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  1. NYC and Startups Again – What the Burgh Can Learn

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / August 4, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Pittsburgh’s (and Pennsylvania’s) leadership have taken a keen interest in getting the entrepreneurial part of the local tech sector rolling.  They deserve a lot of credit for some of the new companies that have sprung up around the city.  We’re not alone in this though, many other cities have become...
  2. Productivity in and out of “the Office”

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / August 1, 2011 / Leave a comment
    I moved back up to Pittsburgh in December of last year, but continue to work for the company that I moved down to Charlotte to help get started.  I’m back in the office once a month or so, and it really has me thinking about where and how I’m most...
  3. 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...
  4. Is There Enough Risk for Entrepreneurs Right Now?

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / July 19, 2011 / Leave a comment
    I am currently having an interesting internal debate that I thought I’d throw out here for the people who read this blog.  In part, I’m doing this to force myself to frame the argument, but I would also love to hear comments. The question is, “Is all the funding money...
  5. Hacking Enterprise IT: Spiceworks Brings the Social Model to Enterprise IT

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / July 18, 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...
  6. Network Innovation – Why I Work in a Startup

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / July 16, 2011 / Leave a comment
    I often get asked why I insist on being involved in startups eventhough my skill set lends itself better to large companies.  The answer is that I love innovation, making something where nothing existed before and big companies are just naturally bad at it; over the rest of the post...
  7. Dropbox is a Great Company, but a Commodity Idea

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / July 13, 2011 / 1 Comment
    I love Dropbox and I use it all the time.  It keeps my four computer entirely in sync and lets me do my thing on any of them.  It was also invaluable when I lost my laptop.  Of all the services in the space, they have built the most reliable...
  8. Hacking Enterprise IT: How The Cloud Enables It

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / July 11, 2011 / 1 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...
  9. 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...
  10. Innovation in Incubation

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / July 2, 2011 / Leave a comment
    I saw an article on Fred Wilson’s blog about Founder Labs.  Founder Labs is, more or less, a traveling incubator program where people sign up as individuals, are paired together and then helped to build the start of a company in 5 weeks.  It seems like a good idea, an...
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