All Posts Tagged 'entrepreneurship' (11)

You’re an entrepreneur starting a venture with high-growth potential. You have a promising business plan and the drive and enthusiasm needed to take your product or idea to market. The problem? Credit cards are maxed out. You’ve borrowed all you can from friends and family (still managing to keep your relationships intact). The banks aren’t ready to talk to you - and…

InnoVenture.com connects people with big ideas about making the world a better place with customers, capital, talent and technology. They are looking for presentations from entrepreneurs in industry, academic centers, entrepreneurial companies and not-for-profits to:

• feature on-stage or remotely at the InnoVenture2013 conference May 8-9 in Greenville, SC

• share with their clients who have resources available for new…

The Blue Ridge Entrepreneurial Council (BREC) is offering free admission for two to Venture Local 2012 on December 7th in Asheville, NC. Venture Local is WNC's premier event connecting local, sustainable, and social impact entrepreneurs with each other, investors, and the resources they need to succeed.…

Sponsored by Blue Ridge Food Ventures and Mountain BizWorks with support from the NC Tobacco Trust…

And I thought I was the only one that thought Asheville beer and talking economic clusters was a good combination!  Asheville's booming beer industry receives as well earned feature in today's Wall Street Journal (http://t.co/UCxZoco) and put WNC on the map as a hot spot for new startups.  AdvantageWest's Blue Ridge Food Ventures value-added food and natural products incubator also got a mention.  From the article...…

HandMade in America announces an opening for a Director of Craft Entrepreneurship (DCEn). This new position will replace the Director of Rural Entrepreneurship.  The position will focus on major educational programs, materials, and services for craft artisan development and meet the objectives of HandMade's craft…

Mountain BizWorks presents "Getting it Right the First Time," a free 2-hour critical issues seminar as part of the WNC Durable Business Leadership Forum.

Guest Speaker: Dale Freudenberger, President, FLS Energy…

The U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) and its Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship today announced the opening of its $12 million i6 Green Challenge in partnership with the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, and Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. ‪

EDA will award up to $1 million to each of six teams…

InnoVenture Southeast 2011 is accepting applications to present from champions in industry, academia and entrepreneurial firms who have game changing opportunities and seeking customers, capital, talent, or technology from influential, connected…