ExitEvent reports on East Coast startups, including funding, launches, events, and seismic changes to the startup ecosystem.
ExitEvent was founded in June 2011 as a grass-roots effort to organize and coordinate the RTP startup ecosystem, and has ultimately evolved into a very useful startup hub. Because it was originally conceived in the RTP region of North Carolina, its beta had been limited to startups in that region.
In February 2012, we began expansion along the East Coast and are working in the Charlotte, Greensboro, Asheville, Wilmington (NC), Washington DC, and Atlanta metro areas. In May 2012, we began publishing exclusive news and insights on East Coast startups.
Currently, there are over 400 members of ExitEvent. Of those, over 300 are entrepreneurs and/or startup employees from over 150 startups. The non-startup members are a mix of investors, support organizations, service providers, job-seekers, small business owners, and press.
Along with exclusive, unique news and features about startups, ExitEvent also offers directories, startup and investor profiles, event calendars, a discounted services marketplace, and a startup need fulfillment area.
Offline features include the ExitEvent Startup Social, a monthly entrepreneur-and-investor-only "anti-networking" event that is attended by 100-200 people, and the bi-weekly ExitEvent Office Hours, an open-to-all meetup for mentoring, advisement, and connections.
Joe Procopio is the founder of ExitEvent. He is also the VP of Product Engineering for Automated Insights/StatSheet. In his spare time, he owns consulting firm Intrepid Company and media site Intrepid Media. Joe has a column about new and shiny things at TechJournal, among other bylines, all of which can be found here. He's on his 8th startup.
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If you can write funny and snarky and you're interested in writing about startups and the startup ecosystem in your area, ESPECIALLY if you're an entrepreneur, an investor, or working for a startup, hit us up at info[at]exitevent.com.
ExitEvent reports on East Coast startups, including funding, launches, events, and seismic changes to the startup ecosystem.
Joe Procopio