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Startup North Carolina Holds First Working Session

Posted by | Dec 16, 2012

As I was in line get into the first Startup NC meeting since the kickoff back in August, I wound up in front of an entrepreneur with whom I had been having some conversations about seeking their Series A round. The good news was that they were about 2/3rds of the way to the finish line and it looked like it would close shortly. The bad news was that it’d been as painful as could be expected. But any time you go raise here, it’s painful. Comes with the territory. Talk turned to the much-hyped Series A Crunch —...

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Beyond Party Politics

Posted by | Nov 6, 2012

Quite honestly, it was never my plan to host a monthly party, Get together? Sure. Blow off steam? Most definitely. Limit the audience to entrepreneurs and investors? Absolutely. But as anyone who has ever hosted any kind of regular event will tell you, it’s an enormous pain in the ass to continuously pull it off. As for evidence of its necessity, I got a nice little reminder yesterday at Startup Summit during the panel on Entrepreneur Seed Stage Perspectives, when my robotic writing partner Robbie Allen, the founder and CEO of Automated Insights, answered a question about how budding...

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American Underground Taps Adam Klein From Durham Chamber to be Chief Strategy Officer

Posted by | Jul 19, 2012

In the two years that Adam Klein worked for the Durham Chamber of Commerce, he rewrote the book on how the public sector should support the entrepreneurial ecosystem. In that time, he came up with big ideas like Startup Stampede and The Smoffice. I’m biased, because his philosophy is the same as ExitEvent’s: “Listen to the entrepreneurs, give them the support, resources, and tools they need, then get out of the way.” So it makes perfect sense that Capitol Broadcasting, the company behind the American Underground entrepreneurial hub, snatched Adam from the public sector to what has become the...

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