Dave NealOctober 1, 2013Leave a comment

Hello World – Dave Neal’s Blog

Welcome to my blog! I’ve been involved with startup technology companies since 1993. I have been an executive on seven teams and have advised dozens of other companies. Two years ago I co-founded the Southeast’s best-capitalized accelerator in the American Tobacco complex in Durham, NC. My experience is at the intersection of law, finance and technology startups. Given that experience I’ll be commenting on issues affecting the tech company landscape with an emphasis on those areas.

About Dave Neal

Dave is currently Managing Director of The Startup Factory, the leading technology accelerator in the Southeast. Dave has performed Chairman, CEO, CFO and General Counsel roles since 1994 in information technology companies, several of which have returned money to investors and several of which provided really interesting entrepreneurial lessons. Dave spent eleven years as an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill and five years as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the UNC School of Law. He co-developed the FastTrac Tech program later acquired for use by the Kauffman Foundation. David holds a B.S. and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. In 2011 Dave partnered with Chris Heivly, a serial software entrepreneur and a co-founder of MapQuest, to raise the capital for The Startup Factory and create TSF’s Research Triangle operation. TSF has made 22 investments to date, focusing on lean startup methodologies for helping portfolio companies advance.

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