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Startups Dodge Balls for Charity

Posted by | Oct 2, 2013

Not every day needs to be about validation and valuation. This coming Saturday, a bunch of local Triangle companies, including several startups, will go balls out to support a local charity, thanks to the organizational efforts of Magnus Health and a whole lot of sponsors and dodgeballers. As part of its drive to help the Boys & Girls Clubs of Wake County, Magnus decided they wanted to get the kids their own bus. Buses are expensive, so they turned to their friends and friends of friends and thus the RDUIDCC (RDU International Dodgeball Charity Challenge) was born. Note that...

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Startups, Free Beer, No Rules, Tonight

Posted by | Feb 17, 2013

Tonight in downtown Raleigh, a veritable supergroup of entrepreneurs and investors will gather for the 15th ExitEvent Startup Social. Billed as an anti-networking event and limited to verified entrepreneurs and investors, it’s like a punk rock version of a startup community — formed completely from grass roots by entrepreneurs, spun way out of control, and held together by the good nature of a few volunteers, who do this simply because it needs to be done. There are no sponsors, there are no sales pitches, there is no guarantee that you’ll get to chat with Johnny BigExit or Jane ManagingPartner....

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Guess What? Startups Die, Regardless of a Series A Crunch

Posted by | Jan 8, 2013

Last week, I turned a seemingly innocent column that I wrote for the N&O about a college kid making good with a startup into a piece published here at ExitEvent where I believe I may have poked a hole in the copycat startup bubble. In that same evil-twin fashion, my N&O column yesterday was a well-received, almost feelgood piece about how the Series A Crunch won’t impact the Triangle Startup Scene. But here you’ll get the darker side of the story. That article was really about the fact that startups die. It’s all part of the circle of entrepreneurial...

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