Triangle Startup Weekend

Next Up For Triangle Startup Weekend: Social Impact

Posted by Shannon Cuthrell | Jan 8, 2016

This story was originally published in July 2015 before organizers rescheduled the Startup Weekend to February 2016. It has been updated to reflect the change. Startup Weekends are known for inspiring people over the 54 hours that they take place. But tuning into social impact is something that has come to fruition recently in Startup Weekends in places like Pakistan, South Africa, India and Argentina. And now—the Triangle. Between 50 and 100 innovators will gather at RTP’s The Frontier February 5-7 for the first local Startup Weekend Social Impact. Business ideas dreamt up over the weekend will have one thing in common—...

Why the Carolina Challenge might be the best startup pitch event in the Triangle

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Nov 22, 2013

48 young companies — some with revenue — three stages and one hour.

Chapel Hill’s first Triangle Startup Weekend delivers promising results

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Nov 19, 2013

Editor’s note: Ann Johnson is founder and CEO of Local-Ventures, which is based in Chapel Hill. She is a contributor to WRALTechWire and the ExitEvent websites. The ExitEvent is put on by Joe Procopio, an entrepreneur and also a WRALTechWire columnist. This post was first published at ExitEvent and is reprinted with permission. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Triangle Startup Weekend has been making rounds throughout the Triangle for a while, but Friday, Saturday, and Sunday marked the event’s first stop in Chapel Hill. Many of us were wondering how it would turn out. To start, I can say that it...