Rust Valley

Just as with the Sonya Labs posting about Pittsburgh that I wrote about yesterday, a significant number of friends, family and colleagues pointed out this story about Pittsburgh in the NY Times over the weekend.  The feature has some nice praise for Pittsburgh:
“[T]his city of 89 distinct neighborhoods is a cool and — dare I [...]

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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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As I mentioned previously, Obama swung by Pittsburgh to talk about money.  The press coverage of the event, which I’ll admit that I found on Babbledog suggests that he thinks Pittsburgh is a model for some kind of national economic progress:
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on Thursday told invited guests and a panel of [...]

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Obama is scheduled to lead an economic summit at Carnegie Mellon University on Thursday.  Which is kind of cool.  Except I can’t go, ’cause I’m not living in Pittsburgh yet (next week!).  That’s OK, because you can’t go either:  it’s invite-only and if you’re reading this page, you weren’t invited—trust me.
I’m interested to see how [...]

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