Rust Valley

Pittsburgh is great. People here are friendly, there are tons of things to do, it’s affordable, and so on. I’ve said it all before here. But one thing Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania does not have is low taxes.
We moved here from New Hampshire, the state with the second lowest per-capita tax burden in the [...]

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I recently wrote about the Alpha Lab incumbator funding several companies in Pittsburgh.  Yesterday, Shimon Rura, a former colleague of mine at Babbledog, sent me a link to the blog at Sonya Labs, one of the Alpha Lab fundees, and specifically, a nice writeup about the state of startup funding here in Pittsburgh.  Sonya Labs [...]

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Six local companies recently received funding, housing and mentoring at the AlphaLab facility on Pittsburgh’s South Side.  Cynthia Closkey previously wrote about Alpha Lab back in March when the project of InnovationWorks was previously announced.  As Cynthia pointed out back then, what is useful about AlphaLabs is that it focuses on web- and software-related ventures
My [...]

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