Ashley Hughes connected on 86.4% (38-for-44) of the free throws she took during her four-year career with the University of Tulsa women’s basketball team, the second-highest mark in school history. So far in her professional […]
A few months ago, I was representing our venture fund, Cofounders Capital, at a monthly investor syndicate meeting. The meeting was made up of five local angel funds/networks, two local VC firms, and a few […]
In today’s market, a competitor can displace you in a matter of months, not years. Brad McGinity, the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at 15Five, and his crew know this. Technology combined with a new generation of […]
Since 7th grade, Khushbu Madhiwala had always wanted to be a dentist. But everything changed when she had the idea for Sudsy during her junior year at NC State. Two years ago, Madhiwala was doing […]
Joe Sinsheimer is the Managing Director of the Wolfpack Investor Network (WIN), the NC State-affiliated angel group. Sinsheimer has been involved in angel investing for 25 years. He has been a member of four different […]
Alain Glanzman found that whenever he lost a credit card, not only did he have to deal with the normal logistical issues of having it replaced, but he also had to update his subscription services, […]
This fall, Dr. Allison Mathews met a young woman who had fallen in love. But there was a complication: her partner was HIV-positive and didn’t have access to medication. Mathews was uniquely positioned to help. […]
Bright Wolf, which bills itself as an “industrial connected product solutions” company, happens to have its headquarters in the same building in downtown Durham as GrepBeat, the old SouthBank location. In an effort to be […]
The sports memorabilia collection that covers seemingly every wall, countertop, and exposed surface area at Teamworks’ Durham headquarters started innocently enough. A few years back, CEO Zach Maurides asked for a Duke football helmet to […]
Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) weren’t always the hot buzzwords they’re known as today. But over the past decade, business leaders and entrepreneurs have come to realize the importance of these applications and […]
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