Note: this post appeared originally on the Sonya Labs blog.
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Of all places, I never would've expected to build my startup in Pittsburgh. I moved to the 'burgh from Chicago when Sonya Labs got a seed-stage investment from AlphaLab. It is not so unfathomable that I'm here, though, it actually makes quite a bit of sense. Even Paul Graham, a Pittsburgh native, who is famous for advising that startups go to Boston or Sillicon Valley says so!
Pittsburgh has the opposite problem: plenty of nerds, but no rich people. The top US Computer Science departments are said to ...
