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Hey, I live in Pittsburgh. There are a couple of us here on news.yc. The startup atmosphere is not very much. The investors consist of an angel group, Innovatio
by rms 19y ago
Hey, I live in Pittsburgh. There are a couple of us here on news.yc. The startup atmosphere is not very much. The investors consist of an angel group, Innovation Works, and private angels (which I just hear about, I've never actually seen one). If you manage to raise money, or can self finance, there are good programmers available at much lower rates than in SF.
Innovation Works is running an incubator this summer. The application is due today, if you want to get one in quickly.
http://www.iwalphalab.org/ http://www.iwalphalab.org/
- dimitry 19y agoThanks for the info rms. I'm not in a rush so won't be submitting to Innovation Works just yet, although this would have been nice to know few weeks ago =) Bookmarked. I'll have to ping you if I decide to move back.
- semigeek 19y agoWe're just outside Pitt, so if you move back we might have enough for a Pitt Meetup
- bkrausz 19y agoI agree with rms...not too much in terms of startups, but we do have 2 things going for us: 1) College students, lots of them. That means that you can find cheap smart labor if you're looking to hire (Carnegie Mellon has lots of coders). A noteworthy number of startups/startupy ideas came out of CMU students, including buxfer, flexcar, and recaptcha. 2) Everything here is really really cheap. The cost of living is 84% the national average, vs. 182% for Silicon Valley. A lot easier to bootstrap something. Full disclosure: I'm only in Pittsburgh for school and intend to move to SV ASAP. Weather's much nicer there, and I go where the work is.