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March Madness for College Start-Ups

Leoneda Inge

It’s March Madness for college basketball fans.  But teams of student entrepreneurs gathered in Durham this week for Start-up Madness.

Niki Kohari:  Can you guys feel the March Madness in the air!

Leoneda Inge:  Nineteen Start-up Madness teams tipped off in Durham, representing schools in the ACC. Clemson’s “Mushroom Mountain” was lucky enough to make the Elite Eight.  The University of Virginia’s I-pod talking “Tee Gee” doll shined in the Final Four.   But when the buzzer sounded – The University of Miami Hurricanes won with “Cohealo.”   Mark Slaughter says his company designs collaborative infrastructure to help improve health care system continuity.

Mark Slaughter:  The biggest problem in health care right now is inefficiency. And it’s particular with hospital systems.  They’re operating as individual facilities in a health group and they’re not interconnected.  So there’s a ton of waste and a ton of inefficiency.

Slaughter walked away with a check for five thousand dollars.

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Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
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