entrepreneurs

48 Innovate: Where Startup Culture Meets Big Business

Posted by Amy Huffman | May 28, 2015

48 Innovate isn’t a typical consulting or tech company. And its founder, Melissa Kennedy, is neither a typical CEO nor entrepreneur. Instead she and her company are something entirely new. On one hand, Kennedy fits right in with the Triangle’s community of passionate and innovative entrepreneurs. Sporting bright red hair, she’s gregarious and the consummate cheerleader at startup events—hers is the cheer you hear rising above all the others. While perhaps more extroverted than some techies, her passion and dedication to discovering and supporting innovation in all business sizes help her blend into the Triangle startup community. Conversely, Kennedy’s demeanor...

A Transplant’s Take On Triangle Startups, and What ExitEvent Has To Do With It

Posted by Laura Baverman | Feb 3, 2014

So, I’m from Ohio. Cincinnati actually. And it won’t take longer than 10 minutes of conversation for me to relate a business, person, landmark, food or product back to my hometown in some way, much to the dismay of my Floridian husband. I introduce myself this way because it’s taken some time for me to feel love for the Triangle like I feel for home. But when Adam Klein called me six weeks ago and offered me an opportunity that would connect me even more to this place, something hit me. I actually like it here. And Adam’s pitch...

The Top Three Things Startups Should Do For Their Startup Community

Posted by Joe Procopio | Mar 26, 2013

Back at the end of January, I wrote an article called The Top Four Things Startups Want From Their Startup Community, based on what I had learned from the 100+ entrepreneurs who attended that month’s ExitEvent Startup Social. Those four things were, paraphrasing: 1) Aggregated data on the progress of the community and its startups. 2) A means for closed communication among the community’s entrepreneurs. 3) More information about the individual entrepreneurs themselves. 4) More information about what’s happening in the community, more often. Then this past weekend, a discussion I had over beers with James Avery, founder of...