Garland Tucker, a North Carolina businessman, author, and entrepreneur, today formally announced he is running for U.S. Senate against Thom Tillis in an interview on the Sean Hannity radio show.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 12:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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By investing in women around the world, we're investing in families, we're investing in prosperity, and we're investing in peace.
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2019 @ 10:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina needs to reform its approach to taxing capital gains. As I have noted in a previous analysis for the John Locke Foundation, the current system ignores the fundamental nature of capital gains taxes.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2019 @ 10:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University and the Miller School of Entrepreneurship announced the seven student-led teams that will compete in the final round of the Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge
Published: Thursday, November 22nd, 2018 @ 3:55 am
By: ECU News Services
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During National Veterans Small Business Week, our Nation recognizes the dedicated men and women who have selflessly served our country in uniform and who now apply their knowledge and skills as small business owners.
Published: Thursday, November 8th, 2018 @ 12:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I'm a huge fan of free markets, limited government, and the promotion of individual liberty.
Published: Friday, October 12th, 2018 @ 2:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hometown children's fairs are places where you can buy paintings for $10 or rice crispy treats for $3
Published: Thursday, October 11th, 2018 @ 1:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's economy is in reasonably good shape. Over the past five years of available data, our state's employers have added 480,000 net new jobs, with our job-creation rate exceeding the national and Southeastern averages
Published: Sunday, September 30th, 2018 @ 3:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recognizing a new path to revitalization, the State of North Carolina is quickly moving to take advantage of the newly established Opportunity Zones Program, which focuses on distressed, low-income census tracks for targeted economic investments
Published: Thursday, March 22nd, 2018 @ 2:08 pm
By: Bill Cook
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President Donald J. Trump knows that entrepreneurship is the economic backbone of communities across America
Published: Sunday, February 18th, 2018 @ 9:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The United States is co-hosting the Global Entrepreneurship Summit with India, which brings together more than 1,500 entrepreneurs, investors, and supporters.
Published: Thursday, November 30th, 2017 @ 3:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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More than two dozen East Carolina University students, faculty and staff, as well as members of the Greenville community, have begun an entrepreneurship boot camp called I-Corps to help hone their business ideas and jump start the startup process
Published: Tuesday, November 14th, 2017 @ 9:30 pm
By: ECU News Services
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North Carolina is teeming with new business owners, some of whom not yet old enough for middle school
Published: Monday, October 16th, 2017 @ 1:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The College of Business and its Miller School of Entrepreneurship (MSOE) wants to enhance ECU’s entrepreneurial culture
Published: Saturday, September 2nd, 2017 @ 12:47 am
By: ECU News Services
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East Carolina University's Willis Building is now home to a collaborative partnership aimed at fostering entrepreneurship and giving a leg up to local business start-ups
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 @ 11:50 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The Raleigh Children's Business Fair, co-sponsored by the John William Pope Foundation and the John Locke Foundation, was held at The Commons at North Hills to promote entrepreneurship
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2016 @ 10:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A group of aspiring entrepreneurs will open for business Sept. 10 in The Commons area at Raleigh's North Hills mall.
Published: Friday, September 2nd, 2016 @ 12:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University's Mona Amin is one of 19 students from across the country selected for a prestigious student entrepreneur program.
Published: Wednesday, July 13th, 2016 @ 5:15 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Justin Miller is a former IBM art director who wanted to be a tech entrepreneur
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2016 @ 6:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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At the East Carolina University College of Business, the "E" word is everywhere you look...
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2016 @ 2:08 pm
By: ECU News Services
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I recently had the honor of speaking in favor of occupational licensing reform before a legislative oversight committee.
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2016 @ 6:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week I had the honor of speaking in favor of occupational licensing reform before a legislative oversight committee (you can view my presentation here)...
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2016 @ 5:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Entrepreneurship programs are spreading rapidly across America and are attracting a growing number of students. But one question keeps coming up: Is it really possible to teach entrepreneurship?
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 10:29 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Remember the old tale about a drunken man crawling around under a lamppost? Dating at least as far back as 1924, the joke starts off with a police officer approaching the drunk to ask what he's looking for. In earlier versions of the joke, it's a dollar bill. In later versions, it's a set of car...
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015 @ 3:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For the last decade I have taught entrepreneurship to literally tens of thousands of students in big classes, small seminars, and on the Internet in a massively open online course (MOOC). The sheer diversity of these students - their abilities, their backgrounds, their personal traits, and their...
Published: Thursday, August 20th, 2015 @ 3:40 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Suppose two unknown men are standing in front of us. One has the physique of LeBron James-six foot, eight inches tall, with 260 pounds of rippling muscle-while the other looks like a young Woody Allen-five foot, five inches tall, with narrow shoulders and Coke bottle-thick eyeglasses. We then...
Published: Wednesday, August 19th, 2015 @ 4:01 am
By: John William Pope Center
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East Carolina University today announced its plan to create the first School of Entrepreneurship in the East, made possible by a generous commitment of $5 million by a Raleigh area entrepreneur, J. Fielding Miller, and his wife, Kim Grice Miller.
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2015 @ 2:11 am
By: ECU News Services
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