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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...
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...
Hunch Finds a Correlation Between Revenue and Data

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ September 20, 2010 / Leave a comment

Dixon says that the company spent the first year or so after launching in learning mode, building out the data and finding connections. Now they have enough data, and 20 billion “connections” to be confident in making recommendations to people on just about anything at all. Did you know that...
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...
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...
The CEO is an Investor

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ September 8, 2010 / Leave a comment

A CEO does only three things. Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders. Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company. Makes sure there is always enough cash in the bank. There’s a bit of a Meme going around...
The Social Eco-System can Learn Some Lessons from Supply Chain Work of the Early 2000s

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ September 7, 2010 / Leave a comment

Much was made in the early 2000s of the need for companies to focus on entire vertical solutions, even if they don’t own the entire system. For example, a producer of carrots that sells to a bagger of frozen vegetables must consider that bagger a partner in a vertical system,...
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...
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...
The Blueprint for Social Startups From Now On

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ August 31, 2010 / Leave a comment

When Twitter announced that they would be buying/producing clients for mobile phones and looking to advance their own web platform in attempt to crush other clients, many people started to wonder whether working with the Twitter API was a good idea (I was one of them). Around that time, Fred...

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Coffee, Krispy Kremes and AlphaLab Are All Good Signs for Pittsburgh

Keeping Up With All The New Funding Models

Hunch Finds a Correlation Between Revenue and Data

Business Advice: Play Like the Penguins

The CEO is an Investor

Pittsburgh’s Tech Industry Has Lots of Room To Grow

Coworking (or not coworking) in Pittsburgh

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