In-person pitch events are back, and RIoT is kicking the doors open next Tuesday with a night that pushes the bounds of traditional three-dimensional reality. The RIoT Your Reality Augmented Reality Challenge Final Pitch is […]
If there’s one thing Sparc founder Laurel Djoukeng loves doing, it’s helping people—including himself—reach their full potential. Three years after Djoukeng began his career in 2008 as an investment analyst on Wall Street, Djoukeng started […]
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 reason being that employees feel […]
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 of dollars in revenue every […]
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 go to graduate school. Scholly, […]
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 critical mass, or has to […]
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 access to pro-bono tech talent. […]
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 startup saw this information gap […]
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 of the day he was […]
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 of trash ends up in […]
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