The Secret Sauce of CED’s GRO Program

The most important aspect of any accelerator or incubator program is the experts you will meet, learn from, and work with. CED is blessed to have a deep and rich network of experts it called on as we put together our GRO incubator. We refer to these folks as CED’s “secret sauce.”

Virtual Conferences: Moving Forward

One of the niceties’ of building a tech company in the southeast is the friendly competition we have between the various regions. CED Venture Connect and Venture Atlanta both claim to host “the largest gathering of venture investors in the southeast” and truth be told they are both fairly large regional conferences,both really important and both really good at […]

Venture Connect Online – Podcast | Working and collaborating with University Technology Transfer Offices

The third podcast of Venture Connect online with partners Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati: The three great universities that form the vertices of the Triangle of North Carolina are engines of innovation for its ecosystems. Every year these great universities convert billions of dollars of research into new companies like Precision Biosciences, Stride bio, Carbon, Quintiles, Cree […]

Cash is King Part II (So now what? )

By now you have settled into the new normal–working from home, balancing home activities and work activities from the same house/apartment/room/dining room table.  Being on too many zoom calls, team scrums, virtual company meetings/happy hours.   Hopefully, you have also gotten a good handle on your actual cash flow? (see cash is king part I). You […]