Asheville Entrepreneurship Week

Encouraging our citizens to celebrate the remarkable and everyday successes of our entrepreneurs and innovators

#AEW23 Calendar

Monday 9/11
  • Creating a Culture of Peak Performance
    • Monday, 9/11, 9-10:30am
    • How your team performs together is critical to your success as an entrepreneur. In this experiential and interactive workshop, you’ll gain insights into the beliefs, tools, and framework to use to create peak performance within your team. Through representing hundreds of organizations as a former founder and CEO of a nationally-recognized law firm, Jennifer Germaine created the Conscious Culture Creation framework to help organizations navigate the biggest pitfalls and conflict holding their team hostage from the results they desire. Kick off Entrepreneurship Week by joining this discussion on Monday morning at Hatch Co-Working Space. We’ll bring the coffee!
    • Register here

  • The New Growth Edge: Authenticity in Modern Business
    • Time: 3-5pm EST with a Mix and Mingle option until 6pm
    • Lean into the new growth edge and grow your business from an authentic voice. Easier said than done, right? Come unravel the mystery of authenticity and learn HOW to feel confident in your ability to listen to your voice, know how to access it, and use it to cultivate a culture where you can effectively communicate your vision and goals to grow your business. Because growing a business that is in alignment with YOU not only strengthens your company, but refines your customers, clients and team.
    • Join Deanna Jannuzzi for an engaging and interactive, two-hour circle where we explore how authenticity and presence can redefine how you engage in business and be a leader. Together, we will learn tangible practices to increase greater presence and awareness through the utilization of mindfulness tools, somatic practices, and breath techniques. We will also discuss ways to cultivate more effective communication, so your message and goals don’t get lost in translation.
    • Register here

  • BWS will be hosting Vibe Co-Working and Day Party
    • Full of food, music, vendors and positive vibrations Monday Sept. 11 from 10am-3pm 
    • and Friday Sept. 15 from 10am-12pm.

  • Making it in Asheville Maker Mixer

 

  • Hatch Pitch Party 
    • 6:00PM
    • Anyone interested can come at 5:15 for expert feedback before the pitch party
    • Hatch Event Space 45 South French Broad Ave
    • Starting a new business or have an idea that might become one? Come try out your pitch. Or, if you are just looking for inspiration and want to listen and network in a super-supportive environment, please join us at the Hatch Asheville Pitch Party.
    • Event Link
Tuesday 9/12

  • Understanding the AVL Economy, with Clark Duncan and Jeffrey Kaplan
    • 9:00-10:00 AM 
    • Harrah’s Cherokee Center Asheville (Civic Center), 87 Haywood Street, Asheville
    • We will be in the Banquet Room. (When you walk in, go upstairs and to the left)
    • Join us for a conversation about the regional economy, featuring the Executive Director of the Economic Development Coalition Clark Duncan and Director of Venture Asheville, Jeffrey Kaplan. Understand the data and trends that shape our region’s industries and jobs today and tomorrow. 
    • Cohosted by the Asheville Digital Nomads, the Economic Development Coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County, and Venture Asheville
    • Register Here https://www.meetup.com/avl-digital-nomads/events/295050910/

  • A-B Tech Small Business Center 
    • Best Practices for Craft Beverage Entrepreneurs: Inspection and Compliance (Online) 
    • Craft beverage operations, by law, are classified as food production facilities. Breweries and beverage processors are required to comply with State and Federal regulations outlined in Title 21 CFR Part 117. Join the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and Quest Food Consulting as we navigate the current regulatory environment and offer solutions to not only successful inspections, but also Good Brewing and Manufacturing Practices, standard operating procedures, food safety planning, and making consistent, high-quality beverages. This seminar will provide you with the tools and resources needed to:
      • Guide you through inspection requirements
      • Adopt or improve your food safety and quality system
      • Determine your current state of compliance
      • Identify opportunities for improvement
      • Lower turnover, improve production efficiency, reduce waste
      • Control contamination, decrease customer complaints
    •  Please register at: https://www.ncsbc.net/workshop.aspx?ekey=590430149 

  • How to Thrive in a Recession(When You Are Self Employed)
    • 2:00 – 3:30 p.m., Presenter: Hannah Cole, Virtual via Zoom
    • Register here
    • There’s been talk of a looming recession, and seemingly much to fear: inflation, interest rates, bank failures. But do you need to panic? In short: no. Join Hannah Cole for an empowering class on shoring up your personal finances to stay protected during an economic downturn, and to learn ways that you can position your business for surviving and even thriving in a recession. 

