One Year Later, American Underground Doubles Footprint on Main Street7.24.14 -- Some predictions are merely predictions. Others are dead on. And American Underground gets credit for the latter.
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One Year Later, American Underground Doubles Footprint on Main Street7.24.14 -- Some predictions are merely predictions. Others are dead on. And American Underground gets credit for the latter.
Ask Scot Wingo: Coming Up With Your Big Idea, i.e. The Startup Idea Pattern7.21.14 -- Hey Scot, I've always had so many ideas swirling around but never felt drawn towards any one idea over the others. How were you able to come up with 3 ideas that were able to create such value?
ExitEvent's Top 10 Stories from June 20147.1.14 -- At ExitEvent, we want you up on all the topics trending and news happening in the Triangle, so here's a new feature we'll run after each month ends recapping the most popular 10 stories and posts on our site. They're ranked below based on page views.
$5.5M and The Associated Press: The Next Chapter of Automated Insights6.30.14 -- Automated Insights' storytelling robots got more legit today with a freshly-inked deal with the Associated Press and $5.5 million in new funding from all sorts of intriguing new investors.
Startup Jobs, the Weekly Round-up6.24.14 -- We know the job hunt can be stressful, so we've decided to help you out. So don't let the search get you down... Just keep swimming.
The Benchmark Study for N.C.'s Future in Entrepreneurship6.4.14 -- If the first half of 2013 was all about IPOs in North Carolina's startup community, then the second half was all about venture capital.
ESPN's FiveThirtyEight, Durham's Automated Insights Headline Basketball Analytics Summit5.2.14 -- Meet Debby Stroman, a PhD, UNC professor, former college basketball player and assistant coach, entrepreneur and sports business aficionado who is inspiring her students to start and launch businesses inspired by sport.
Tech Jobs Under the Big Top Kicks Off Paradoxos 20144.7.14 -- The most difficult thing about hosting a great event, if I may be so bold, is that you have to up the ante and keep it fresh -- every time out. I've made no bones about Tech Jobs Under the Big Top being my favorite local startup event.
Live from Google: Windsor Circle Wins Google Demo Day4.2.14 -- Honored and humbled. Those are the first two words that Windsor Circle CEO Matt Williamson could think of when I asked his feelings about winning the first-ever Google For Entrepreneurs Demo Day and receiving a $100K investment from Steve Case.
Traction Gets Automated Insights and Windsor Circle to Google Demo Day3.7.14 -- Automated Insights grew so quick last year that's it's offering $5K to anyone who refers the startup's next employees.
The Lowdown on Durham's Competition in Google's First-Ever Demo Day3.4.14 -- In case you missed the breaking news on TechWire today, Durham has two companies representing in Google for Entrepreneurs' first Demo Day in Palo Alto next month.
My Picks for the Full Steam Ahead Awards10.31.13 -- Last week, I took some time away from the grind to attend the WRAL TechWire Full Steam Ahead Awards, ironically hosted at the FullSteam Brewery in downtown Durham.
My Picks for the Full Steam Ahead Awards10.31.13 -- Last week, I took some time away from the grind to attend the WRAL TechWire Full Steam Ahead Awards, ironically hosted at the FullSteam Brewery in downtown Durham.
Startups Dodge Balls for Charity10.3.13 -- This coming Saturday, a bunch of local Triangle companies, including several startups, will go balls out to support a local charity, thanks to the organizational efforts of Magnus Health and a whole lot of sponsors and dodgeballers.
Automated Insights Launches SiteAi to Deliver Instant, Personalized Website Analytics Reports5.21.13 -- This morning, Automated Insights released SiteAi, a product that automatically and seamlessly combs through all of your website analytics data and emails you a daily or weekly report on your traffic.
Why Startups Need Ping Pong5.15.13 -- People constantly ask me how I manage to fit a full-time life at a VC-backed startup, 1000+ strong network of entrepreneurs and investors complete with daily content and monthly events, and -- oh yeah -- a family of five.
Teambuilding Without Teambuilding5.2.13 -- Yesterday, Automated Insights (my actual startup), spent the day trekking out to the country to spend four hours shooting at each other with paintballs. None of us are the paintball type.
