Lifelong friends Will Newman and Trey Hicks met while growing up in the same High Point, N.C., neighborhood a few thousand feet away from each other. Twenty-five years later, the duo runs a startup together, […]

One night almost 10 years ago, Crystal Dreisbach abruptly sat up in bed. She had figured it out. She knew what the world needed: reusable takeout containers.  After the idea began to form in her […]

Many startups shoot for impressive year-over-year growth of 100 percent—for the math-challenged, that’s doubling in size. Spiffy just managed that feat day-over-day. The RTP-based mobile car-care service announced today that it has roughly doubled in […]

As the co-owner of The Hat Factory, a music venue in Richmond, about a decade ago, Ben Wingrove was in the perfect position to envision his current startup SchedulePop. But we’ll get to that in […]

Co-Founders Brendan Szulik and Daniel Caldwell first developed the idea for Raleigh-based Silbo around five years ago when an umpire ruined CEO Szulik’s younger brother’s baseball game. “My Co-Founder looked at me and instead of […]

Despite the potential lucrativeness of sales jobs, the sales industry has a turnover rate almost twice that of the American workforce, according to statistics from the Harvard Business Review. Chapel Hill-based RepVue, an online rating […]

Being a single, working parent—or a parent, period—has its challenges, including the frustrating inability to be everywhere at once. This is one struggle Stacy Shannon knew well as the then-single mom of three children: she […]

Picture a set on the movie Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. A scene of piles of chests filled with gold, jewels and other treasures. To Luke Marshall, that same scene is […]