Joe Procopio

There's No Such Thing as a Competing Party

Posted by Joe Procopio | May 15, 2012

So twice last night at the ExitEvent Social I got pulled aside to have a quick and quiet conversation that boiled down to asking me if it was cool if such-and-such group held a get-together for entrepreneurs in the area. My response: “I’ll see you in court.” No. Honestly my response was somewhere between puzzled and excited. Since ExitEvent is a labor of love, I have no qualms about others in the area doing the same thing. In fact, I’m sure I’m stepping on any number of toes in some theoretical sense every time we tap the kegs or...

RTP New Tech Meetup Back From the Dead

Posted by Joe Procopio | May 15, 2012

Practice?!? When VCHub‘s Jeff Boardman was working on refining his startup back in October 2010, he happened on the RTP New Tech Meetup, itself a fledgling idea looking to take hold at a time when, if you can believe this, there weren’t too many places to talk about your startup in the RTP. What he got was a bunch of valuable feedback from a savvy audience (or so he says, I mean, I was there holding down the savvy curve), one that included technologists, entrepreneurs, marketers, and so on. Started by Roger Smith while he was working on a...

Automated Insights, Argyle, EvoApp, Zift, Netsertive and 20 More Are Companies to Watch

Posted by Joe Procopio | May 13, 2012

You hear a lot about two types of startups in this town — the young and scrappy early stagers, those who are just making their mark with a seed round and a dream, and successful exiters, the Red Hats and the iContacts and what have you. It’s rare that we shine a light on the hard-working money-makers, because those stories just aren’t that sexy. Yet. Even in drama-starved RTP, where we’re always caught somewhere between up-and-coming and best-place-to-quietly-grow-old, we still get our heads turned by new and flashy or huge wads of cash. America! But CED has an award...

Don’t Kill the Messenger

Posted by Joe Procopio | Jan 1, 2000

This is turning into RaleighWeek on ExitEvent. I certainly didn’t plan that, especially during only the second week of running content on ExitEvent (and thank you all for two awesome weeks so far, you keep digging it, I’ll keep spitting it). But since it worked out this way, who am I to argue? Adapt! And move on. So tomorrow morning I’m heading over to the Raleigh Chamber Headquarters where they’ve asked me to come in and have a little chat with the steering committee of Innovate Raleigh, which is the driving force behind any sort of startup spark in...