Cautionary Tales and Two Low-Cost Ways to Avoid Playing the Bad Guy in Court Last year, Uber agreed to pay over $200 Million in equity to settle a trade secrets case brought by Waymo, Google’s self-driving vehicle project. Waymo claimed that its “tech lead,” Anthony Levandowski, downloaded 14,000 files before he—and the files—eventually landed at… Read More »
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Internal Email Habits and Policies to Protect Your Business
HUB Certification Day 2019
The City of Winston Salem’s Office of Business Inclusion & Advancement-M/WBE Division is holding a Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) Certification Day to help minority- and woman-owned businesses apply for certification with the state Office of Historically Underutilized Businesses. Certification with the state HUB office provides businesses with greater exposure to business opportunities in state procurement… Read More »
Winston Under 40 Partners with Bookmarks in 2019
Winston Under 40 has chosen Bookmarks as its Community Partner for 2019. Each year, the Winston Under 40 advisory board identifies a local nonprofit to provide assistance to and volunteer with throughout the year. Bookmarks mission of fostering a love of reading and writing in the community truly resonated with the board and sparked their… Read More »
New Ventures Accelerator for Tech Startups
Flywheel is currently seeking applicants for its New Ventures 2019 program. New Ventures is an application-based program that invests an average of $50,000 in inception-stage startups that are pre-revenue. The program’s focus is in-state NC startups, but investments have also been made throughout the Southeast and beyond. Investments are primarily made in software applications (Saas, B2B,… Read More »
Advocacy on the Road to Nashville
It has been an exciting time in Government Affairs at the Winston Salem Chamber of Commerce. After finalizing our Legislative Agenda at the top of the year, we were able to mail a copy to our delegation of elected officials this month. Each letter thanked our elected officials for their tireless efforts to help enrich… Read More »
House and Senate Sessions Open in Raleigh
Recently, I met with policy influencers in Raleigh to discuss the Winston Salem Chamber’s new Legislative Agenda. I’m happy announce that it was well-received. We will work tirelessly to make sure that all of the issues you identified as important are articulated to our legislative delegation. The House and Senate opened the year on Wednesday,… Read More »