Welcome to VentureAsheville.com, a hub of connectivity for Asheville’s high-growth entrepreneurial ecosystem. Many game-changing entrepreneurs choose to call Asheville home. They come for the mountains, the music, the vibrant downtown scene and the progressive ethos that welcomes all. VentureAsheville.com enables our entrepreneurs and the talented professionals who build companies with them to go quicker, fail faster, scale more rapidly, and ultimately create valuable high-growth ventures.
VentureAsheville.com specifically supports Asheville’s high-growth companies, by which we mean companies that typically possess these 3 characteristics:
- Create rapidly scalable products and services
- Pursue national or international markets and sales channels beyond Asheville
- Fund growth through equity financing instead of more traditional channels such as bank loans
THE SITE STRATEGY
VentureAsheville.com is a site where:
- High-growth entrepreneurs can quickly access resources needed to scale
- Investors can gain an overview of the Asheville entrepreneurial landscape
- Accomplished executives and serial entrepreneurs can contribute their expertise as mentors
- Professionals can efficiently plug into Asheville’s startup community
- The broader marketplace can discover our unique startups and high-growth companies
To pursue these objectives we created the following sections and features:
- Featured Ventures: Showcases locally-based, innovative, high growth ventures
- Events Calendar: Lists entrepreneurship and tech-related events plus educational programs and seminars
- Job Board: Lists jobs with emerging startups and high-growth companies
- Resource Links: Lists sources of capital as well as local professional and educational services that support entrepreneurship
- Investors: Provides an introduction to the Asheville Angel Network
- Mentors: Provides information about the mentorship program we offer to entrepreneurs creating high-growth companies
- Education Library (coming soon): Features podcasts and videos covering local entrepreneurs, investors, and talent
- Blog: Offers timely updates about Asheville’s startup community. Topics include:
- Press coverage of Asheville startups, investors and talent base
- Equity investment announcements
- Strategic partnership and/or milestone announcements
- Talent profiles
- Venture Asheville event coverage
- Asheville accolades and awards
Check out the About section of the site to learn more about who we are and our vision for where we’re going. We also welcome feedback. If you’d like to contact us please reach out to Josh Dorfman, Director of Entrepreneurship, at josh@ventureasheville.com or 828-258-6137.
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Josh Dorfman explains Venture Asheville’s strategy to nurture high-growth ventures.