  • Tech Talks with Ric Pratte Founder of Asheville Digital Nomads
    • 6:00-8:00PM
    • Hosted by Eli The Computer Guy at the Hatch Innovation Hub (45 South French Broad Ave)
    • https://www.meetup.com/silicon-dojo-free-technology-education/events/294227810/
    • Do you want to understand the modern world of technology and business? Do you want to know how Asheville fits into the tech ecosystem? Do you want to find a place in this new world of AI, Robots and Smart Toasters?
    • Our Fireside chat series brings in local technology entrepreneurs, founders, professionals, and the people that support us to discuss what it takes to try to be successful. These are conversations about what is happening TODAY, and are the thoughts of the people that are working in the trenches trying to make their organizations successful.
    • Ric Pratte is a co founder of Asheville Digital Nomads the largest Meetup in Asheville by far. They cater to new arrivals, folks who work from home, and a very techie crowd. They have grown massively in a short amount of time and are now becoming a 501c3.
Wednesday 9/13
  • EMPOWER Body Mind Soul
    • 9:15AM
    • Uphora Dance Studio
    • 75 Min Class. Drop-in for a single class for $20
    • https://www.empowerbodymindsoul.com/live-events
    • 💗 EMPOWER combines tools for nervous system regulation & emotional resilience with functional strength training & intuitive pleasure-based movement & self love, for a complete body, mind, soul activation.
    • ➡️ Connect to your inner wisdom
    • ➡️ Transform your emotional reactions
    • ➡️ Release shame & self-judgement
    • ➡️ Balance anxiety & depression
    • ➡️ Build strength, resilience & self-esteem
    • ➡️ Honor your boundaries & reclaim your sovereignty 
    • ➡️ Embody the empowered leader that you are here to be
    • ➡️ Start to create & receive at the level you are truly worthy of

  • A-B Tech Small Business Center 
    • Using WordPress to Build a Website for Your Business (Online) – 9/13/2023
    • Do you have a local business and are trying to get the word out about it? Looking for new clients, or trying to show that your business has a new and improved look? From landscaping to catering companies, everybody needs a website and there is no easier platform these days than WordPress. With the ability to easily add content, Google maps, videos and photos, that is no reason why your business should not have an impressive looking website full of details and ways for potential clients to contact you.
    • Please register at: https://www.ncsbc.net/workshop.aspx?ekey=20430034 

    • How to Be An Entrepreneur Without Starting a Company
      • 3:00pm
      • Workshop by Will Samson
      • Description and link coming soon
    Thursday 9/14

    • Venture Asheville’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Speaker Series
      • 8:30-10:00AM
      • Featuring a keynote, book release, and book signing with Brad Stulberg
      • Ticketed event, hosted by Presenting Sponsor UNCA
      • Brad Stulberg researches, writes, and coaches on health, well-being, and sustainable excellence. He is the bestselling author of The Practice of Groundedness and co-author of Peak Performance. Stulberg regularly contributes to the New York Times, and his work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, Outside Magazine, Forbes, and other outlets. He also serves as the co-host of The Growth Equation podcast and is on faculty at the University of Michigan’s Graduate School of Public Health. In his coaching practice, he works with executives, entrepreneurs, physicians, and athletes on their mental skills and overall well-being. 
      • Ticket purchase comes with light breakfast and a copy of Brad’s new book, Master of Change
      • TICKET LINK

    • Asheville Digital Nomads Happy Hour
      • 5:30PM
      • Archetype South Slope Rooftop at 39 Banks Ave
      • Connecting remote workers to the local business community is central to the AVL Digital Nomads mission. Venture Asheville is again organizing Asheville Entrepreneur Week from 9/11 through 9/15. Our social celebration will be part of the week’s activities. Nobody socializes in Asheville quite like us!
      • We’ll be in South Slope, close to other festivities for the week. For this event, join us at Archetype Brewery on their rooftop, Bleu Sky Bar. Who doesn’t love a good view of Mt. Pisgah with a cold beverage? Head on up to the top floor—as always, we’ll have our signature name tags to help ease introductions.
      • Archetype South Slope has a delicious menu—ordering is available from Bleu Sky Bar.
      • Register Here https://www.meetup.com/avl-digital-nomads/events/295051234/
    Friday 9/15
    •  2:00 PM
      •  YogaSix “Restore” class, a fantastic recovery and re-energizing sequence.
      • It will be accessible to the novice or the experienced Yogi. The classis free and exclusive to all AEW sponsors and attendees. The studio can hold ~28 students, availability “first come, first serve”.
      • Y6 Restore emphasizes floor postures in a warmed room to stretch, open, and release the major muscle groups of the entire body. Some benefits of a restorative practice include improved sleep, fewer injuries, and reduced aches & pains!
      • The address is 1829 Hendersonville Rd Suite 80 Asheville NC 28803.

    • BWS will be hosting Vibe Co-Working and Day Party
      • Full of food, music, vendors and positive vibrations Monday Sept. 11 from 10am-3pm 
      • and Friday Sept. 15 from 10am-12pm.
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