Blog Profile / Southeast VC
| URL : | http://southeastvc.blogs.com/southeast_vc | |
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| Filed Under: | Business & Finance / Venture Capital | |
| Posts on Regator: | 62 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.3 | |
| Archived Since: | January 21, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Paradoxos 2013
David and I will be at Paradoxos 2013 next week in Durham. This is a 2 day festival with pitches from entrepreneurs and technology panels. And they are keeping it fun highlighting regional bands, beer and food. Thanks to all...
SEVC - Quick Recap
David and I spent the last 2 days at the Southeast Venture Conference. The 7th annual conference was in Charlotte for the first time. The conference was completely sold out and I was told there was a long waiting list....
Southeast Venture Conference - Charlotte
We're looking forward to the 2 day Southeast Venture Conference, which will be held next week in Charlotte. It is the first time Charlotte has hosted SEVC. I was in Charlotte yesterday for a few hours and there is definitely...
Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Intel and Grotech Coming to Raleigh for Entrepreneurs' Series
Join us for Entrepreneurs' Series: Venture Outlook in Raleigh the morning of January 30th. Check out the lineup and to register here. Panelists include: Jed Carlson, President and Co-Founder, ReverbNation Brian Carney, Principal, Harbert Andy Dreyfuss, Piedmont Angel Network Mark...
Startup Summit
If you haven't registered for Startup Summit downtown Raleigh next week, this post will save you a little bit of money. It is $95 to go and if you use "eseries", you will save 20%. Check out the list of...
WeddingWire Raises $25 Million
Congratulations to the team at WeddingWire. Two days ago, WeddingWire announced they raised $25 million from Spectrum Equity. We met Tim Chi CEO of WeddingWire at one of our Entrepreneurs' Breakfasts in Reston Virginia over 5 years ago now. We...
BrightContext
We announced our investment in Arlington, Va-based BrightContext. They provide a cloud based platform to filter and perform calculations on streams of data in-flight and they power real time data communication in apps. This is our third seed investment from...
Seed Capital
We hosted another Entrepreneurs' Series on Tuesday last week in Raleigh and we focused all of it on raising seed capital. With more new companies sprouting in the region, we are getting asked about sources of seed stage capital more...
Hackathon
I was one of three judges last Friday afternoon at the First Annual Automated Insights Hackathon. Thanks to their CEO/founder Robbie Allen for inviting me to participate. I really enjoyed the opportunity. As background on the format, their Hackathon started...
Entrepreneurs' Series
Thanks to everyone that came out last week for Entrepreneurs' Series in Raleigh. As always, we put out a survey afterwards and the feedback was over the top positive. 98.1% rated the content/speakers we had as "excellent" or "above average"...
RDU to SFO
Great news for the region! An announcement was made today about a direct flight to/from Raleigh to San Francisco. From this, I think we will see a boost to: west coast VCs being more willing to invest in NC west...
We're Getting More Attention
Not a lot of time to do a big post this morning, but here are two articles I read over the last few days that I liked and thought they would be worth sharing here. Continued great news for the...
Exciting Job Opportunity for an Experienced Controller
A company I have been involved with for a while is seeking to hire an experienced controller to be in Durham, NC. The reason why I think it is such an exciting opportunity is that I love the team and...
Startup Madness
Scott Kelly and a few others banded together last year to create Startup Madness in Durham. The purpose was to showcase technology companies being worked on by college students. He does this by creating a competition between the students where...
Startups: Durham Wants You
This is a cool, creative idea. The Durham Chamber put together a package to lure a startup to set up downtown Durham, NC. They are giving away the world's smallest office, which they are calling The Smoffice. It will be...
Triangle Startup Factory Re-Launched
The RTP area got another boost with last night's announcement that Triangle Startup Factory will be re-launched. The North Carolina-based accelerator will be run by Chris Heivly and Dave Neal. Chris is a good friend, is very passionate about startups...
Entrepreneurial Resources
We've been handing out our list of Entreprneurial Resources during our Entrepreneur's Breakfasts that we've hosted at our office. But I am including it here -> Download SCV Entrepreneurial Resources - Jan 2012. It lists out regional events, funding sources...
Venture Outlook 2012
My partner David Jones and I launched Entrepreneur's Series earlier this year and based on its initial success, we ended up hosting 7 events throughout the year. Topics and speakers varied. We brought in some of the region's most successful...
Build a Software Company Without Capital. These Guys Will Tell You How
Good article in today's News & Observer titled Good Time to Start a Software Company. I enjoyed participating. With all the celebration by the press and blogs around companies that raise piles of cash, its great to see attention on....
Monster Week in the Triangle
Next week is one of the most packed weeks I have seen for the entrepreneurial and tech community in the Triangle. And I'm really looking forward to it. I know there is more going on than this, but here are...