Entrepreneur Volunteer Leadership is an underlying super-power of Nonprofit Organizations. CED has been fortunate to partner with exceptional resources that contribute to strengthening its support programs for entrepreneurial companies, like the Venture Mentoring Service. We sat down with Barry Borgerson, Lead Mentor to discuss his impact over the last decade. Why did you gravitate to the Venture Mentoring Service (VMS)? I was invited to the […]
Entrepreneur Virtual Conferences: Moving Forward One of the nicetiesā 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 āthe largest gathering of venture investors in the southeastā and truth be told they are both fairly large regional conferences,both really important and both really good at […]
Entrepreneur, Partners Walk-ins donāt have to be complicated | Vaporware Like most of us, Dan Moore and his team at Vaporware have spent the last few weeks attending the numerous virtual events that have popped up replacing traditional in-person and networking events. However, one in particular stands out. At the Raleigh Chamber of Commerceās small business roundtable, their team heard concerns from fellow small business […]
Entrepreneur, Partners, Podcasts Venture Connect Online – Podcast | Working and collaborating with University Technology Transfer Offices The third podcast ofĀ Venture Connect onlineĀ 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 […]
Entrepreneur, Partners, Podcasts Venture Connect Online ā Podcast |Building and Managing your Board The second podcast of Venture Connect online with partners Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati provided some educational content on building and managing your board of directors. Megan Baier of WSGR interviewed Paul Garofolo of Locus Biosciences This is a great listen if you are a first time CEO. Paul is talking openly about a āmisfireā he […]
Entrepreneur, Partners, Podcasts Venture Connect Online – Podcast |How to Sell Yourself and Your Company to Investors Venture Connect online is a 3-week virtual version of our annual live event Venture Connect. As a part of hosting this event one of our partners Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati provided education content. Michael Hostetler and Sabrina Poulos both with strong ties to North Carolina interviewed Ben Scruggs of Hatteras venture partners and Jernej […]