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The Friday Nooner

The Friday Nooner is a weekly, live, half-hourish program in which the GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy and cohost talk all things Triangle tech every Friday at Noon (ET). Each week, they also welcome a guest. You can watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or LinkedIn. Or, if you are more of an audio learner, you can listen to the podcast version. Episodes will appear on this feed a few hours after they premiere. You can read about past episodes or watch the full archive on YouTube:

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00:42:58

An Old Friend Joins For Holiday Fun In The Nooner’s...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/12/20

The Friday Nooner returned this week for one final episode. While more podcast/show content is coming in 2025, the Nooner as you’ve come to know it has now wrapped up its run. And what better way to celebrate said run than with some holiday cheer, old friends, and (as often comes with one such old friend) trivia?!Check out this final installment to test your knowledge of Nooners past, muse about plans for the holidays, and enjoy a certain someone being back on the air (ok fine, it was Pete)

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00:41:45

Christmas Tree Timing And A Visit From Victoria Fritz...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/12/06

The Friday Nooner returned today after a one-week break for Thanksgiving. GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy was joined by co-hosts Melissa Crosby and Kaitlyn Dang and the trio discussed Christmas decoration timing. More specifically, Joe revealed that his distaste for pre-Thanksgiving Christmas trees is… um… fiercer than we realized.The main event was an interview with Victoria Fritz, who beamed in from D.C. Victoria is the Founder and CEO of Chapel Hill-based Baby Bumps—a startup that connects

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00:33:57

A Bit Of Grepsgiving And A Chat With American...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/11/22

Today’s episode of the Friday Nooner was triple-hosted by GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy, Kaitlyn Dang, and––making his Nooner debut, kind of—Cesar Romero. They opened the show with a few words on what they were all bringing to our midday “Grepsgiving” lunch. (We feasted immediately after the show.)Today’s main course was American Underground Executive Director Tim Scales. Tim spoke about the difference between AU and other “coworking” spaces like WeWork, indulged us in a place-of-origin

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00:36:35

Alpacasews CEO Emily Foster’s Budding Plushie Empire...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/11/15

Today on the Friday Nooner, co-hosting trio Joe Colopy, Melissa Crosby, and Kaitlyn Dang got us started with some conversation about CED’s GRO Demo Day, which took place Thursday evening (and which you can read more about here). Somehow this led to the revelations that Joe believes he’s going to die at 86 and Kaitlyn was a talented viola…ist… in high school. Evidently there’s now potential for a future musical episode on which Kaitlyn plans her instrument and I honk through an oboe

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00:35:44

Destination Discussion Abounds As Annie Combs Talks...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/11/08

On today’s episode of the Friday Nooner, GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy was back in the hosting chair alongside Melissa Crosby and new co-hosting addition Kaitlyn Dang—both of whom, to be clear, were in their own chairs. They started off with a bit of banter about Joe’s brush with death (he nearly crashed his new “GrepBeat red” vespa).Then, our trio of co-hosts welcomed this week’s guest, Annie Combs. Annie is the Co-Founder and CEO of ECPC Travel, which she describes as the “eco-friendly,

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00:37:57

Heather McWhorter Joins Us To Talk About UNCW’s CIE...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/10/25

On today’s edition of the Friday Nooner, GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy and Co-Host Extraordinaire Melissa Crosby started off with a bit of conversation about the goings-on at HQ. Specifically, this meant a brief recap of the latest GrepBeat Book Club meeting and a look ahead to some pumpkin painting. Swing by in the coming days (I guess) to see Joe’s rendition of ‘80s Melissa on a pumpkin.Last and most importantly, Joe and Melissa welcomed Heather McWhorter, who is the Director of the Center

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00:38:30

CED’s Jay Bigelow Joins Us Fresh Off Their 40th...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/10/18

On today’s Friday Nooner, GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy and his co-host Melissa Crosby (who was good enough to beam in remotely despite being on the tail end of a bout with Covid) started off by chatting a bit about the tragic vespa heist that took place outside GrepBeat HQ earlier this week. They also discussed the State Fair and the bizarrely accepted practice of spending more money to win a gigantic stuffed animal than one would buying one directly. After that we got to the highlight of

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00:36:52

Wilmington Entrepreneur David Reeser On All Things...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/10/11

On today’s Friday Nooner, GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy and his sidekick Melissa Crosby recapped the GrepBeat and Primordial teams’ Thursday excursion to Wilmington. The teams headed down to The Wine Sampler for a kickoff event where we enjoyed some networking, intros, and delicious refreshments with folks from the Wilmington ecosystem. Joe and Melissa also talked a bit about North Carolina joining a multi-state lawsuit against TikTok.Then they welcomed this week’s guest: Wilmington

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00:32:10

Lab Logs’ Daniel Summers Talks Wilmington, Free...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/10/04

For today’s episode of the Friday Nooner, the GrepBeat Godfather and co-hosting maestra Melissa Colopy started off with some talk about storm-ravaged Western North Carolina, and some of the ongoing relief efforts we’ve seen in the community (special shout-outs to the folks at Raleigh Founded and Greenplaces). They also spent a few moments recapping the GrepBeat Happy Hour that took place this past Wednesday at Bull McCabe’s.Then yours truly popped in with a quick update on the week at

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00:40:28

David Cummings Shares His Vision For Atlanta

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/09/27

On today’s Friday Nooner, GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy and “Survivor” Melissa Crosby opened with a few words about Hurricane Helene and the storms pelting the Southeast (and the very nice but occasionally porous GrepBeat HQ). Then Melissa recapped this week’s Ladies Investing/Local Angels (LILA) meetup and Joe offered a few words on some of the latest with OpenAI.Joe and Melissa then welcomed this week’s guest: Atlanta-based David Cummings, who has founded or co-founded 10 startups, and is

