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  1. Law, Entrepreneurship, Pittsburgh and Pitt’s IPI

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / October 19, 2010 / Leave a comment
    I mentioned yesterday in a tweet that Mike Madison posted on Pittsblog an opening at the Innovation Practice Institute on Twitter.  I was going to let it go at that, but the more I thought about it, I decided it was a good excuse to write a blog post.  Lawyers...
  2. Brad Feld on Building Entrepreneurial Communities

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / October 18, 2010 / Leave a comment
    As someone who’s working to help build the entrepreneurial community in Pittsburgh, I thought the above video would be valuable.  The speaker is Brad Feld and the venue is the Tahoe Tech Talk.  Brad has spent the last 15 years helping to sculpt Boulder in to a leading entrepreneurial community...
  3. It appears my Driving Innovation Post was a Day or Two Early

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / October 11, 2010 / Leave a comment
    Flying cars were always the fantasy of my childhood.  Something out of the Jetsons was supposed to be in the not too distant future.  It’s what I dreamed about, until I spent a spring in New York.  My ability to get work, reading, etc… done on the Subway seemed to...
  4. Coffee, Krispy Kremes and AlphaLab Are All Good Signs for Pittsburgh

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / October 1, 2010 / Leave a comment
    By lucky happenstance I was in Pittsburgh today, which gave me a chance to stop by the Open Coffee Club at AlphaLab.  It was a very interesting opportunity to meet some of the influential capatalists and entrepreneurs in Pittsburgh.  I have to be honest, I was not expecting a get...
  5. Keeping Up With All The New Funding Models

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / September 29, 2010 / Leave a comment
    A few months ago I outlined a report card that could be used to assess a startup ecosystem’s progress.  It broke up a startup ecosystem in to five categories; funding, talent, direct needs (infrastructure), environmental essentials, environmental factors.  Needless to say the largest factor is funding, representing 45% of the...
  6. PodCamp Pittsburgh 5

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / September 18, 2010 / Leave a comment
    In case you’re not aware of it, PodCamp Pittsburgh is online this year!  I’m planning on watching some of the sessions online and there are little chat rooms, so join up even if you (like me) can’t physically attend.  I’ll probably be paging in and out as I work from...
  7. Business Advice: Play Like the Penguins

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / September 11, 2010 / Leave a comment
    Even the greatest companies occasionally find themselves in a rut.  In 1993 Apple began losing its identity by releasing over a dozen different models with little differentiation.  In 1995 they sealed the deal by letting other manufacturers like Motorolla produce machines that can support System7 (Mac’s OS at the time).  The point of...
  8. Pittsburgh’s Tech Industry Has Lots of Room To Grow

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / September 6, 2010 / Leave a comment
    Harold Miller is probably the most respected author and blogger on Pittsburgh’s growth and prominence.  He’s an adjunct professor at CMU’s Heinz School of Public Policy and a semi-regular contributor to the Post-Gazette.  His article in the P-G yesterday (posted in expanded form to his blog) is worth reviewing in...
  9. Coworking (or not coworking) in Pittsburgh

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / September 2, 2010 / 4 Comments
    If you are launching a startup or have one that is just one or two people, you should really try to get into a coworking space. It can be more cost effective, but that is not the best reason to do it. You’ll get knowledge sharing, energy, and a lof...
  10. What the Pirates’ Finances Really Mean

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / August 30, 2010 / Leave a comment
    Today, I’m going to be talking about Alan Robinson’s AP Article. As an MBA who’s been working with private companies the last few years, I can tell you, you can make the numbers say whatever you want.  I wouldn’t read too much in to the fact that the Pirates showed...
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