Category: News
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Bet Your Bottom Dollar on These Nine Southern FinTech Startups
We live in a world where techie turns of phrase like “You can Venmo me” and “I get paid in Bitcoin” are becoming more colloquial by the minute, and where the folks who work in finance aren’t just suit-wearing bankers or Wall Street execs; they’re hoodie-cloaked entrepreneurs giving the industry a run for its money.…
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Eight Southern Startups Getting Real with Virtual Reality
Virtual reality seemed to be top of mind at this year’s DIG SOUTH Interactive Festival. Speakers including Gary Vaynerchuk and Eric Bowman were fired up about VR, both making predictions about how fast (or slow) the technology will be adopted. Goldman Sachs estimates the virtual and augmented reality market could reach $80B by 2025 (and…
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Top 10 Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Should Choose ATL
This week is Atlanta Startup Week – a five-day celebration of our community’s unique entrepreneurial ecosystem. It’s proof that those of us living in Atlanta recognize the excitement and innovation that is going on in our city. It also reinforces that now is the time to showcase Atlanta to the world. Over 1000 startups already…
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Tech Sector Leaders Say They Want More Startups to Launch, Scale and Exit
After emigrating from India, Paul Singh became a bricklayer in Ashburn, Va., a formerly small town of 8,000 people outside of Washington, D.C. The town’s inexpensive, available land attracted the founders of AOL to build their company there in the ’90s. Within a year, the company attracted 6,000 tech employees and built huge offices. The…
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Get to Know Brooks Buffington
Yik Yak co-founder discusses Southeast tech scene, future of anonymous messaging app In the Southeast’s technology scene, Yik Yak is something of a rarity. The anonymous messaging app has become a household name. It shot up the charts, stirred up national controversy and raised serious money from big-name Silicon Valley investors. And in a region…
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Scholarship System and Good Done Great Win DIG SOUTH Pitch Competitions
To kick off DIG SOUTH’s venture and demo day, there were several pitch competitions designed to bring attention to budding startups throughout the Southern states. Between Cohort 5 and Wild Pitch, Scholarship Systems and Good Done Great took home their respective wins. During Wild Pitch, Good Done Great was chosen by a panel of three…
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DIG SOUTH Conference Opens 4th Year in Charleston with Record Attendance
Charleston’s biggest technology conference got underway Tuesday, and companies of all stripes took the opportunity to make their pitch. As Dig South opened its fourth year, the event included pitch competitions that ranged from College of Charleston students with early-stage ideas and Lowcountry startups from the Harbor Entrepreneur Center to better-established tech companies from around…
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The Skirt! Girls Guide to DIG SOUTH
It’s no secret that with the growth of Lowcountry-based tech companies, start-ups and entrepreneurs, our Holy City has been notably dubbed “Silicon Harbor.” Tomorrow, we are go for launch as Day One of the 2016 Dig South Conference kicks off another action packed week of interactive events. This year’s theme is #POWER and we have…
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Get to Know Stanfield Gray
Stanfield Gray founded DIG SOUTH, an annual conference showcasing the technology and entrepreneurship sector in the Southeast, four years ago. This year’s three-day event starts Tuesday at the Gaillard Center in downtown Charleston. Previsouly, Gray was music editor at Charleston Magazine and was once employed by the College of Charleston, where he worked in media…
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ChargeUp a StartUp at DIG SOUTH
Choose the Wild Pitch People’s Choice Winner at the World’s First Live Gamified Pitch Contest DIG SOUTH’s Wild Pitch competition is almost here, opening on Tuesday, April 26 at the Charleston Gaillard Center! 12 top startups from across the region will compete at DIG Venture & Demo Day, the “South’s Capitol of Capital,” for the…
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Start Up is Heading to South Carolina!
