Updates from iQ

Gathered around a whiteboard in the kitchen of their office suite, Sanjay Chopra and Karen Barnes are deep in conversation in a language that is all their own. Among the markings and whir of their brainstorm, a few words filter through the mass of information:…

What does it take to launch and grow a start-up? Local biomaterials company KeraNetics—a global leader in purified keratin medical products for wound care and tissue regeneration – is a prime example of an invention that spun out of a research laboratory at Wake Forest…

The demographics of entrepreneurship are changing. More and more, women are taking the lead. There are over 11 million women-owned businesses in the U.S., a number that has increased by 45 percent over the past nine years. Over that same span, the number of women-owned…

Entrepreneurs put the “art” into startup. Since there’s no one right way to succeed as a startup, the people who launch startups are characterized by flexibility, adaptability and the ingenuity to make a business out of an idea. The paths that entrepreneurs are taking to…

It’s an age-old question: How do you build a reputation for creativity in an industry that is—at its core—creative? For Mullen Lowe, one of the top ad agencies in the world, the answer lies in thinking differently. About everything. “Fundamentally, Mullen Lowe believes that creativity…