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Winston Starts helps entrepreneurs successfully scale their businesses to new heights. We provide a development framework, valuable resources and the long runway you need to grow your business and realize your dreams.

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As a city of over 360,000, Winston-Salem is known for its diversity of business and community with a strong and unwavering commitment to the arts, excellence in healthcare research and technology, and opportunities for specialized and advanced education. In recent years Winston-Salem has moved from a manufacturing-based economy (tobacco/textiles) to an information and technology-based powerhouse, especially in the areas of medicine, research and finance.

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Winston Starts 2023 Investor Forum

Join us March 23, 2023 to hear our early and growth stage companies pitch to investors from across the Southeast.
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Funding Workshop

Representatives from the NC Department of Commerce and NC IDEA will be on hand to talk about their grants and awards programs and answer any questions about the application and funding process.
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Collaborating with Software Developers

How can developers and non-technical founders collaborate to build a product? You have a list of features you want to build, but working with developers to turn those ideas into working software can...
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SPARK Speaker: Chris Heivly on May 26

Join us Thursday, May 26 at 11:30am at Winston Starts to hear Chris Heivly, a serial entrepreneur, share his startup journey, as well as five simple lessons you learned as a five-year old. Chris will...
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