Entrepreneurship News
Two Duke Start-Ups Win NC IDEA Grants
Duke start-ups NeuroSpire and BaseTrace are among five companies to have been awarded grants by NC IDEA.
Miss the June 12 DukeGEN Angel Pitch Event? Watch the Video
Online video of the 7th DukeGEN Angel Pitch Event in San Francisco is now available.
Colleges Help Budding Entrepreneurs Get Started
USA Today featured Duke's entrepreneurship offerings and recent Fuqua School of Business graduate Ameya Kulkarni B'13 in a June 10 article highlighting entrepreneurship programs at Duke and other universities across the country.
David Cummings '02 Earns Entrepreneur of the Year Award
David Cummings '02 has been named the recipient of the 2013 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the Deal of the Year category for the Southeast region.
Parse, Co-founded by Kevin Lacker T’02, Acquired by Facebook
Parse, a cloud-based application platform co-founded by Duke alum Kevin Lacker T'02, has been acquired by Facebook, the companies have announced.
Trading Wall Street for Fast Food
Two Duke graduates left their finance jobs to start Tava Indian Kitchen, a fast-casual restauarant chain making authentic Indian food available on a large scale.
InCube Partners with First-Year Student to Create Bracket Challenge Fundraiser for SIDS Research
First-year student Michael McConville teamed up with InCube to raise money for sudden infant death syndrome research with the Brackets 4 Life competition.
Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative Expands Leadership Team
Two Duke University strategists--J. Gregory Dees and L. Gregory Jones--have joined the Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative leadership team.
From College to Coding and Back Again
Jeremy Welch makes an unusual U-turn and returns to get his degree following success as an entrepreneur
Undergraduate Start-Up Challenge Prize Receives its Own Prize
Alumnus David Cummings to give $500k gift to launch Frank Borchardt Undergraduate Prize Fund