Buck Goldstein is the University Entrepreneur in Residence and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joined the University faculty in 2004 to help build The Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative, a multi-year, multi-million dollar project to make entrepreneurship, broadly defined, part of the intellectual fabric of the campus. The UNC entrepreneurship curriculum has been named by a variety of national publications as among the nation’s best.

Goldstein is the co-founder of Information America, an online information and database business, that evolved over a 15 year period from start-up through venture financing to public company before it was ultimately acquired by the Thomson Corporation. He subsequently became a partner in Mellon Ventures, the venture capital arm of Mellon Bank where he served on the Board of numerous early stage information companies.

Goldstein was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Information Industry Association and Information America appeared numerous times on the Inc 500 list of fastest growing companies. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina and an honors graduate of its law school.

Blog Entries by Buck Goldstein

Beyond Science Fiction

Posted July 1, 2008 | 02:32 PM (EST)


As you head for the beach with a canvas bag full of science fiction, the activities of one of the world's great inventors will top anything you or your favorite author can possibly conjure up. This year's winner of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT award for invention, Dr. Joe DeSimone, (full disclosure...

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Health Care Reform is Coming -- But From the Bottom Up

Posted June 17, 2008 | 10:22 PM (EST)


The latest round of announcements from Google and Microsoft about their partnerships and initiatives to fix the US healthcare system reminds us all that it is seriously broken. Health care costs are growing at 4.4 times the rate of inflation and 3.7 times the rate of increase of the average...

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4 Things UNC Can Expect with an Entrepreneur in Charge

Posted May 27, 2008 | 03:26 PM (EST)


On July 1, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the nation's leading universities, will have a new leader. In addition to being a distinguished academic chemist and the holder of multiple patents, UNC's new Chancellor is a serial entrepreneur. The Chronicle of Higher Education, in announcing...

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