Articles by Pete McEntegart

About Pete McEntegart

I've worn many hats, but my current chapeau* is as Managing Editor of GrepBeat, which covers the Raleigh-Durham tech scene, especially tech startups. Sign up for our Tuesday-Thursday email newsletter at grepbeat.com. Hope to see you around the Triangle! (*chapeau is French for "pretentious")

Bright Wolf Brings Teeth to Industrial IoT Solutions

December 4, 2018 Pete McEntegart

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. […]

Teamworks HQ: Where The Walls Actually Talk

December 4, 2018 Pete McEntegart

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 […]

Toss The Keys—Spiffy Announces Agreements with 13 Big Car Brands

November 14, 2018 Pete McEntegart

Durham’s Get Spiffy already makes getting a car wash or oil change pretty easy—you book them on the Spiffy app, and they come to your parked car while you’re at […]

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Setting, Scoring, and Announcing Goals All in a Day’s Work For Minter

November 13, 2018 Pete McEntegart

Wade Minter wears many hats, and that has nothing to do with the fact that he has no hair. (Full disclosure: he shaves his scalp admirably clean, rather than clinging […]

Persistence Pays Off For Reale and Durham’s ProcessMaker

October 25, 2018 Pete McEntegart

When Brian Reale first founded ProcessMaker in 2000, it ran out of money within a year and then went into a corporate coma for five more. But he persisted, and […]

Latest Chapter in Oakley’s Story is Helping Other Startup Execs Tell Their Own

October 24, 2018 Pete McEntegart

Tim Oakley is on a roll. You get the sense that he usually is. For someone who began his professional life as an accountant and has spent the bulk of […]

A Beer With… Jesse Jones, Fourscore Law

September 25, 2018 Pete McEntegart

Last Thursday, we sat down with Jesse Jones—the founding partner of Fourscore Business Law and one of the Triangle’s most active lawyers for startups—at Raleigh’s Lonerider Brewery for the first […]

Three Questions With… Adam Smith, Automated Insights

September 18, 2018 Pete McEntegart

For nearly two decades, Adam Smith has experienced the Triangle’s startup community from virtually every angle. After getting his MBA from UNC’s Kenan-Flagler business school in 1999, he spent nearly […]

Dropsource A Low-Code High Performer

September 13, 2018 Pete McEntegart

It must have seemed like a good idea at the time for the Fortune 500 retail brand to create an internal “digital innovation” team. “They got some of their developers […]

Roobrik Completes $1.4M Seed Round

September 11, 2018 Pete McEntegart

Roobrik, the Durham-based startup that enables older adults and families researching online to make more informed decisions about senior living facilities and home healthcare, has completed a $1.4M seed round. […]