Recent changes to North Carolina corporate law may help make North Carolina even friendlier to businesses by eliminating any perceived advantage other states may have had over North Carolina. These changes are also designed to help attract and retain qualified individuals as officers and directors of North Carolina corporations. Last year, the General Assembly enacted… Read More »
Author: Greater Winston-Salem, Inc.
Making North Carolina More Business-Friendly through Recent Changes to Corporate Law
Advocacy Update
Association Health Insurance-Senate Bill 86 If the opening days of the legislative session started out as a leisurely walk, the past few weeks have escalated into an exuberant run. Sen. Joyce Krawiec, R-Forsyth, made waves in the world of healthcare policy because a Senate bill she co-sponsored was sent to the Senate floor for debate.… Read More »
Internal Email Habits and Policies to Protect Your Business
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 »
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 »