Category: Startups
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VIDEO: Start Here Little Rock
Start Here, Little Rock seeks to engage women and minorities in Little Rock and increase access to entrepreneurial information, resources and training. Learn more about the program via our friends at HARK.
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Get schooled with these 11 Southern education startups
Ah, back to school season. For some, late August conjures happy memories of new outfits, organized pencil pouches, and fresh composition notebooks ready to be filled with doodles. For others (we’re guessing you’re a college senior, a tired parent or teacher, or a school administrator…), perhaps this time of year fills you with some looming…
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RaftUp: An Arkansas entrepreneur’s startup journey
Corey Boelkens left behind a successful corporate career to pursue his vision for RaftUp, and made some significant sacrifices to pursue his dream. Read his story via Tim Freeman at HARK. December 2014: After 10 years as a highly successful strategy consultant, Corey Boelkens was ready to leave the office, leave it behind, and spend…
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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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2017 SXSW Accelerator Startup Season Now Open – Are You In?
SXSW Accelerator returns for its 9th edition on March 11-12, 2017 to showcase some of the world’s most exciting innovations. This event provides an opportunity for startups to present to a panel of industry experts, VC and Angel investors. Categories are: Augmented & Virtual Reality, Enterprise & Smart Data, Entertainment & Content, Health & Wearables, Innovative…
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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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Sun’s Out, Guns Out! 10 Southern Startups with Your Summer Fitness Fix
As temperatures heat up and bathing suits find their way back into your wardrobe rotation, how will you keep your fitness regimen on track while still enjoying weekend cookouts and ice cream truck stops? You could certainly try Kanye’s workout plan, or you could turn to these 10 Southern startups that make it more convenient…
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10 Southern Startups Helping Parents Make This the Best Summer Yet
It’s officially summer, and while kids rejoice to the raucous chants of Alice Cooper, parents are feeling the heat as they balance normal adult life with three months’ worth of unoccupied youngsters. Thanks to some innovative Southerners, though, there is hope! These 10 startups have new and easy ways to keep your kids entertained, educated,…
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11 Southern Startups That Will Save Your Summer Travel
When you think of the travel industry, words like “convenience,” “speed,” and “transparency” probably aren’t the first that come to mind. Perhaps your memory wanders to a TSA agent testing your emotional stability, a thrilling day spent in a rental car lobby, or forking out extra dough for service fees and taxes you didn’t even…
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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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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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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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8 Must-Know Resources for Entrepreneurs in Columbia, SC
Drake has his motto (#YOLO), and DIG SOUTH has theirs (#SucceedInTheSouth). And thanks to a burgeoning startup scene, a recent downtown revitalization, and a unique blend of universities and businesses, Columbia, SC is proving to be a place where the DIG motto rings true. Want to know a little more about the tech and entrepreneurship…
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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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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…
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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…
