LinkedIn said what we've been feeling for a long time - Asheville is officially a national leader as a rising tech hub! 7th in the nation, 1st in the state.  The rankings are determined by job growth from 2019 through this March 2022. We are a smaller market, so the...

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...

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: cost of employee...

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 fit? ...

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...

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 at https://cardstalk.ink . Artists can...

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...

Looking at this year's cohort we see reflective and surprising trends. We've got a nice little video you can watch, and I'll highlight a few stats here.   2020 Venture 15 and Venture Asheville Honors Stats $62M in local revenue 345 Jobs Avg. Age of Ventures is 3.8...

Announcing the 2020 Asheville Impact Micro Grant Winners Six entrepreneurs split $25,000 in grant funding to launch their startups (Asheville, NC, June 10, 2020) - Venture Asheville awarded six entrepreneurs micro grants totaling $25,000 to help launch new ventures....

Venture Asheville Raises $25,000 to Launch 5 Startups with Asheville Impact Micro Grant Fund Applications now open for $5,000 grants to start five new companies (ASHEVILLE, NC,  April 28, 2020) – Venture Asheville, the entrepreneurship initiative of the Economic...

Atlanta > Chattanooga > Nashville   9 startups, 3 cities, 1 van. This road trip is designed to pull high-growth opportunities out of geographically isolated areas and into venues where they can make critical introductions in a short period of time. Good for...