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In The Soup: Lessons From Launch

June 2, 2026 Katelyn Crespo
Happy In The Soup 🍲 Tuesday! Today, hosts Jenn Summe and Melissa Crosby are joined by Emil Runge of Launch Chapel Hill and Jordan McAlister of KPMG for their Spring finale episode! On this live finale our […]
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In The Soup: SEO in a World of AI

May 26, 2026 Katelyn Crespo
Happy In The Soup 🍲 Tuesday! Today, hosts Jenn Summe and Melissa Crosby are joined by Robert Birnbach of Curious Ant (our awesome sponsor!) and Christina Marie Noel of Noel & Co. They are giving their insight into […]
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In The Soup: Our Guide to Applying for Grants

May 19, 2026 Katelyn Crespo
Happy In The Soup 🍲 Tuesday! Today, hosts Jenn Summe and Melissa Crosby are joined by Scott McQuiggan of Social Cascade and Ellie McTaggart of Carolina Instruments. They’re speaking on a topic we often hear questions […]
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In The Soup: What Fundraising Can do to Your Cap Table

May 12, 2026 Katelyn Crespo
Happy In The Soup 🍲 Tuesday! Today, hosts Jenn Summe and Melissa Crosby are joined by Anna Tharrington of Hutchison Law and Nathan Snell of Intuit Mailchimp (formerly Raleon before acquisition). They’re chatting about a topic […]
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In The Soup: Getting Plugged in With a New Ecosystem

May 5, 2026 Katelyn Crespo
Happy In The Soup 🍲 Tuesday! Today, hosts Jenn Summe and Melissa Crosby are joined by Juan Garzón of Innovate Charlotte and Chip Kennedy of CivicReach. They are chatting about the ways they plugged into their […]
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In The Soup: How Much Product Research Do You Really Need to Do?

April 28, 2026 Katelyn Crespo
Happy In The Soup 🍲 Tuesday! Today, hosts Jenn Summe and Melissa Crosby are joined by Rob Cooley Jr. of Nuream and Jonathan Rollman of Beam Dynamics. They are presenting their perspectives […]
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In The Soup: All Things Product Feedback!

April 21, 2026 Katelyn Crespo
Happy In The Soup 🍲 Tuesday! Today, hosts Jenn Summe and Melissa Crosby are joined by David Shaner of Offline and Ashlyn Greer of Fashivly. They are sitting down to share all […]
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In The Soup: Navigating Expectations as a Portfolio Company

April 14, 2026 Katelyn Crespo
Happy In The Soup 🍲 Tuesday! Today, hosts Jenn Summe and Melissa Crosby are joined by Dr. Shante Williams of Black Pearl Global Investments and Mahati Sridhar of Revolution Ventures. They are […]
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In The Soup: How to Manage Building a Team and Your Family

April 7, 2026 Katelyn Crespo
Happy In The Soup 🍲 Tuesday! Our first official Tuesday episode! Today, hosts Jenn Summe and Melissa Crosby are joined by Runbin Dong of Scale Social and David Baxter of Big Pixel […]
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In The Soup: April Fools! Building Your Early Team…Again?

April 1, 2026 Katelyn Crespo
Happy In The Soup 🍲 Wednesday! We are so excited to be back for our Spring 2026 season. We are also excited to announce that this will be our last […]

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