David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

In ’05, social networking was not quite as prevalent as is it today. — Wayne set his sights on entrepreneurship when he was a teen, working in the tobacco fields of North Carolina: I remember working in the tobacco field one morning. Everybody doesn’t have hi-speed Internet.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Connecting to the Internet of Things, the smart stick guides the people who are blind safely by accessing information from traffic lights, cross walks, buses and construction and weather reports. Cary, North Carolina surveys its residents every other year about various topics and the so-called barriers to citizen involvement rarely change.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Those people have to be connected to one another and to universities by information-sharing social networks. They commonly tout Silicon Valley and North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park as examples of the success of government-supported clusters.

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