Posts by: Albert Ciuksza
The first six months of the Pittsburgh Impact initiative provided some important insights as we engaged, personally and collectively, with companies that are growing. We learned from these businesses and the network of organizations that support their growth that we should tackle three areas of activity: communicate with businesses to exchange information; [...]
If you are — like me — geographically unaware, you may not realize that the popular vacation getaway Cancun is located in the heart what used to be entirely populated by Mayans. I recently spent my honeymoon there, on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. With a rare opportunity to visit ancient ruins – amid exhausting days of [...]
The celebration of National Small Business Week culminated last Friday with the annual SBA Awards Luncheon, honoring some incredible business owners and supporters throughout western Pennsylvania. This year was particularly special for us as we presented the inaugural Chairman’s Award for Pittsburgh Impact Companies. Along with representatives of the Team Pennsylvania Foundation and the Pennsylvania [...]
In a data point that might surprise, about 56 percent of Pennsylvania small businesses do not have a website. Since 97 percent of people research local products and services online, choosing not to have a website puts those companies at a significant disadvantage. Getting companies to build a website to promote and grow [...]
Let’s start the year by debunking one of the greatest myths about Pittsburgh’s regional economy – that manufacturing is dead and has been replaced almost entirely by “eds and meds.”
Back in August 2011, PRA Market Research VP Jim Futrell wrote of the strength of the manufacturing sector in Research Roundup, the [...]
In order to best focus the goals of the Impact initiative, we regularly meet with executives from growing companies to better understand their needs and challenges. Recently, we had the chance to sit down with executives from two of these companies: Janice McGee, president of The Empyrean Group; and Ted Ford, CEO [...]
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