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Tag Archives: Pittsburgh PA

December 23, 2014

How to Create a Tech Startup Scene If You’re Not in Silicon Valley

Collaborations, Colleges and Universities, Economic Life, Entrepreneurs, Pittsburgh PA • Tags: High-tech, Pittsburgh PA

How to Create a Tech Startup Scene If You’re Not in Silicon Valleylead-6
by John Tierney
Pittsburgh’s success provides important and surprising clues. (Read it here.)

November 25, 2014

How Political Leadership Makes City Streets Bikeable

Leaders, Local Institutions, Pittsburgh PA • Tags: Pittsburgh PA

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by John Tierney
Pittsburgh’s Mayor Bill Peduto shows what political will and determination can do. (Read it here.)

November 22, 2014

What Millennials Love About Pittsburgh

Civic Life, Economic Life, Pittsburgh PA • Tags: Pittsburgh PA

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by John Tierney
‘Land of Opportunity’ has real meaning here. (Read it here.)

November 20, 2014

How Green Riverfronts Transformed Pittsburgh

Civic Life, Collaborations, Community Redevelopment, Economic Life, Leaders, Local Institutions, Pittsburgh PA, Revitalization • Tags: Pittsburgh PA

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by John Tierney
The City of Bridges revives the rivers that helped make it an economic powerhouse. (Read it here.)

November 15, 2014

America’s Tiniest Innovators: Report from Pittsburgh

Economic Life, Education, Elementary Schools, Entrepreneurs, Pittsburgh PA • Tags: Pittsburgh PA

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By Deborah Fallows

Teaching technology and life lessons in an urban elementary school
(Read it here.)

November 14, 2014

The Story of ‘Moop’: How a Company Came to Be

Entrepreneurs, Pittsburgh PA • Tags: Pittsburgh PA

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By John Tierney

A Pittsburgh woman managed to build a successful bag company from a failed effort to make a dress.
(Read it here.)

November 11, 2014

The iPhone Case That Can Call the Police

Entrepreneurs, Pittsburgh PA • Tags: Pittsburgh PA

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by John Tierney

A startup in Pittsburgh has designed a smartphone case and app to deter assault. (Read it here.)

November 7, 2014

The Company That Turns Plastic Bottles Into Fabric — And Jobs

Entrepreneurs, Pittsburgh PA • Tags: Pittsburgh PA

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by John Tierney

A startup in Pittsburgh shows what a social enterprise is capable of.
(Read it here.)

October 31, 2014

Pittsburgh’s ‘City of Asylum’

Pittsburgh PA, Uncategorized • Tags: Pittsburgh PA

Pittsburgh’s ‘City of Asylum’

Exiled writer Huang Xiang at City of Asylum 10th Anniversary ( Renee Rosensteel )

Exiled writer Huang Xiang at City of Asylum 10th Anniversary ( Renee Rosensteel )

by Deborah Fallows

In the City of Bridges, an eclectic community embraces writers in exile.
(Read it here.)

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