I don’t know if ShowClix can bowl or not but we 
will find out tonight when Deeplocal v. ShowClix happens at Forward Lanes in Squirrel Hill. We love being a part of such a great start-up community in Pittsburgh. There are a lot of great companies here. We try to reach out to others when we can and sometimes we even make friends. ShowClix are our friends and to get our companies mingling a bit more we decided to challenge one another to a bowling match.
ShowClix v Deeplocal Tonight
On another note, we started Deeplocal over three years ago. The great thing is that we started around the same time as a lot of other cool start-ups here in Pittsburgh. It’s been fun to grow, sometimes compete, and sometimes collaborate with this community. It’s also great that programs like Idea Foundry, Innovation Works, and AlphaLab are here to help incubate these businesses. Unfortunately it has been a tough climate recently for companies to raise follow-on money and we have seen some of these companies close up shop in the past several months. One company we are very sad to see go is Impact Games, headed up by Eric Brown. This company had several cool products like Play the News and had gained attention outside of Pittsburgh (whcih we all love to see happen). Sadly, commercialization is not as simple as non-entrepreneurs usually think it is. Impact Games has closed their doors. I am willing to bet we will see both their technology/games and their CEO Eric Brown making someone else wealthy very soon though. We have been able to interact with Eric on a few occasions and always found him to be creative and hard-working – the two traits we love at Deeplocal! We wish Eric the very best.
Good Luck Eric!
Next bowling competitor: Bright Innovation on November 18th! These guys beat us out at Tech 50 so this is sure to be a violent blood bath!