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Vivek Wadhwa is CEO of Relativity Technologies Inc., a Cary software maker. This article discusses the way he runs his business and how he has excelled as an entrepreneur, while also presenting some of his shortcomings as CEO.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 22 Issue 4, April 2002,
p20-26, il
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6850
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The state's top seventy-five public companies are ranked by their June, 2004, market value. Bank of America ranks No. 1, followed by Wachovia and Lowe's. Charlotte-based MedCath, which operates heart hospitals, made the biggest advance, jumping twenty-one place to No. 44. Five companies dropped off the list. Five companies made the Top 75 for the first time or returned after missing the cut last year.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 24 Issue 8, Aug 2004,
p3846, il
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8012
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The state's top seventy-five public companies are ranked by their June 2005 market value. Three companies that moved to North Carolina in the past year and six companies that offered stock publicly for the first time are on the list. The top three companies from 2004 repeated their standings in 2005, with Bank of America ranking No. 1, followed by Wachovia and Lowe's.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 26 Issue 8, Aug 2006,
p32-40, il
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6885
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Charlotte lost its professional basketball team in 2002. The next year, Robert L. Johnson, founder and CEO of the Black Entertainment Network (BET), purchased a franchise for a new team for $300 million. He named Ed Tapscott to be president of Bobcat Basketball Holdings, which includes the new Charlotte Bobcats team, the Charlotte Sting of the Women's National Basketball Association, operation of the new arena, and the new Carolinas Sports Entertainment Television. Tapscott is profiled in this article.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 24 Issue 10, Oct 2004,
p42-48, 50, 52, il, por
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10120
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Capt. Jonathan Kuniholm was wounded during the Iraq War and lost the lower part of his right arm. This led the Durham industrial designer to seek new ways to develop limbs to help to help amputees.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 28 Issue 4, Apr 2008,
p80-87, il, por
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24185
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Keith West was an ex-cop who started his own police force, West-Tek Inc., which failed after he was shot and killed by his girlfriend.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 27 Issue 10, October 2007,
p24-29, il
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10364
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BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA ranks the top 100 private companies in the state, and company executives discuss economic forces affecting their businesses. General Parts International Inc., of Raleigh, a distributor of automotive replacement parts, ranked first, followed by SAS Institute, Inc., of Cary, a software developer.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 28 Issue 10, Oct 2008,
p48-55, il
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24236
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The Stanley Cup finals filled the arena, and North Carolina's hockey team, the Carolina Hurricanes, did well. Ticket prices are rising next season, so the team must continue to do well in order to draw fans out to the arena.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 22 Issue 8, August 2002,
p24-29, il
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24327
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Cary-based Virtus Corp. is a six-year-old company that is pioneering 3-D virtual reality software, which allows users to create realistic images on their computer screens. Chairman David Smith discusses how the company plans to pull off a successful 3-D software business.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 16 Issue 11, November 1996,
p60-67, il
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5786
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Durham-based Red Hat is a runner-up in BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA magazine's High-Tech Company of the Year competition. The company, founded in 1993, specializes in the Linux computer operating system and reported sales of $91 million for the fiscal year ending in February 2003.
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BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA ranks the top 100 private-sector employers in the state. Belk, Inc. claimed the top spot in this year's ranking.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 30 Issue 10, Oct 2010,
p36-43, il
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24169
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S and D Coffee Inc. is the number two supplier of coffee beans to the U.S. food-service industry, buying beans from Latin America and roasting them in Concord.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 28 Issue 7, July 2008,
p60-65, il
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5125
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North Carolina's top seventy-five public companies are ranked by their May 2001 market value. Bank of America retained its number one spot from the previous year. Tech companies lost ground, while drug, tobacco, and lab testing stocks gained.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 21 Issue 8, Aug 2001,
p22-29, il
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5433
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North Carolina's banks are ranked by their 2001 revenues. Bank of America and Wachovia repeated their first and second place rankings from 2001. For the first time the ranking of the state's largest financial institutions included credit unions. Most of the 70 credit unions are ranked near the bottom, but two Raleigh-based ones, the State Employees Credit Union and the Coastal Federal Credit Union, are ranked 5th and 9th respectively.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 22 Issue 11, Nov 2002,
p28-34, il
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Observing a passenger give up a pocketknife before boarding a plane in Charlotte led Heather Lowry to form a company to deal with such occurrences. Lowry and her business partner Sherry Anderson pooled $10,000 in savings to form CheckPoint Mailers, Inc. A Greenville family later invested $100,000. CheckPoint Mailers will ship carry-on-contraband in bomb-resistant boxes at any of twenty-eight U.S. airports wherever the mailer wants. The company has eight full-time employees and twenty-eight contractors. Currently the business is generating about $80,000 a month in sales.
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