by Jeff Kaplan | Jan 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
From our full newsletter Hot off the presses (thanks again to Jason Parker at WRAL TechWire)ASHEVILLE – Ecobot, the provider of a cloud-based platform designed to enhance effectiveness and efficiency in mandatory pre-construction environmental permitting, has raised...
by Jeff Kaplan | Jan 5, 2022 | Startup Life, Uncategorized
December 17, 2021 Watch the live stream of the event here – https://fb.watch/alJY52PxEy/ Asheville, NC — Fifteen local startups were honored as the fastest growing Asheville-area headquartered startups at the Venture 15 and Venture Asheville Honors celebration...
by Jeff Kaplan | Oct 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
You know how they say it costs 3x as much to get a new customer as to keep a customer? Or how employee retention vs recruitment can cost 90-150% of an annual salary? Here’s my new prediction – when this pandemic shakes out we’ll have a new stat:...
by Jeff Kaplan | Oct 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Writing as of October, 2021 – We’ve come to an imbalance of the Force in Elevate, our Mentorship program. We now have way more mentors than Founders. We had the opposite problem about a year ago. So we’re back to recruiting Founders. Who is a good...
by Jeff Kaplan | Oct 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Over time as corporations grow, mature, and formalize, executives delegate to managers and managers coordinate across divisions, and divisions lead to bureaucracy and red tape. At each stage of corporate growth, the entrepreneurial spirit is diminished. Growing levels...
by Jeff Kaplan | Oct 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
From LinkedIn “Anyone else love shopping at Earth Fare? Well, it’s about to get even better! Cardstalk is putting our first ever print-on-demand greeting card kiosk into the Asheville Earth Fare – THIS WEEK! You can check us out...
