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Happy #SmallBusinessSaturday! 🏡 As we enter the holiday season and into the new year, make sure to support your local small businesses, from your grocers to even your early stage startups! We all have to start small to grow big. 🤗 What small business or startup are you supporting into 2025? Comment them below! ⤵️ Featured in photos: GameFlo, Sani, better made easy, Locally Grown

Join us in TWO WEEKS at Bull McCabe's in downtown Durham for our December Holiday Happy Hour, proudly sponsored by Fourscore Business Law and Aprio! ❤️ 💚 Your first round of drinks are on them, so make sure to thank them in person. Come out for a fun time of networking and drinks! 🍻 Register ahead of time here! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eWkVyBgW

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 🍂 🍁 We're thankful for all of our readers! May your day be filled with warmth, love, and joy as you gather with loved ones!

🧪 Working in the fertility laboratory space for the better part of a decade, William Baird was responsible for maintaining the integrity of cryogenic storage tanks. He manually checked them on a daily basis and was on call for potential alarms, all in service of the valuable cargo—eggs, sperm, and embryos—contained in the tanks. 🧐 But for all Will’s hard work, he was troubled by inherent inefficiencies. “I got pretty frustrated with the lack of usable data that we were able to gather from the current sensing technology, these temperature probes we were using… we just knew there had to be a better way.” Enter Wilmington-based Boreas Monitoring Solutions. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eTtWbB2A ✍️ David Schwartz Co-founders: William Baird, William C. Baird, PhD, HCLD, Chad Johnson, PhD, HCLD

It's the most wonderful time of the year .... it's time to buy those holiday gifts! 🎁 Don't know what to get your foodie friend? 🍭 Or those lovely picky people in your life? 🤗 Check out GrepBeat's 2024 Holiday Gift Guide, packed with fun and unique gifts from local NC startups in our ecosystem! 💓 Some we have covered, some are just friends of our community—all guaranteed to be a smile-worthy present. And some companies are running #BlackFriday sales and holiday-specific deals, so check them out as soon as you can! 🏷️ Find the full list here! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/euN79w8k

Happy Monday! Want to know what's happening in the Triangle and in Wilmington this week? Tune in to your curated #MondayMix. 🎧 It's going to be a veerrry short week of events because of Thanksgiving 🦃. But if you're in town in the Triangle and are still itching for something to do before Thursday, check them out below! Triangle 🏙️ 🍻 11/25: Business After Hours Mixer (6:30-8:30pm) 🚗 11/26: Network at the Museum: Women in Business (5-7pm) No Wilmington events this week! Enjoy the week off! 🏖️ 🎶 Your song selection this week: "Tough Love" by MT Jones. Stick around to the end of the episode to give it a listen! Check out and subscribe to the podcast! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eJb3gR-C

On today's episode of the #FridayNooner, our triple-set of hosts opened the show with a few words on what they were all bringing to our midday “Grepsgiving” lunch. (We feasted immediately after the show, see recent photos for evidence...) 🦃 💎 But today’s real main course was American Underground Executive Director Tim Scales. Tim is not only a good friend-of-GrepBeat (FOG) but also an even greater friend to the ecosystem! 🎭 → 💼 Tim spoke about the difference between AU and other “coworking” spaces like WeWork, indulged us in a place-of-origin guessing game, and filled us in on his journey from theater major to Duke MBA, to a career in Startup-land. Watch the full episode below! Or if you're more of a listener, catch the podcast version here 🎧 https://lnkd.in/gwDH74Fy

It's GrepBeat's annual Greps-giving! 🦃 🎊 🍂 We're continuing the traditions of getting together as a company to celebrate and give thanks to each other ... and of making all of our holidays "Grep" related. Can't say that we aren't consistent! 🫂 Be sure to give thanks and appreciation to those around you too! Let's get everyone on that Greps-giving cheer! 🥂 🥳 or that other holiday with the givings too... *gobble, gobble* *oink, oink* Cesar Romero 🎙, Kaitlyn Dang, David Schwartz, Joe Colopy 🦕, Marisa Levings Cruz

Curious about what it takes to grow and foster a startup hub full of a community of entrepreneurs? Tune in to this week's #FridayNooner, where we welcome Tim Scales, executive director of Durham's American Underground (AU)! As one of eleven Google for Entrepreneurs tech hubs in North America, the AU offers a global network of resources and mentors to support high-growth, scalable startups in a creative, energetic and inclusive workspace. Before his time at the AU, Tim previously founded a successful marketing company and an unsuccessful tech startup and learned a lot from both opportunities. He earned his MBA from Duke University.

🤖 Most robotic arms go from coordinate systems of point X,Y,Z to point X,Y,Z. Pick up the cup, pour the coffee, place it on the counter, rinse and repeat. But what if that coffee cup was lying on its side? Could the robot understand its environment and make decisions accordingly? 🤔 Steven King, founder of Blue Sky Robotics, wanted to find out. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/epFjGtWY ✍️ Hannah Kaufman