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Town of Cary Makes Like A Startup In RIoT’s Accelerator Program

August 16, 2022 Suzanne Blake
The Town of Cary made history this summer for entering the RIoT Accelerator Program (RAP) not as an early-stage company looking to grow, but instead as a town looking to […]
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Startup Life’s Dark Secret: Founders Often Face Mental Health Challenges

July 13, 2022 Suzanne Blake
Aaron Houghton, who ran Morrisville-based iContact from age 20 to 30 before he ultimately sold the company in 2012 for $169 million, could have been perceived as the picture-perfect representation […]
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With VC Funding For Women Founders So Low, How’d These Women Defy The Odds?

June 30, 2022 Suzanne Blake
Women founders received only 2 percent of venture capital funding in the United States last year, according to a report by Pitchbook. It’s a gender gap that has long prevailed […]
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A Housing Shortage Grows, But How Will It Impact The Triangle’s Tech Ecosystem?

June 28, 2022 Suzanne Blake
North Carolina communities will face a gap of around 900,000 housing units by 2030 if nothing changes, an executive at the North Carolina Budget & Tax Center said in April. […]
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Burned-Out Healthcare Pros Increasingly Launching Their Own Ventures

June 23, 2022 Suzanne Blake
As the pandemic brought intense pressure for all frontline workers, healthcare employees particularly faced an incredible amount of burnout and uncertainty. Since then, there’s been a reckoning of sorts. Overall […]
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The Rate Of Female Comp Sci Majors Is Still Dispiritingly Low. What Can Be Done?

April 13, 2022 Suzanne Blake
In the 1991 class of Duke’s electrical engineering program, Vickie Gibbs was one of only four women in a group of 120. But it actually wasn’t until after college that […]
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Triangle Tech Companies Weigh The Trade-Offs Of A Four-Day Work Week

February 3, 2022 Suzanne Blake
When San Francisco-based fintech Bolt implemented a four-day work week for its employees in January, it got tech companies talking even more about a buzzy topic. Could a four-day work […]
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These Triangle Founders Are Using “Good” Tech To Address Tech’s Dark Side

February 1, 2022 Suzanne Blake
Although not typically discussed by most tech founders, there are a myriad of problems that technology can create. An undeniable dark side. It’s most notably seen in the low self-esteem […]

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