Category: Charleston
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11 Southern Companies Giving Back on #GivingTuesday (and beyond)
While the Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday bargains are definitely worth celebrating, we’re particularly excited that today is #GivingTuesday, a “global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration.” The charitable movement is now entering its fifth year — last year alone, over 700,000 people across the globe…
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The first-ever Palmetto Game Jam hits Charleston this November
Years from now you can look back on November 12th and 13th, 2016 and say “I competed in the very first Palmetto Game Jam. It was intense, joyful, grueling, and beautiful all at the same time. I worked with a small team to make a functioning video game in 24 hours. I don’t remember our…
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12 Southern cybersecurity companies making the Internet safer
Cybersecurity: what was once just a concern for your IT guy is now becoming a trending topic (and a critical matter for citizens, businesses, and governments). Whether you’ve binge watched Mr. Robot, heard “the cyber” discussed during election debates, or been affected by the recent Dyn hack and subsequently massive Internet outage on the…
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12 venture capital firms investing in the South
According to the National Venture Capital Association, 2016 has seen $32.4 billion raised so far, putting this year on pace to be a record-breaking year for investment. And yes, when you think of venture capital, major markets like San Francisco, Boston, and New York dominate the game. But research firm PitchBook points out that DC,…
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10 Southern Innovation Stories You May Have Missed This Summer
Maybe you’ve been on a mission to make headlines of your own and haven’t had the time (or energy) to check Twitter for summer’s newsworthy happenings. Or maybe you’ve been off the grid fishing, swimming, or sipping margaritas since May. Whatever your reason, we know it can be hard to keep up with who’s who…
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Raise a glass for these 16 Southern booze businesses
Last week’s DIG 500 gave you Southern-made cold brew, juices, and craft soda, and this week we’re back, barware in hand, with a roundup of Southerners in the business of booze. This is the land of mint juleps and moonshine, after all. And just like a good mullet, alcohol startups know how to mix business…
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11 Southern Beverage Startups to Quench Your Thirst
School calendars might dictate that summer is coming to an end, but the weather has us thinking it’s still in full-force here in the South. With heat and humidity that lingers six months out of the year, it’s no wonder Southern cities have birthed refreshing favorites like sweet tea, Coca-Cola, and Cheerwine*. But as soda…
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12 must-see makerspaces for Southern creators
If you’re not familiar with the maker movement, we think AdWeek sums it up well: “The maker movement, as we know, is the umbrella term for independent inventors, designers and tinkerers. Makers tap into an American admiration for self-reliance and combine that with open-source learning, contemporary design and powerful personal technology like 3-D printers.” The…
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Gotta Catch ‘Em All: 10 Mobile Gaming Startups in the South
Photo credit: iMore If words like “Lure Modules,” “Stardust,” and “Bulbasaur” come up in regular conversation, either your friends are dehydrated, or you know firsthand the rapid and widespread rise of Pokemon Go. According to Apple, the game had more downloads in its first week than any other app in history. And while it might…
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14 Unique Workplaces for Digital Nomads in the South
More and more people are ditching the traditional office environment to work remotely or launch businesses on their own. If you subscribe to the digital nomad lifestyle, you could certainly work from home or join one of the many co-working spaces popping up around the country, but what happens when your mailman (or cat) gets…
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Essential Resources for Female Founders in the South
If you’ve been on Twitter or Facebook this week, you probably caught some clips of this week’s United#StateOfWomen Summit. The daylong event celebrated what’s already been done by and for women, and took a collective pulse check on our unfinished business. Not surprisingly, one of the key gender equality issues discussed was entrepreneurship and innovation.…
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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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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 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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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 Southern Startups to make your Thanksgiving easier
We all know that Thanksgiving should be a time to slow down and join our family and friends in gratitude, but more often than not, the holiday feels stressful. We cram in a couple of rushed workdays and move straight into organizing, planning, traveling, cooking, and veering away from our normal routines. To save…
