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...
by Jeff Kaplan | Oct 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
October 8, 2021 Washington, DC – Venture Asheville, the high growth startup initiative of the Economic Development Coalition of Asheville-Buncombe County won a Gold Rank for its Venture Asheville/The Venture 15 and Venture Asheville Honors Programs, a project in...
