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The life science industry is thriving these days in the Wilmington area, professionals in the field said at a recent event. Nearly 300 people from 15 states gathered in downtown Wilmington at the third annual Investor Buzz In at the Beach event, held May 16 at Cape Fear Community College’s Union Station. The event, hosted by the Network for Entrepreneurs...
Two decades ago, Wilmington’s tech scene had a much different landscape. “There was not much advocacy before 2013, not many people in the room,” said Jim Roberts, founder of Network for Entrepreneurs in Wilmington (NEW) and Wilmington Angels for Local Entrepreneurs (WALE). 2013 marked the start of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, headed...
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 immersive technologies like virtual reality and mixed reality, to train workers. Skillmaker.ai won the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) Venture...

NY Times has interesting opinion piece about small business owners

You can buy from your favorite small businesses now so they survive when we go out again. I have bought gift certificate from my...

Locally produced Podcast Soul Driven hosted by Ahna Hendrix w local entrepreneur Derek Schmidt

You know local marketing expert Ahna Hendrix, who attends our events when they are not on date night with Carlos. She has a podcast and...

Over 70% of small biz applied for federal loans, how are you being resilient?

Tracey Newkirk did a nice job talking resilience on Wilmington Business Journal podcast this week. Tune in to that on their Facebook page or...

LaunchBio is the only monthly event for startups in NC bigger than NEWilm – April 16

While they are a national org with Durham office, they are hosting an important webinar April 16 https://www.launchbio.org/feature/webinar-race-for-a-cure

National Speed Car Shop in Wilmington is hiring performance consultant on sales team

National Speed is in the WALE Angel Network portfolio and also part of the George Taylor family of businesses https://nationalspeedinc.com/careers/#op-387536-performance-consultant-central-sales-team  

GrepBeat Live podcast – Episode 2 NEXT Friday, April 17 for Entrepreneurs

I liked episode one with friends and past speakers from IDEA Fund Partners, Bull City Venture Partners and CoFounders Capital. Episode 2 has more entrepreneurs...

Since JOBS are the HOT topic on this site, here is a guide to find your next career post pandemic

A guide from our friends at WRALTechWire on finding a new job https://www.wraltechwire.com/2020/04/09/how-do-you-find-a-job-in-this-virus-crisis-3-experts-offer-advice/

Wilmington based Greenlight Ventures announces new telemedicine product w NC Medical Society

Wilmington's Greenlight Ventures forms partnership with the NC Medical Society for new telemedicine product during virus pandemic (Transparency: Keith Markfield of Greenlight Ventures is a...

Wilmington NC based Bitty and Beau’s Coffee Shop gets the federal loan with Live Oak Bank

Great example of leadership by Live Oak Bank https://www.foxnews.com/media/coffee-shop-receives-loan-through-sba-program

One of the WALE Angel Network portfolio companies in the news, VitalFlo

VitalFlo is featured in GrepBeat this morning. https://grepbeat.com/2020/04/09/vitalflo-and-wellistic-meeting-new-health-challenges-caused-by-covid-19/