Host Gary Bredow and show producer Jenny Feterovich have been invited to speak at the Dig South Interactive Festival. Dig South is a three day event – April 26-28, 2016 – designed as a meeting place for entrepreneurs, connecting them with resources to help empower their business. The festival takes place in Charleston and features…
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5 Big DIG Takeaways From SXSW Interactive
Our team traveled to Austin last week for South by Southwest Interactive. We caught cool product demos, startup pitches, and sessions with some thought-provoking speakers (you can see photos from our trip on our Facebook page here)! Now that we’ve had a few days to let the festival dust settle, we wanted to share our…
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Get March Madness Ready with these 10 Sports Startups
NCAA March Madness kicks off this week, which means millions of Americans are feverishly filling out their brackets, searching for this year’s best “Boss Button,” and deciding whether to love or loathe Kansas and Duke. And since the college basketball hype has us Springing Forward with sports top of mind, we found 10 Southern startups…
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The Southeast heads Southwest! 16 Companies to Meet if You’re in Austin This Week
We’re excited to send a DIG SOUTH contingent (Co-Founder and CEO, Stanfield Gray, and our Sponsorship Director, Harriott Parker) to Austin, TX for South by Southwest Interactive! They’ll learn from the likes of Gary Vaynerchuk and Halle Tecco (who, #humblebrag, are also speaking at #DIG2016), scope out what’s trending in tech and innovation, and meet…
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An Internet of Things “riot” in North Carolina
The Internet of Things is causing a serious riot in North Carolina. It’s not a show of civil disorder, though. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. The meet-up group affectionately known as“NC RIoT” (NC Regional Internet of Things) brings together the state’s IoT talent and resources as they work to make the Tar Heel State…
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Ready, Set, Action: 8 Southern Startups Breaking into the Film Industry
Sunday’s Oscar excitement has us talking about all things film! And while we’d love to binge watch all of Leo’s movies and replay any speech Alejandro González Iñárritu has ever given, Hollywood’s biggest night actually made us curious about the industry behind the scenes and beyond the Hills. In this week’s DIG 500, we discovered…
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12 Southern Companies Changing the Way We Get Around
With continuous and fast-paced growth of US cities, the rise of the sharing economy, and a heightened demand for convenience, efficiency, and thoughtfully designed solutions, the transportation industry is ripe for change. Southern entrepreneurs have taken note, revved their engines, and launched new transportation startups that are changing the way we get around. In this…
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Local Entrepreneurs Help Shape South Carolina’s Future
There’s an old saying that ideas are virtually worthless because they’re so easy to create. Ideas are like business cards after a networking event; we all seem to have stacks of them, and while we genuinely might want to do something with them, they seem to pile up or land in the recycling bin. That’s…
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8 Southern Startups Playing Cupid this Valentine’s Day
Looking for love in all the wrong places? Thanks to the digital world, you’ve got plenty of other options. From Tinder and Bumble to Zoosk and (yes – this is real) GlutenFreeSingles.com, America’s online and mobile dating industry is a hard one to ignore. It’s a $2.2 Billion market with an ever-growing and active user…
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13 Must-Read Books According to Triangle Entrepreneurs
LOOKING FOR INSPIRATION? READ THESE BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY THE TRIANGLE’S LEADING ENTREPRENEURS AND INVESTORS. I have to admit, I’ve always been a bit of a bookworm. I was the kid carrying unwieldy stacks of titles out of the public library on Saturdays (nerd alert!), and that love of words has continued into my professional life.…
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How South Carolina Cities Stack Up
A LOOK AT THE MIDLANDS REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS REPORT FROM OUR NEWEST #SUCCEEDINTHESOUTH CONTRIBUTOR IN COLUMBIA. Columbia, South Carolina is definitely on the rise when it comes to entrepreneurship. With a growing mix of cooperative workspaces like SOCO, pitch competitions like The Proving Ground, and continued support from big guns like the USC’s Technology Incubator, it’s…
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7 Startups Changing Journalism and Publishing
Remember when everyone used to say, “There’s an app for that”? Lately, we should start saying, “There’s a day for that.” From National Cat Day to National Donut Day, calendars and social media feeds are filling up fast with honorary holidays. While we love cats and donuts (we’re human, after all), something we love even…
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9 Startups That Will Totally Improve Your Productivity This Year
We read somewhere recently that between 80 to 92% of New Year’s resolutions are broken by January 20th. Inspiring stuff, eh? As we enter February, we want to make sure that’s not the case for the DIG Nation. We found nine productivity software startups from around the South that will help you work smarter and faster,…
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4 NC Startup Stories from 2015 that You’ll Definitely See More of This Year
For many in the startup world, the beginning of a New Year often feels frenetic, slightly chaotic, and sometimes downright crazy. We’re all catching up on end-of-year projects, planning for the months ahead, getting adjusted to new routines, and drinking more coffee than we care to admit. But occasionally, there are moments of stillness hidden…
