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Coursefork Among Six Chosen For The Startup Factory Fall 2013 Class

Posted by | Aug 25, 2013

By now, you probably know that the Triangle’s institution of acceleration, the recently renamed Startup Factory, has chosen six young startups to make up their Fall 2013 class. If you haven’t heard, they are Coursefork, FlagTap, Szl, HomeWellness, Brevado, and 4Soils. This may mean nothing to you, unless you happen to know who these companies are. To be honest, I’m only familiar with three of them. You can find out more in the links in “Companies We Mentioned…” below. But I want to tell you about Elliott, because you’re going to want to know. Elliott Hauser is the founder...

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Durham Next Starts With Triangle Startup Factory Pitch Day

Posted by | Jun 4, 2013

I first met BringMeThat‘s Michael LaMarca at Tech Jobs Under the Big Top, and he had been in Durham for about five minutes. He immediately struck me as energetic and engaging. Good thing, I thought, because the business he’d chosen (along with CEO Jason Liang) was a tough one — local service on a national scale, competition from all corners, hot food that needs to stay hot, lazy drivers. Yuck. LaMarca has embraced the Durham scene as if he’s been here all his life. You don’t see him out too often, but when you do, he’s having a good...

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Arcametrics is Succeeding Quietly

Posted by | Apr 15, 2013

Arcametrics is one of those startups that I’ve come into contact with several times, mentioned in an article or two, but never really got to know. Don’t blame me, they’re quiet — quiet in the sense that they don’t make a lot of noise around what they’re doing, but when people see what they’re up to, the value is kind of obvious. It’s the kind of thing you really don’t have to talk about. But for the record, Arcametrics’ proprietary technology looks for patterns to tie together anonymous online behavioral data with offline transactional data. They find audiences that...

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Fostering Innovation at the American Underground Hack-A-Thon

Posted by | Feb 25, 2013

If you’re a creator of any type, you know the feeling. That magic moment when disparate points of view, mistakes and sidetracked efforts coalesce into something wonderful. Like when a guitarist in a band plays a killer riff during practice and the bass and drums fall into a hook that no one in the room can get out of their head. Its the kind of feeling that creators and entrepreneurs live for. Its also the kind of feeling that Kristian Bouw, CEO of Thryv, is facilitating with the American Underground Hack-A-Thon on Saturday March 2nd. For those of you...

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Startup Funding: 7 Mistakes to Avoid on an Application

Posted by | Jan 16, 2013

Just about every day I’m presented with at least one question from an entrepreneur looking to learn more about the funding process. How do you get introductions to venture capitalists? What do you say when you finally get in front on one? Are there back doors? Well, yeah, actually. It’s all secret handshakes and code names. Times have changed. Used to be you could walk into any VC firm in the country with a business plan and a smile and be guaranteed at least a warm handshake and a pleasant no. These days, the whole process is upside down:...

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Triangle Startup Factory Graduates Five Companies – Then What?

Posted by | Nov 27, 2012

Triangle Startup Factory will release five completely and robustly accelerated companies out into the wild tomorrow. They are Alekto, Offline Media, AIP, PopUp, and Able Device, and I can assure you that they’ve all been ridiculously busy molding their companies into viability. It’s a big deal. TSF’s Chris Heivly and Dave Neal pull in investors from all over the country, there’s a huge turnout, and it’s a one-of-a-kind event here in the Triangle. Also yeah, sorry, the thing is sold out. So tomorrow, starting at TSF’s Pitch Day, you’ll hear a whole lot more about these five companies and...

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