launch chapel hill

In a Sea of Event Discovery Apps, Can This One Get Users Hyped?

Posted by Sarah Headley | Jul 28, 2014

Part of the Launch Chapel Hill learning process has been a testing phase this summer with about 1,000 users. The feedback from those initial users has been positive, Bregier says. “They (the testers) are pretty crazy about it,” Bregier says. “People download it and are almost unanimously excited.” He won’t share any specific plans for making money through the site, other than that early venue partners include Top of the Hill and the Carrboro Arts Center and he hopes to eventually integrate ticket purchases through the app. Zavelson is convinced there are multiple potential revenue streams. “It’s just a...

Triangle Startup Weekend Comes to Chapel Hill in November

Posted by Joe Procopio | Nov 6, 2013

You don’t just put on a Startup Weekend overnight. Having watched (ExitEvent contributor) Mital Patel do this several times over the last few years while he reanimated the dormant event here in the Triangle, I know there’s way more that goes into it than meets the eye. There are ultimately hundreds of people involved, many of them on board for the full 54 hours straight, and they’ll need to be fed, they’ll need to rest, and most of all they’ll need to make something tangible out of an idea, the lure of a good pitch, and a solid WiFi...