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venture capital. As long as the ETC is still located in Pittsburgh, most of the knowledge spillover will remain local. While Pittsburgh venture capital works through its conservative phase, the ETC creativity engine will continue to churn out quality graduates and business spinoffs. That Pittsburgh is the incubation site of such innovation is exciting. The entrepreneurial landscape will eventually mature. In the meantime, bring your ideas to Pittsburgh if you are interested in funding for a new business.

In response to Bruce Nussbaum's post the other day over at BusinessWeek, asking if New York was becoming the new hub of design and innovation, Ross Popoff-Walker has a much more articulate and better reasoned reply to Nussbaum than our own. In it, he argues that yes, there might be lots of firms moving to NY or opening satelitte offices, but it's important to distinguish between the different types of design and innovation (i.e. it isn't just advertising) and how essentially academic

people to talk about themselves. Creatives and Advertisers ALL have opinions and if you can get them chatting about them then 50% of your work is done... now you just have to have smart somewhat relevant comments to keep the conversation going. Ross Popoff-Walker, Interactive Youth Design Strategist, Forrester What are two current projects you're working on that could really use this opening? Ross' point of view: I ask this to get a sense of the work I'd do. Then I immediately follow their answer with

people to talk about themselves. Creatives and Advertisers ALL have opinions and if you can get them chatting about them then 50% of your work is done... now you just have to have smart somewhat relevant comments to keep the conversation going. Ross Popoff-Walker, Interactive + Youth Design Strategist, Forrester What are two current projects you're working on that could really use this opening? Ross' point of view: I ask this to get a sense of the work I'd do. Then I immediately follow their answer with

s a group of folks who actually watch the analyst industry, and have made this blog ranking of the industry. (I’m not on the list yet). There’s quite a few other employees who also happen to blog, such as Peter Kim, Ross Popoff-Walker and myself. Leave a comment if I’ve left out any other Forresterites, I’m sure I did. CEO George Colony welcomes you to his blog What’s really interesting is the challenge of CEO blogs, in fact I warn most clients NOT to let their CEOs blog,