March 15, 2018
CIE Manager of Programs and Operations, Laura Brogdon-Primavera, wins the UNCW Staff Award for Excellence in Engagement
Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship's Manager of Programs and Operations, Laura Brogdon-Primavera, won the UNCW Staff Award for Excellence in Engagement last Friday, March 9.
Congratulations, Laura! Read more here.
Meredith Media Group profiled in Port City Daily
One of our own made the PCD!
Meredith chooses to promote women empowerment and natural beauty by working with models who look like “normal people” and not the traditional, unrealistic runway models of the past.
“I don’t want to work with your tall, 6’2, 100-pound models, and that’s actually not what the modeling world wants right now. It’s really catering more to the ‘she-looks-like-me’ type of models, the realistic looking women,” he explains.
Friday Feature: Ed Hall, Healthy Pets, and the World's First Smart Pet Bed
If you missed the Friday Feature about local rising star, Ed Hall, and his company Petrics, look no further:
Entrepreneurship is about solving a problem—about easing your customer's pain. Petrics, the pet healthcare company making IoT products and making waves in small business news lately, does it by making life easier for pet owners and healthier for pets. For its founder, Ed Hall, the path to startup stardom began with his mother. With three cats and a dog, Hall's mother found it impossible to keep track of which pets needed which foods in what amounts.
Enter Petrics.
Read more about the award-winning startup here!
Mentor Katrina Harrell on Nonprofits vs. Social Enterprises
The most recent Insights article is a perfect compliment to our "Grant Writing for Nonprofits and Social-Impact Ventures" event:
That said, a social enterprise can be either nonprofit or for-profit, as both are simply tax and legal structures. A social enterprise simply denotes that your business - whether it retains a profit or not - offers a solution to a social issue through its products or services.
Read the full article here and share it with your friends. See our other GWBJ insights here. We're always looking for contributors, too, so email our content coordinator, Nikki Kroushl, at nkk6885@uncw.edu if you'd like to contribute an article.
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Other Announcements from the CIE and Friends
POP Founder Bonnie Monteleone profiled in the Environmental News Service
Congratulations to CIE member, Bonnie Monteleone! Read the article on Plastic Ocean Project's oil-from-plastics project.
3 Tools to Make Your Startup Social Media Painless
CIE content manager Nikki Kroushl shares some of the tools she uses for making the most of social media as a business in the Greater Wilmington Business Journal Insights column.
Read the article here and share it with your friends. See our other GWBJ insights here. We're always looking for contributors, too, so email our content coordinator, Nikki Kroushl, at nkk6885@uncw.edu if you'd like to contribute an article.
Uni-SPIRE profiled in Port City Daily
Congrats on the great feature, Uni-SPIRE!
Also check out the Friday Feature we wrote about Dr. Powell and Uni-SPIRE last year!
Coastal Cupcakes founder joins Clean Eatz Team
Congratulations to Kristen Beckmeyer!
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Grant Writing Basics for Social-Impact Ventures |
3/15 |
Building a $100 Million Business with Vision & Integrity - Business Week |
3/22 |
Tuesdays with Tobin: Exit Thesis |
3/27 |
AI Series Meetup |
3/27 |
Greater Wilmington Biz Journal Expo |
4/5 |
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