by Jeff Kaplan | Dec 5, 2016 | Happenings
A daylong intensive workshop providing entrepreneurs and business professionals with the basic “practical” tools for B2B sales success Friday, February 3rd at The Collider Kent Summers teaches the B2B Startup Sales Bootcamp at Harvard Business School, the Wharton...
by Jeff Kaplan | Nov 29, 2016 | Happenings
Cheryl Childers is a corporate shaman (see: Wisdom Arts Leadership), a mentor with the Elevate program, and the co-founder of TBWA\Media Arts Lab in LA. Which is all to say she’s a total rockstar. We asked Cheryl to share more about her time at Media Arts (aka...
by Jeff Kaplan | Sep 14, 2016 | Happenings
Elevate, Venture Asheville’s entrepreneurship development program, is now accepting applications for its third cohort of 15 early-stage, high-growth startups. Elevate enables startup founders to rapidly navigate the daily challenges of building great...
by Jeff Kaplan | Sep 14, 2016 | Happenings
Is your startup developing an innovative technology and in need of a cash infusion to more quickly become a commercially viable, high-growth enterprise? NC IDEA has granted over $4.5 million in seed funding to 109 NC-based companies, which have gone on to raise over...
by Jeff Kaplan | Sep 8, 2016 | Happenings
Nearly doubling its staff by adding 150 new technology jobs is no small feat for AvL Technologies. It’s Asheville’s greatest technology success story to-date. As the industry leading, international company scales its operations to enter new markets,...
by Jeff Kaplan | Aug 26, 2016 | Happenings
Eight of America’s fastest growing private companies call the Asheville area home and were honored in the Inc. 5000’s list released last week. Life sciences venture Avadim Technologies was one of only eight NC companies that made the elite Inc. 500...