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When I first got involved with entrepreneurship at NC State, I quickly noticed the shortage of women. I was presenting my startup idea to boards and rooms full of men. In the campus co-working space, I felt like guys were looking at me as if I was lost. I was overwhelmed by men (and specifically male engineers), because they seemed to be everywhere. The feeling was so strong that I wondered if I could really be comfortable as I tried to find my place in the entrepreneurial world.  My fears have subsided and my excitement has grown over the...

Ricky Spero is co-founder and VP of Product Development at Rheomics, a startup born at UNC with a test for measuring the strength of clots to help doctors control bleeding in sick and injured patients. I was happily nodding along with Bill Bing and Joe Procopio’s recent posts advocating a better exchange of ideas in Triangle Startup. Then a comment by Joe made me pause: I haven’t cracked the puzzle of getting the gamers more involved at startup events and vice versa. I don’t know if it’s about the fragmentation of the industry or just an independent streak. Maybe it’s like biotech, where those folks...