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00:35:04

Mark Littlewood On All Things Business of Software...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/09/20

On today’s Friday nooner , the GrepBeat Godfather and Melissa Crosby opened things up with some discussion about a few miscellaneous goings-on around the Triangle.They also touched on a yoga studio sliding into some former Bronto space at the Tobacco Campus. (Joe seemed to have some thoughts.) Once all that was done, they got to the heart of the episode and welcomed in Mark Littlewood, the Founder and CEO of the Business of Software (BoS) Conference. (P.S: Mark was also generous enough to

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00:32:38

Ryan O’Donnell Brings Sunlight On A Rainy Friday

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/09/13

Today’s Friday Nooner opened with the GrepBeat Godfather and Melissa Crosby discussing fond memories of video stores, short-versus-longer book chapters, and more. Then your friendly neighborhood editor popped in with a temperamental green-screen background and a brief update on all things GrepBeat.com. We covered the Monday Mix, our first Book Club recap, In The Soup, and, naturally, our (viral?) post on Taylor Swift update app Swift Alert. Once we wrapped up the internal recap, Joe and

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00:35:04

A New Season Begins With Seguno CEO Chris Geiss

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/09/06

Welcome back! Today’s Friday Nooner effectively marked a season premiere, as well as the beginning of a new chapter for the show sans longtime co-host Pete McEntegart. GrepBeat Godfather Joe Colopy and Melissa Crosby of Colopy Ventures brought the show back on air, comfortably seated in front of the awesome new mural at HQ (special thanks to summer artist-in-residence Xiomara Colopy!).Joe and Melissa provided a general update on all things GrepBeat, a few takes on the news, and a bit of

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00:38:06

Season Finale and Pete’s Goodbye

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/06/28

Today’s season finale episode of the Friday Nooner was a mini-celebration of Pete on his final day with GrepBeat. The GrepBeat Godfather beamed in from the Costa Rican mist, video tributes were shown, and multiple fun rounds of trivia taught us a bit more about both Pete himself and the standup comedy world he’s diving into.For those who may not have heard, there will be a more extensive farewell party for Pete, dubbed GrepBeat Pete’s Irish Goodbye, at Bull McCabe’s Irish Pub on July 11 from

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00:39:45

Rob Creighton Explains Windlift’s Approach To Wind...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/06/21

Today’s Friday Nooner had a little bit of a different vibe. With the GrepBeat Godfather on vacation with the GrepBeat First Family in Costa Rica, Pete was joined by first (only?)-time guest co-host, Not Joe (Kaitlyn). After a vague tease of special material on next week’s Nooner season finale (tune in!), the pair provided a rundown of new Colopy Ventures employees’ annual gifts—which, despite Kaitlyn’s admitted abuse of her new-employee gift card to the ForeverGrep store, still culminate in

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00:39:37

Vince Beese Sells Us On Sales Space

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/06/14

It was a busy first segment on this week’s Friday Nooner. We heard from The Super Real Version Of GrepBeat Pete Who Has Lovely Things To Say About Joe; we got an update on Durham’s resident Vespa “gang”; and we found out that one of the chickens you may have heard about on a past episode several past episodes is, in fact, a rooster. Sadly, this means it will need to be re-homed (any takers outside the Durham city limits?).Then Joe and Pete welcomed Vince Beese, the Founder and CEO of Sales

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00:36:53

Chapel Hill’s Virnika Brings AI To Restaurant Phone...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/06/07

On this week’s Friday Nooner, Joe and Pete spent a bit of time recapping Grep-a-palooza 3 (with special acknowledgment of all our volunteers) before delving into breakfast routines. In the end it was established that despite a regular regimen of plant-based breakfast smoothies and Saturday-morning Eggo waffles, Pete is not, in fact, a professional athlete.Once that was determined, Charles Douthitt joined in from the green room-slash-mythical nap studio downstairs. Charles is the Co-Founder

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00:39:51

Modern Ritual Health Brings Telehealth To Dermatology

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/05/31

It was a well-caffeinated crew on today’s Friday Nooner, which made for a bit of a roller-coaster intro. Pete tapped into his glory years as a “celebrity juror” to lend us some perspective on jury procedures, and then the GrepBeat Godfather took us through various stages and sub-stages of investment (proving that he is not, in fact, “just a pretty face riding a Vespa”).Then they welcomed Dr. Beth Goldstein and Elianna Goldstein to the show. This mother-daughter duo co-founded Modern Ritual

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00:43:56

Organic Transit’s Rob Cotter Updates Us On All Things...

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/05/24

Today’s Friday Nooner guest was Rob Cotter, the Founder, CEO, Re-Acquirer, and CEO again of Raleigh-based Organic Transit—and the inventor of solar-powered pedal hybrid vehicle, the “ELF.” We covered Cotter as part of a “Where Are They Now” series back in 2022, and more recently highlighted his triumphant rescue of the previously shelved ELF.Once Joe got stretched out and he and Pete reflected on the (hopefully-not-too-prescient) 2013 Joaquin Phoenix movie Her, they brought Rob on to talk

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00:39:09

Some Fun Facts About Opine CEO Akash Ganapathi

The Friday Nooner ·

2024/05/17

We learned several things about today’s Friday Nooner guest, Akash Ganapathi, the Co-Founder and CEO of Durham-based Opine. He met his wife when they were both students at the North Carolina School of Science & Mathematics.He met his two Opine co-founders—Charlie Duong and Austin Kelleher—when they were all early employees at Morrisville-based unicorn JupiterOne.He and the other Opine-rs are the reason there are bottles of Solyent in the downstairs fridge at GrepBeat/Colopy

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