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AlphaLab inaugural startups try to make it on their own
Pittsburgh Business Times - by Beth Ballog

Jason Wilburn had two start-ups on his resume last year. But his interactions with Pittsburgh's entrepreneurial scene had been minimal.

He and partner Michael Cham's half-year in Innovation Works' business incubator, however, gave them a BlackBerry full of contacts critical to building BlenderHouse, their seed-stage applied learning software company.
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Software for Social Networking Sites
Pittsburgh Business Times - by Beth Murtagh

Company: BlenderHouse
Co-founders: Jason Wilburn and Michael Cham
Year founded: 2008
Funding received to date: $25,000 from Innovation Works

Stage of commercialization: BlenderHouse was incorporated in January. The technology is under development.

Target audience: For now, BlenderHouse is working on the Facebook platform. The target demographic, Wilburn says, is "a little bit older, with friends dispersed all over the country" with whom ...
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Six companies chosen for Pittsburgh Web incubator
Pittsburgh Business Times

The first six companies that will receive funding and mentoring at a Pittsburgh incubator for Web and software-related firms were identified Wednesday.

The companies to take part in the AlphaLab program are BlenderHouse, Chogger, crono, GameHuddle, Skill-Life, and Sonya Labs, according to Innovation Works, which launched AlphaLab in February.
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