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Similar values around promoting hyperlocal community events is what unites a two-year-old Raleigh startup and major news provider McClatchy in a new partnership to boost sales, audience and innovation efforts. Offline Media’s app lays out an assortment of events and experiences for folks to choose from as they plan their weekends, after-work activities and even spontaneous outings. It’s particularly popular among young people in mid-market cities. In Charlotte, Raleigh and Durham, one in three millennial women with iPhones now use Offline. Conveniently, these are all locations in which McClatchy has a firm footing. The Sacramento, Calif.-based newspaper publisher owns some media...

Each month in this column I ask a different question to you, the ExitEvent Entrepreneur. Thought provoking questions that are meant to get you to sit back and think. Each month I offer insight into the question, along with common mistakes made by (us) entrepreneurs, and a key take-away for you to think more about. My goal – to increase your self-awareness as an entrepreneur and a leader.  Insight—January is the month that is always the most predictable. The gym in our office building was quiet throughout the year, allowing those of us who chose to work out consistently a fairly...

We’re keeping an eye on cool career opportunities in the Triangle’s startup community, and publishing them every so often on ExitEvent. To submit a job opening, email shannon@exitevent.com. This month’s job list includes a mix of companies from around the Triangle, from social media archiving technology to digital textile printing to coding education. The types of positions range from mobile development and software engineering to enterprise sales and marketing strategy. Check out the full list below. (And here’s last month’s edition.) Xistance This Raleigh startup is getting ready to launch a web-based platform that lets users create timelines, maps and family...

When Raleigh entrepreneur and NC State professor Rosanna Garcia heard news last fall of a grassroots-led women’s march to take place in D.C., she knew it was her chance to lead by example.  A march on Washington, the founder of social media analytics provider Vijilent thought, was a much-needed vehicle by which women entrepreneurs could let their voices be heard about the gender injustice in their fields. Specific to female startup founders, there were the struggles with fundraising and networking and earning credibility with male counterparts. She quickly organized and fronted the money for a charter bus to bring as many...

In conjunction with North Carolina’s recent rise in tech opportunities and job openings, a new arena of education is rising to popularity. Campuses for coding education programs and organizations have sprouted up across the state for students to learn new skills they can bring to the job market—one that’s rapidly gearing more toward tech-centric professions. Yesterday, we published a deep dive into local code school movement. Included was an overview of four Triangle code schools that each have something unique to offer their students. (Recap on those below.) Today we revisit the topic in this list of code education programs...

Emerging from the 21st century’s tech boom is a generation of device-native children and adults facing a post-recession job market fueled by computer scientists and innovators. But tech skills don’t come easy. They’re no longer add-ons to a resume; they’re necessities. To meet this need among job seekers, a new genre of schooling has formed. It’s one that fits snug between creativity and productivity, a way of adding to people’s existing tech skills, while advancing them enough to impress hiring managers. Code schools and bootcamps have created a new wealth of resources for both established and aspiring coders. And...

As noted in the first installment of this series, the “hackerspace” concept is fueled by an effort to reclaim the word “hacker,” which is often misrepresented and misunderstood by the public. The representative spaces of the movement are redirecting the label toward innovation and creativity, fostering a new public image of collaboration and project-launching—what some might call “making and doing.” This story is part of a series that explores startups’ recent shift toward DIY, community-built innovation, as well as the organizations bringing hackerspaces to life in North Carolina.  Within downtown Greensboro’s collective of historic buildings and landmarks sits a space...

Throughout the journey that’s led Diane Durance to her new role as director of UNCW’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), connectivity has always been her mission.    From starting her own telecommunications engineering firm to leading a nonprofit that supports tech ventures throughout Michigan, Durance understands entrepreneurship as both founder and collaborator, and thus the need for continual symbiosis between those spheres.    Hired by the CIE in June 2016, Durance’s greatest challenge will be to translate her abilities to a Wilmington startup scene that is both promising yet fragmented. She’ll start by luring a national aquaculture innovation event...

We’re keeping an eye on cool career opportunities in the Triangle’s startup community, and publishing them every so often on ExitEvent. To submit a job opening, email shannon@exitevent.com. This month’s job list includes a mix of companies from around the Triangle, from a venture capital fund to local event discovery app to wearable sensor maker. The types of positions range from mobile and software engineering to graphic design, data science and marketing. Check out the full list below. (And here’s last month’s edition.) Allstacks After winning a grant in NC IDEA’s latest collective $250,000 funding cycle, the Raleigh startup that’s making onboarding/offboarding...