Western PA and the Pittsburgh area could see a resurgence of business activity beginning with small startups and young people fresh out of college. Pittsburgh has a lot to offer for young people and with incubator services like RCI it softens the financial blow of anyone looking to start a business for the first time.
PittsburghLive writes:
Micah Toll could have taken his electronic vehicle invention and set up shop anywhere in the world when he graduates from the University of Pittsburgh in two weeks.
Instead, the Tennessee native chose Shadyside as headquarters for Pulse Motors. His business partners, both Pitt students but neither native to Pittsburgh, also will remain in the area.
Toll designed his Personal Electric Vehicle Zero, a motorized unit that looks like a bike, to handle Pittsburgh's hilly terrain, but he never considered taking the idea to another city with similar topography.
"Pittsburgh has been incredibly good to us," Toll, 23, said on Wednesday. "The manufacturing resources are here, the factory space is available. There is a very good entrepreneur community here. Why wouldn't we stay in Pittsburgh?"
Read more: Region may have found cure for decades-long 'brain drain' - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleynewsdispatch/s_790907.html#ixzz1sbgdalrv
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