Jake Sorofman, Digital Marketing
Every startup needs a marketing maven who can take “the big idea” and position it for rapid market expansion. Jake Sorofman has played that senior marketing role for six software startups who collectively have raised over $200 million in venture capital. Jake is an...
Tagg’d Hits Media Spotlight at One Million Cups
“Art is everywhere,” Brendan Fitzgerald said Wednesday during One Million Cups Asheville. “A lot of it is in hidden corridors of your city that you don't know about.” Fitzgerald’s new mobile app Taggd' helps “people find, geotag and share photographs of street art...
Dorfman on startups: “We can create the opportunities”
Asheville Citizen-Times' new reporter Caitlin Byrd who covers innovators, entrepreneurs and startups sat down with Josh Dorfman, Director of Entrepreneurship Development at Venture Asheville, to talk about the organization's goals and progress. Here are some...
Making Connections at the Tech Job Fair
One of Venture Asheville’s primary goals is to connect fast-growing ventures with much-needed talent. Our first Tech Job Fair & Mixer last Thursday attracted over 60 attendees. They had a chance to meet with and hear presentations from executives of six tech...
Huffington Post Calls Asheville The Next Green Tech Town
Innovation Earth: The Next Green Tech Town, The Huffington Post Excerpt: A study released last week by the Georgetown Climate Center shows that less than half of U.S. states are preparing for the coming effects of climate change. (Full rundown of the study here, at...
RISC Networks Partners with Amazon Web Services
RISC Networks is proud to announce its official partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), a global leader in the cloud computing arena. With this new partnership, RISC Networks can offer AWS clients the technology they need to support their platforms. AWS is the...
Federal Reserve official meets with Asheville Entrepreneurs
Excerpt from the Asheville Citizen-Times: Federal Reserve official sees slow, steady growth ahead. After a two-day visit to the area, Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, found plenty of reasons to be optimistic about Asheville’s economy....
Asheville Angels Takes Flight
Are you a startup founder in need of capital? If you've got a great team and are going after a big market, Asheville's newest angel investor group wants to hear from you. Asheville Angels invests in and supports startup and early-stage, high-growth companies. The...
Craig McAnsh, Branding Expert
You may know him as the Founder of Mojo Coworking, but for Craig McAnsh, creating a co-working space for Asheville's entrepreneurs is just one aspect of his business acumen. A highly sought after advertising, marketing and branding expert, Craig has worked with...
Eagle’s Nest Outfitters
Co-Founders: Peter & Paul Pinholster
Site: ENO
The Lowdown: Packable parachute hammocks for camping and travel
Awesomeness: World’s leading distributor of packable hammocks
RISC Networks Wins 2014 Cloudys Innovation Award
Congratulations to RISC Networks CloudScape in being honored by Channel Partners as a 2014 Most Innovative Cloud Enablement Tool! RISC Networks Cloudscape is the industry’s first combined data center and cloud IaaS readiness analytics platform. It provides IT...
Chad Martin, Internet Marketing & Real Estate
Sometimes business growth happens at the most unlikely time. Chad Martin started his real estate internet marketing career with the world’s largest international resort developer over 10 years ago. In 2009 Chad set out to create Element-360, an internet marketing and...
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