Startups

A Carolina Beach-based startup, Skillmaker.ai, can cut down the time it takes to train an auto technician from two years to just 25 days, according to the company’s founder and CEO Robin Cowie. The platform uses extended reality (XR), including

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2396970/episodes/16748271To mark ten episodes of Ecosysteming, host Thom Ruhe is joined by Jim Roberts, Founder of the Network for Entrepreneurs in Wilmington, the WALE Angel Network, and NC IDEA ECOSYSTEM partner. With years of experience as an ecosystem leader and

Network for Entrepreneurs in Wilmington has won a grant from NC IDEA to support a new program for local startups and entrepreneurs. NC IDEA announced on Thursday the 17 organizations in the state chosen from 65 applicants that are recipients

Yes, George Taylor and the team at Tru Colors Brewing are at it again. https://www.forbes.com/sites/taranurin/2021/04/14/molson-coors-buys-its-sixth-craft-brewery/?sh=fde7b942c168 My favorite part of the article …. “Is this the Forbes that writes about the billionaires?” he asked at the end of his interview, a

The startup ecosystem is a living and growing organism that most cities are trying to add to their modern economic development strategy for job creation. The startup ecosystem is typically a very positive kumbaya environment. There are lots of smiles

You may remember recently seeing Dr. Karl Ricanek of Lapetus Solutions speaking at the virtual 1 Million Cups Wilmington. He mentioned that Lapetus Solutions was growing by selling into the Asian markets. https://www.wilmingtonbiz.com/technology/2021/02/19/lapetus_zooms_in_on_asian_market/21494 Here is the 1 Million Cups video

After we pushed our members to apply through our newsletter, Wilmington had the most applications of any city outside of Raleigh / Durham for the annual CED Venture Connect Conference. (I MAY have won a bottle of bourbon as a

Thanks to the great people at Hypepotamus from Atlanta for accepting my invitation to write a story about our entrepreneur ecosystem in Wilmington NC And they wrote THREE articles and made Wilmington the focus of their newsletter. And guess what?

There are many factors that make a city underrated. And chances are that most of those factors are good reasons for you to move there. From the number of jobs to how many workers in that specific field and even

In working with entrepreneurs throughout North Carolina over the last 20 years, I have always heard about the FOMO of angel investors and venture capitalists described like this….While investors hate losing money in a startup deal that doesn’t work out,