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UNC’s Eshelman Innovation: Fueling North Carolina’s Next Big Breakthroughs North Carolina’s vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem is a powerhouse for innovation, but there’s always room to improve, especially when it comes to turning cutting-edge…

What if your devices could see and understand the world around them as well as you do? For Charbel Rizk, founder and CEO of Oculi, this isn’t just a hypothetical—it’s the driving…

What does it take to transition from hosting local events to managing a national venture capital firm? For Justis Mendez and Pablo Casilimas, founders of OneSixOne Ventures, their journey began with such…

In deciding how to best compensate employees in a startup, clients often consider stock options as a viable choice, and many startup employees view stock options as a great incentive. Once the…

What is a Profits Interest? The equity compensation tools available to LLCs and corporations are different. In particular, LLCs taxed as partnerships have the benefit of using a special equity compensation tool…

In the latest Founder’s Shares podcast episode, I talked to Chris Heivly, a serial entrepreneur, investor, and startup expert, about his entrepreneurial journey, from co-founding MapQuest and The Startup Factory, to writing…

Over the past 4 years, at the end of each episode of Founder Shares, I ask the guest the same question, “If there’s one piece of advice that you would share with…

Imagine this: You’ve created artificial intelligence (AI) software to revolutionize its operations. With AI seamlessly integrated into your clients’ workflows, productivity soars, and success seems inevitable. But a legal minefield might be…

Do you remember when it was rare to have a computer at home? For Scot Wingo, growing up in Aiken, South Carolina, having a computer wasn’t just a luxury—it was a unique…

“It’s finding the founder, and the team, where you get the feeling, you want to quit your job and go work there,” Jason Caplain said. The Bull City Venture’s co-founder’s venture capital…