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Women Blogger MeetUp Next Week

Stern Woman Blogger (Photo credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com)

I have recently had the opportunity to meet several new women entrepreneurs in Pittsburgh who are working on building some exciting companies.

I am looking for other women bloggers in Pittsburgh who would be interested in meeting to network and meet some of these entrepreneurs. If this first event goes well, we are looking at making this a monthly event.

I am organizing an event next Monday or Tuesday before Thanksgiving. If you a women, you have a blog and you would like to attend – click here to let us know what date and time works best for you. (We’ll try to find a time that works for most people and we can plan a second event if needed.)

The folks at c-leveled, a consulting firm that works with small businesses and startups, has offered to host this meeting at their offices in Bloomfield. (Full disclosure – I work part-time for c-leveled).

A Few Bloggers That Are Propelling Pittsburgh Women Forward (bloglocal.net)
Moms with attitude:These bloggers don’t sugarcoat parenting’s ups and downs (triblive.com)

Want $5000 To Start a Business in Pittsburgh, Submit Your Idea to BusinessBout

BusinessBout is a competition for one new business idea to win $5000. Entry for the BusinessBout is pretty simple – just submit a 2 page summary of your business idea. One idea will walk away with $5000 to help start your business and a whole group of people to support your new idea. Ideas must be submitted by August 15, 2011. Get all of the details at BusinessBout.com.

I am very happy to help to spread the word about BusinessBout and I am sorry that we didn’t get the link to this posted here sooner. Hopefully you have seen some of the great press coverage on this – if not you still have a few days to submit your idea.

This is way more of a great Pittsburgh story than just a Pittsburgh business plan competition. The BusinessBout is an exciting idea not only because it is a chance to help a new company in Pittsburgh, but the whole project is created by a group of people that think Pittsburgh is great, have been working to make it a great place and who want to make it even better.

BusinessBout is the idea of 6 friends who have been doing some great stuff in Pittsburgh. These guys have been doing some great things for Pittsburgh in the public eye and behind the scenes for the past few years. I first met Luke Skurman years ago when he was just starting college prowler. I run into Luke occasionally and we have shared a few ideas over Facebook – I feel very fortunate to follow his updates by email and Facebook – I know that he is committed to Pittsburgh by starting and continuing to run College Prowler here, but also to mentoring a young Pittsburgher through Big Brother, Big Sisters since at least 2008 (thats is as far back as my gmail archives go).

So for the past few years these guys have been organizing some parties here in Pittsburgh and raising money for good causes. Now they are kicking it up a notch with BusinessBout.

Check out the BusinessBout team on Our Region’s Business

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Links Worth a Look – November 1st

Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look:

Encyclopedia Destructica – The Pittsburgh Craft Collective Blog highlights this business that makes handbound books and zines in lawrenceville. They also have public binding parties too – you can help to create their next zine.
Nine Mile Run Geology Tour – This looks like an interesting look at Nine Mile Run. Sunday. Nov. 2 at 1pm
The Buzz » Blog Archive » Welcome to the Berner Blog – I have been bugging Georgia Berner to write a blog about her business, which is a manufactuing business here in Western PA that makes air curtains. Georgia Berner is a wealth of knowledge about business and manufacturing and I hope you will check out her blog. This blog post has a good explaination of air curatins too.

Click here to see more links we like.

Pizza and Other Pittsburgh Lunch-time Offerings

I work downtown and one of my favorite parts of the job is deciding where to have lunch every day! My co-workers and I started keeping tabs of all the great eateries in Pittsburgh last year and have hit up quite a few of them since then. I’ll admit, most of my favorites are places that offer pizza… because I am simply obsessed. Our latest lunch-time outing was to Piccolo Forno in Lawrenceville. We had been there a few times before but this time I was due for pizza. I love the atmosphere of Piccolo Forno, it is bright and airy throughout with brick walls, high ceilings and modern lighting. It isn’t very big, which I like… it gives you the feeling you are in a huge city and you are just thankful you get to be a tiny part of it! The staff is super friendly and you can watch them making your pizza in the fire oven right in front of you. It can be a place to go for a quite, relaxing lunch or somewhere to hang out with friends after work. You can even bring your own bottles of wine. How great is that? This trip, I ordered a pizza and I am not ashamed to admit I ate the WHOLE thing (don’t judge). I can’t wait until I get a craving for pizza again, or tiarmasu or panninis or a great salad (need I go on?) because I’ll be right back at Piccolo Forno enjoying every second of my meal. Stop by Butler Street and take a seat. Then be sure to let me know how you liked it… also, I’d like to know if I’m the only one who finishes an entire pizza BY MYSELF!