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Month: October 2020

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Finmark Makes Excel Look So Last Year—And Has A Fresh $5M To Show For It

October 29, 2020 Audrey Selley
It’s crazy how the tiniest alterations can end up changing something entirely. One too many teaspoons of salt ruins a recipe. One misplaced letter in code and the whole computer […]
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Meet… Susan Bell, Co-Founder, Vertical IQ

October 29, 2020 Tricia Lucas
Meet Susan Bell, Co-Founder and Executive VP of Sales of Vertical IQ, a Raleigh-based industry research firm that helps thousands of professionals who advise small and medium-sized businesses. The company […]
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With Corporate Travel Slowed To Crawl, nXus Software Pivots To Leisure Space

October 27, 2020 Suzanne Blake
Although it might seem long ago, there was a time where business traveling was much more common, and companies had to choose the best place for these business meetings. Launch […]
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LabMojo Is The Database For Grad Students Searching For Research Labs

October 27, 2020 Suzanne Blake
Many startups emerge as a solution from a founder’s own experiences with a problem. This was the case for Chapel Hill-based startup LabMojo, co-founded by UNC juniors Michael Marand and […]
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Pete Meets… David Cummings, Founder of Pardot

October 27, 2020 Suzanne Blake
David Cummings is an entrepreneur who started young and never stopped. Beginning when he was an undergraduate at Duke University, Cummings has founded or co-founded 10 startups with a collective […]
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MedMeetsTech Introduces New, Picturesque Way To Track Food Intake

October 22, 2020 Laura Brummett
What do you get when you mix the medical world with technology? Here’s one answer: a new Triangle-based startup called MedMeetsTech and its app, FoodSnap. The women-led startup is aiming […]
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NanoVest Is Universities’ One-Stop Shop To Assess Financial Potential Of New Tech

October 22, 2020 Suzanne Blake
Along with the innovation of new tech from the tech transfer industry among universities comes a hefty amount of market research. But at Durham-based NanoVest, innovators are helping other innovators.  […]
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The Download: Michael Jones, CEO, Spoonflower

October 20, 2020 Brooks Malone
Former eBay and Channel Advisor executive Michael Jones stepped into the CEO role at Durham-based Spoonflower in January, heading a company putting a 21st-century spin on a once-dominant North Carolina […]
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Self-Care Much More Than Just A Game To Raleigh’s Six Wing Studios

October 20, 2020 Suzanne Blake
As the nation faces a continuing mental health crisis likely exacerbated by the isolating times of Covid-19, video games may not be the first thing you think about when it […]
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Exit Stories: Matt Schmidt, DZone

October 20, 2020 Audrey Selley
On this week’s episode of the Exit Stories podcast, host Kevin Mosley talked to serial entrepreneur Matt Schmidt, who co-founded DZone (currently rebranded as Devada) in 2001 as a freshman […]

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