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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Total Escape Hosts Grand Opening & City-Wide Puzzle Hunt
On March 16, a new escape room in town will throw a city-wide celebration of games and puzzles in honor of their Grand Opening. Family owned and operated, Total Escape loves games of all kinds and wants to spread fun in its city. The celebration will run from 11am until 5pm. A puzzle hunt has… Read More »
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 »
Shindigs Celebrates Grand Opening
New Custom Event Planning Operation From Industry Veterans Opening March 5, 2019, Sarah and Brian Efird bring their 20 plus years of event planning expertise to their hometown of Winston-Salem. Located at 1130 Burke Street, SHINDIGS provides consultation, in-house design, curated supplies, unique rentals, and event execution. SHINDIGS offers a sliding scale of services from… Read More »