Philly is great for a startup! See: duckduckgo, RJMetrics, and Curalate. Good talent, good culture, relatively affordable (though the city is definitely getting

Philly is great for a startup! See: duckduckgo, RJMetrics, and Curalate. Good talent, good culture, relatively affordable (though the city is definitely getting more expensive as it gentrifies). Also, there is stuff outside the city (country, Baltimore, DC, NJ, NYC, beaches), which is really tough to argue for Pittsburgh.