Shannon Cuthrell

We’re keeping an eye on cool career opportunities in the Triangle’s startup community, and publishing them every so often on ExitEvent. To submit a job opening, email laura@exitevent.com.   This month’s job list includes a mix of companies from around the Triangle, from job recruiting campaigns to healthcare apps to analytics software to nonprofit fundraising. The types of positions range from sales and marketing to engineering and product management. Check out the full list below. (And here’s last month’s edition.)  Envested  Since launching its Millennial-aimed nonprofit fundraising app in the Triangle earlier this year, Envested executives are already expecting an expansion to other...

Attorney General Roy Cooper took full advantage of an hour in a room full of entrepreneurs gathered for ExitEvent’s first candidate conversation Wednesday, asking for help from the crowd with creating more competition and lowering costs in healthcare, innovating alternative energy solutions and finding new ways to communicate with the younger generation.  Will he practice what he preaches and really engage the startup community if elected Governor? We’ll see what happens November 8.  But it was an important step to make American Underground a stop on the Democratic candidate’s campaign and to sit for an interview all about issues facing startups...

Six startups, six industries and endless possibilities for the future.  That was the kind of optimistic energy exuding from a selection of founders at “Founding the Future Of…,” a Moogfest program hosted last Friday by ExitEvent’s editor, Laura Baverman. Their companies couldn’t have been more different, but there was one common ground uniting them—a home base in the Triangle.  Innovators from all over the world have gravitated to this region to make businesses out of their ideas, and the resulting startups are doing as cutting edge of innovation as what happens in Silicon Valley, Boston or in global startup hubs. ExitEvent chose...

There was a curious vibe in the room Thursday afternoon at the Durham Armory.   It seemed that no one really knew what to expect from a Moogfest session called “Live Processing and Ghost Dancing.” One Armory employee said to me, “Do you know what this thing is? I heard it was the future of music and dance!”    Duke University Professor Thomas F. DeFrantz founded the performance research group SLIPPAGE: PERFORMANCE | CULTURE | TECHNOLOGY, in 2003 at MIT. Since then, the group has explored how theatrical storytelling can mesh with performance and technology.    And Thursday, Moogfest attendees got...

North Carolina welcomed famous venture capitalist and ABC “Shark” Chris Sacca with meat sweats, an inspiring transgender coder and a room full of entrepreneurs hungry to hear his experience funding and guiding high-growth tech companies.  The lawyer turned-Google director-turned venture capitalist is proprietor of Lowercase Capital, a California fund with a portfolio of 80 startups including some of the biggest names in technology. So, when he agreed to a fireside chat Monday with HQ Raleigh co-founder and entrepreneur Brooks Bell, dozens of local innovators flocked to CAM Raleigh to take part.  Sacca greeted the audience by joking about his “rib sweats” from a...

Here’s a place you don’t often hear associated with startup activity—Watauga County.  It’s an area snuggled within North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains that visitors and locals often say is charmingly stuck in the 1970s’ hippie years. Alongside its main highway salutes the Watauga County welcome sign. And if you travel this route often, you’ll likely notice the “Certified Entrepreneurial Community” label attached to it. That’s a token from 2007, when Advantage West Economic Development Group designated the county a certified area for entrepreneurial activity.  Much of Watauga’s creative and innovative energy stems from its own Appalachian State University in Boone. Virtually...