NC IDEA Opens $50K Spring Startup Grant Cycle Today2.11.13 -- NC IDEA, the not-for-profit organization connected to Durham-based venture capital firm Idea Fund Partners, opens the application for its spring startup grant cycle today.
Automated Insights Makes Amazon Web Services Startup Challenge Semifinals12.31.12 -- Durham's big-data humanizer and personalized content creator Automated Insights, the company behind Yahoo Fantasy Football's automated weekly Matchup Recaps, has been chosen as one of 24 semifinalists in Amazon Web Services' 2012 Startup Challenge.
What I Did On My Startup Vacation11.27.12 -- How was your Thanksgiving? Because mine sucked. It had nothing to do with the holiday itself. That was awesome, probably the best 45 minutes I had all year. And it was actually kind of quiet on the work front, but I never stopped working.
Beyond Party Politics11.7.12 -- Quite honestly, it was never my plan to host a monthly party, Get together? Sure. Blow off steam? Most definitely. Limit the audience to entrepreneurs and investors? Absolutely.
An Insider's Guide to Surviving South by SouthEast11.5.12 -- Yeah, look, I know. I get it. Startup-related events are a drag on minding the store. And there's no way to hide or put sugar on the fact that this week is super-loaded with a perfect storm of events.
What You'll Hear at Startup Summit10.25.12 -- So not too long ago, I wrote about how the week of November 5th is going to be a very productive week of startup and technology goodness, kicking off with the ExitEvent Startup Social the night of Monday, 11/5 and wrapping up with the IS Rocks music fest
How Automated Insights Changed the Game of Fantasy Football9.12.12 -- Monday night I slapped shut the lid of my laptop having successfully completed the writing and editing process for millions of news articles. I'm not kidding. My freaking fingers are killing me.
Automated Insights Selected One of the Best Places to Work in the Triangle8.29.12 -- Automated Insights was one of 35 companies, including smallish startups Netsertive, Brooks Bell, HireNetworks, and Reverb Nation, selected by the Triangle Business Journal as a Best Place to Work in the Triangle.
When 16-Hour Days Just Aren't Enough8.8.12 -- A week or so ago I wrote an article called Startup Isn't a Lifestyle, which basically broke down into a gentle but firm suggestion that calling yourself an entrepreneur doesn't make you an entrepreneur. Note that there's no link to that article.
Southern Capitol Ventures Entrepreneurs Series Recap8.1.12 -- How do I know that Entrepreneurs Series was worth it? A) I was there at 7:30 in the morning. B) I took five pages of notes. C) I learned something.
NC IDEA $50K Grant Cycle Opens August 14th7.27.12 -- For years now, I've been calling the NC IDEA Grant the best kept startup secret in North Carolina. A non-profit sister program to local VC firm Idea Fund Partners, they grant up to $50,000 to six or so early-stage startups.
The Top Two Things Early Stage Startups Need the Most7.23.12 -- Back in April, I was driving home from an all-too-rare vacation, obviously thinking about work and ignoring the faint dialogue of the 20th in-car showing of Despicable Me when I got hit with inspiration.
Deconstructing the Hackathon7.9.12 -- The concept of a hackathon is not new. It's sort of new for me, as my coding days ended long before it became cool to put all the geeks in a room for a couple days and let them go apeshit.
Calling The Higher Education Bubble7.2.12 -- On Friday, Congress passed a measure keeping alive a program that temporary halves interest rates on federal student loans to 3.4% for another twelve months. Awesome news for rising college seniors everywhere, a big fat shrug for rising juniors.
North Carolina Companies to Watch Take Over the World6.12.12 -- CED just hosted an exclusive, fancy-pants dinner to honor its list of 25 North Carolina Companies to Watch. I couldn't make the dinner, so I decided to make my own, even more exclusive list.
There is No I in Startup5.24.12 -- I'm constantly blown away by the parallels between sports and startups. And not just the obvious lexicon similarities like win, game-changer, home run, swinging for the fences, layup, slam dunk and on and on.
Automated Insights, Argyle, EvoApp, Zift, Netsertive and 20 More Are Companies to Watch5.14.12 -- You hear a lot about two types of startups in this town -- the young and scrappy early stagers, those who are just making their mark with a seed round and a dream, and successful exiters, the Red Hats and the iContacts and what have you.
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