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Startup North Carolina Holds First Working Session

Posted by | Dec 16, 2012

As I was in line get into the first Startup NC meeting since the kickoff back in August, I wound up in front of an entrepreneur with whom I had been having some conversations about seeking their Series A round. The good news was that they were about 2/3rds of the way to the finish line and it looked like it would close shortly. The bad news was that it’d been as painful as could be expected. But any time you go raise here, it’s painful. Comes with the territory. Talk turned to the much-hyped Series A Crunch —...

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Raleigh Startup dejaMi Gets Booted From Office

Posted by | Oct 31, 2012

This is not how you embrace startups and entrepreneurship. The ridiculous thing is I know everyone involved and it’s a straight-up case of the spirit of the law vs. the letter of the law. Backing up a second. On Monday, the Raleigh News and Observer ran a spotlight article on dejaMi, the makers of WedPics, who will be presenting at Startup Summit at the Convention Center in Raleigh next week. I’ve known founder/CEO Justin Miller for a few years, and he’s been a player in the startup community and is one of those folks who consistently drives from Raleigh...

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SHAPE Charlotte Wants to Give Young Entrepreneurs $15K

Posted by | Sep 23, 2012

When I look at the makeup of the team and advisors for Charlotte Shapers, part of the Global Shapers network and the organization behind the SHAPE Charlotte Business Model Competition, I see a lot of banking, government, and non-profit credentials. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with this. Much like Raleigh was, well, picked on over and over again for trying to build a startup community around its foundation of corporate suits and public sector roots, Charlotte has to bring what it has to the table and build something different. It’s not going to look like Silicon Valley, or New...

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