2021 – Page 9 – GrepBeat

Green Places Makes It Easy For Small Businesses To Go Carbon-Neutral

July 15, 2021 Audrey Selley

It’s time for employers to wake up and smell the (sustainably sourced) coffee: nearly half of U.S. employees are considering leaving their jobs in the coming months, with one primary […]

NC State Grads Develop A Code-Free Way For Websites To Load Faster

July 13, 2021 Audrey Selley

After two seconds of extra load time on website, 90% of web visitors leave completely. For online businesses in the U.S., the difference translates to losing potential sales and millions […]

MTM’s Platform Connects Minority Students To Scholarship Opportunities

July 13, 2021 Audrey Selley

It was late on a Thursday evening in 2015 and Jasmine Chigbu, then a recent Duke undergrad alumna, was nearing her third hour of searching for scholarships so she could […]

Vino Allows You To “Build Silicon Valley Companies Without Silicon Valley Capital”

July 8, 2021 Audrey Selley

Creating a successful software venture can sometimes require an exorbitant amount of money, time and expertise. Often a founder needs to raise a multi-million-dollar seed round just to achieve any […]

Technify Connects College Students To Pro-Bono Tech Projects Abroad

July 8, 2021 Audrey Selley

Duke students Qi Xuan Khoo and Anni Chen founded the startup Technify for two reasons: to give college students meaningful tech experience, and to provide social enterprises in developing countries […]

Research Startup Led By Duke Prof Builds Platform To Track Disease Outbreaks

July 6, 2021 Audrey Selley

The COVID-19 pandemic was exacerbated especially in the early stages by a lack of real-time and predictive data collected on the extent, location and spread of the disease. One Durham-based […]

For Starters: Putting The “Fun” In Fundraising

July 6, 2021 Audrey Selley

O.K., by this point, if you’ve been a regular listener of For Starters, Robbie Allen might have convinced you to start a company—or at least given enough tips on a […]

Tired Of Google’s Rabbit Holes? Top10Easy Simplifies Search By Clearing The Clutter

July 1, 2021 Audrey Selley

When Hal Sharpe Google-searched “restaurants in Raleigh” a few years ago and got over 100 million results, he thought to himself, this doesn’t seem necessary. After all, at the end […]

Not Sure If It’s Recycling Or Trash? Let Raleigh’s MyMatR Sort It Out For You

June 29, 2021 Audrey Selley

How good are Americans at recycling? Apparently not so great: only 34% of all recyclable material is actually recycled—the rest ends up in landfills. And on the flip side, lots […]

All Signs Point To Success For pro-UP’s Move Beyond Construction Signage

June 29, 2021 Audrey Selley

The construction bid cycle, which can take weeks, is reduced to hours with the bid support services of pro-UP. Founded by the wife-and-husband duo Rachel Miller and Dan Scranton, pro-UP […]