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Sonya Labs: Can Startups Be a Pittsburgh Thing?

July 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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Tags: money · pittsburgh · web

Obama: Pittsburgh Model For Change

June 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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 to lead economic summit

June 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: pittsburgh