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Startup Sweeps Takes Community Literally With New Open HQ

This just isn’t what a startup is supposed to do. Morris Gelblum has probably heard that more than he’d care to admit. He started Sweeps as a company to connect college students to odd jobs — good dependable labor, up-front flat rate, platform to connect jobs with workers. Everyone wins. Ever since I’ve known him, Gelblum has run Sweeps as more of an ideal than a startup, albeit an ideal with employees, customers, revenue, and now a really nice HQ just outside of Chapel Hill. That HQ, starting with a meetup tonight, will be housing co-working, classes, events, and,...

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American Underground Makes a 15-Year Startup Bet

You’d never know Adam Klein was a betting man. And he’s not. But that’s the first thing that might pop into your head when I tell you that American Underground, Durham’s startup center located underneath the American Tobacco Campus, will be expanding a block-and-a-half away to 201 West Main Street with 40 private offices and 70 co-working desks. There’s a big press splash today and a big party tomorrow in Bay 7, but this is not going down without a lot of forethought. Adam and I first starting talking about expansion back in the summer, when he first took...

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Asheville Gets a Startup Weekend and Expanded Coworking Space

This weekend I took my wife to the mountains. Since she’s originally from Colorado, we try to get to the very cool city of Asheville in the very gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountains every chance we get. Admittedly, this doesn’t happen as often as it used to, and one reason for that is startup + kids = no vacation time. The other reason is I had almost given up on Asheville. Let me explain. I’ve been seriously investigating Asheville as a startup hub since about 2007, when the wife and I were debating a possible change in location after I...

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