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A restaurant employee walks in the rain to a white car to hand off a mean ordered from the Swipeby app.
Entrepreneurship

Swipeby: Lifeline for Restaurants

April 1, 2020
It wasn't supposed to be like this. We’re supposed to be celebrating the arrival of spring by sharing a laugh while we wait for another round of drinks. We’re supposed to be enjoying the game with a brew and a slice. We’re supposed to be…
crane room event space
Entrepreneurship

5 Innovation Quarter Resources to Help Grow Your Business

February 26, 2020
Explore five business resources in the Innovation Quarter that can help your business grow—from pitch practice to growth space. As Winston-Salem leads the nation in small business growth, many entrepreneurs in the Piedmont Triad are looking to capitalize on the resources of the City of…
Allan Younger
Community, Entrepreneurship

Grow The Personal Brand: Allan Younger Answers Your Questions

December 16, 2019
With a thriving community of thinkers, doers and makers, the Innovation Quarter’s vibrancy comes from its diversity—a broad mix of creatives, entrepreneurs, scientists, students and executives. Every day is flurry of activity from the Small Business Center Launch Challenge Showcase to Venture Café Winston-Salem’s Thursday…
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…

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