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WATCH: Solar, Pedal, Electric-Powered ELF Car from Production to Pavement

Posted by | Sep 3, 2014

The Durham Chamber of Commerce features Organic Transit in a new video series on its website. Check out footage of ELF production in Durham, and founder Rob Cotter talking about the company’s environmentally-conscious mission. And for more on Organic Transit’s goal of shipping its electric, solar and pedal-powered vehicles around the world, read this recent ExitEvent story on the...

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ExitEvent’s Top Stories from August 2014

Posted by | Sep 1, 2014

At ExitEvent, we want you up on all the topics trending and news happening in the Triangle, so here’s a feature we run after each month ends recapping the most popular 10 stories and posts on our site. They’re ranked below based on page views. No. 1 went viral on Reddit last week and got developers around the world fired up about hiring practices. Readers were also pretty interested in new initiatives by and for female entrepreneurs, and August’s national-in-scope bitcoin conference. We had a couple intriguing commentaries on the state of venture capital in our region. And everyone...

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Startup Jobs, the Weekly Round-up

Posted by | Aug 18, 2014

Still looking for that perfect job? Your perfect employer may still be looking for you too. May you find the light to your bug that makes your heart fill up with love sprinkles (for all the Bachelor fans out there). AnyCloudAnyCloud, an NC IDEA winner, wants a CTO to join the team. If you have a strong background in mobile, web and cloud technologies, email your excellent credentials to bjenkins@anycloud.co. Device MagicCalling all marketing gladiators, Device Magic wants you to work your magic and be its first marketing hire. Device Magic helps businesses cut out paper and improve productivity...

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WATCH: UNC Students Pitch Legal Stats, Making Sense of Crime and Court Data

Posted by | Aug 5, 2014

Say you’re accused of a legal offense and you have to make the decision to fight it or plead guilty and hope for the best. Besides the advice of lawyers, there’s little hard data out there to help you make the decision. But Legal Stats is out to reverse that assumption. A team of UNC students found that data (at least in North Carolina) and is determined to make it usable. The plan for Legal Stats is to develop an algorithm that factors your offense, the arresting officer, race, age, neighborhood and the judge’s record to determine the likely...

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N.C. Fares Poorly in Recent Venture Capital Data, But Does It Really Matter?

Posted by | Aug 3, 2014

* Insider Perspective: While N.C. hasn’t seen as much of an increase in VC investments as the rest of the country, according to Caplain, the number of individual angel investors and angel groups in N.C., and subsequently their investments, have risen significantly the past few years. Proof of the rise in angel groups and angel investing comes in ExitEvent reports from March and May (after several angels came deal-hunting to the ExitEvent Social in Raleigh). And N.C. seems to be following a national trend. As seen in Figure 1, data from the Center for Venture Research at the University...

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New Freemium App Greens JouleBug for National Growth

Posted by | Jul 29, 2014

Williard is well-known in the Triangle tech community. He graduated from N.C. State University with a degree in mechanical engineering, then worked at a few design firms in Charlotte before going back for his master’s degree at State. In 1984, he started I-Cubed, which developed and sold educational design software (Today, it’s an enterprise IT consulting firm). He sold it to Adobe in 2005, and immediately dove into the sustainability movement. When the idea for JouleBug came along, he found a partner in San Francisco developer James Wicker, who also sold a company (Navisware) to Adobe in 2005. They...

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

Posted by | 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...

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Fashion, Robots, Music, Social Enterprise: Meet the New ThinkHouse Fellows

Posted by | Jul 25, 2014

Rodar decided to start his own line last December, and so far, his SALVO LLC bags have received rave reviews on social media and from bloggers and suppliers. Now, he is creating a line of book bags that will be manufactured out of a small village in Spain. Why Spain you ask? Because according to Rodar, “everybody who’s somebody in the leather goods industry manufactures there (Gucci and Prada to name a few).” Nine months from now, Rodar says he thinks ThinkHouse will have helped him establish his brand. Six others with equally ambitious goals will join Simpson and...

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