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Ecosystem, Entrepreneurship

Creative Collaborations for Greater Good

July 23, 2019
Building a collaborative ecosystem—a place where ideas grow, and businesses and people thrive—requires an unwavering vision and years of building and planning. It has been 25 years since Wake Forest School of Medicine and Winston-Salem State University moved a group of researchers into a former…
The bar area at Canteen Bistro and Market in downtown Winston-Salem
Community, Entrepreneurship

Claire Calvin on Entrepreneurship

May 10, 2019
On the way home from school every day, Claire Calvin and her 13-year-old son pass by a building on West End Boulevard that used to house the Snob Shop before the consignment store relocated to Burke Street. “That’s pretty smart,” Calvin’s son said on one…
The OrbitalRX founders in the background and a laptop with a sticker of their logo on the corner in the foreground.
Entrepreneurship

How OrbitalRX, the Innovation Quarter Start-Up Raised $1.4M

April 10, 2019
It’s an ever-increasing problem. You’re preparing for a scheduled medical procedure, and the hospital calls. There’s a shortage of one of the medications used in the procedure, and the procedure has to be delayed—for the foreseeable future. There just isn’t enough medication to go around.…
An unbaked pizza sitting in a wood-fired oven at Cugino Forno.
Entrepreneurship

Cugino Forno Comes to Bailey Power Plant

April 3, 2019
During an extended tour of Italy five years ago, Joseph Ozbey ate lunch at L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele, a pizzeria in Naples, made famous not only because of its legendary pizza, but because it was also featured in the film “Eat, Pray, Love,” starring Julia…
Community, Entrepreneurship

Making Winston-Salem’s Workforce More Inclusive

March 20, 2018
How Goler Community Development Corporation is Making Winston-Salem's Workforce More Inclusive Michael Suggs’ view of downtown Winston-Salem used to be, well, higher. In the almost 20 years that he worked in marketing and government relations for Reynolds American, Inc., he would look out from his…
Entrepreneurship

What Millennials Mean for Business

February 2, 2017
Two years ago, millennials surpassed Generation X and Baby Boomers to become the largest living generation in the United States. As their numbers in the workforce increase, so does their influence on workplace trends. Here are three ways these changing demographics affect the business world…
Entrepreneurship

A Start-up Grows Up in the Innovation Quarter

October 5, 2016
The moment they met, Rob Arnold knew Nathan Powell was the one to help him get Threat Sketch—Rob’s cybersecurity start-up—off the ground. “I showed Nathan what I was working on, and when he said ‘I know what you’re doing. I understand that,’ I was so…

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