Enterprise IT: Introducing The Pittsburgh-Based Enterprise IT Startups

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ July 25, 2011 / Leave a comment

Note: As a former IBM Architect who loves startups, my sweet spot of the moment is enterprise IT startups (like the one I work for presently). I don’t talk about them as often on this blog as I’d for two reasons. First, they’re not that sexy because 95% of the...
Pittsburgh Startups, What’s Your Twitter Handle?

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ July 6, 2011 / Leave a comment

I am working on getting a little more plugged in to Pittsburgh Startups on Twitter. There are a number of great ones that get their news out that way and I want to help them turn up the volume in that channel. With that in mind, I’ve created a Twitter...
The Next Step for Pittsburgh’s Tech Scene

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ June 25, 2011 / Leave a comment

Ever since Lycos Pittsburgh has been known as the kind of place where companies can get started. ModCloth, Resumator, CloudFab and others have continued (and accelerated the pace of) that trend. The problem for these growing companies is funding. They can find seed money here (often through government programs like...
AlphaLab Demo Day: Post 2 – GenevaMars, Touchscreen Disney

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ June 15, 2011 / Leave a comment

I got the chance (thanks to @ms_selah) to drop by AlphaLab’s demo day a couple weeks ago. It was really exciting to watch 5 talented Pittsburgh companies present their projects! Unfortunately I left my notes at home when I left town, so forgive me for making these posts a couple...
Could Pittsburgh Burst in the Next Bubble?

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ June 7, 2011 / 4 Comments

I’m not sure how many of my readers still follow Mike Madison’s Pittsblog after several long hiatuses, but he seems to be back to posting at least a few times per week. It’s one of two updates I probably need to make to the blog roll in the next couple...
AlphaLab Demo Day: Post 1 – Drinking Smart with Rhomania

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ June 3, 2011 / Leave a comment

I got the chance (thanks to @ms_selah) to drop by AlphaLab’s demo day a couple weeks ago. It was really exciting to watch 5 talented Pittsburgh companies present their projects! Unfortunately I left my notes at home when I left town, so forgive me for making these posts a couple...
Home Sweet Home

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ May 31, 2011 / Leave a comment

If there are typos in this post I apologize I am currently hurdling south on I75 towards Pittsburgh and typing with my thumbs. I have been away from the Burgh for the past two weeks for a combination of fun and work trips that’s taken me from Switzerland to Vegas...
Kenneth Geidel: Earning a Piece of History for Exceling at Your Job

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ May 11, 2011 / Leave a comment

This might be the first post about a ballpark vendor on a tech/startup blog, but it’s a deserving one. If you’re not from Pittsburgh or didn’t follow the Pens or Pirates, “The Lemonade Guy” (Pirates fans) or the “Cotton Candy Guy” (Pens fans) are probably generic titles that conjure up...
Pittsburgh Startups get TechCrunched

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ May 10, 2011 / 1 Comment

In the tech world one blog reigns supreme. TechCrunch (which recently became part of AOL) is subscribed to by 4 million+ on RSS. Their posts regularly receive hundreds of retweets. 205,000 like them on Facebook. While TechCrunch uses that platform to spend a lot of time talking about Apple, Google...
Twitter for Fun, Imagine Yinzer Batman

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ April 6, 2011 / 1 Comment

Photo Above Created by @Evil_Shero Twitter is part of my life now, much more than Facebook. I use it to interact with interesting people and to remain ridiculously up to date on local and tech news. I have argued in this space before that it is an enormously powerful tool...