In this week’s episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Jeff Kaplan Director at Venture Asheville and Co-Founder and CEO of Just Kibbitz. We speak about start-ups, growing your team, and how learning about your customer is your best investment.
Show Highlights What is Venture Asheville and how does it support the start-up community (1:59) Celebrating entrepreneurship and the impact of Startups in the community with the Venture 15 (6:33) Why a co-founder is so helpful for a start-up venture (12:05) Importance of a team and how they can help you deliver exponential growth (16:12) A case study in helping define your customers with JustKibbitz (25:00) Jeff mentions a book called Radical Marketing and how you can engage people who love you the most to support your organization (33:28) https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Marketing-Harvard-Harley-Lessons/dp/0887309798
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You can learn more about Venture Asheville http://ventureasheville.com (http://ventureasheville.com) or follow them on Social Media on https://www.facebook.com/VentureAVL (Facebook), Twitter @venutreavl and https://www.linkedin.com/company/venture-asheville/ (LinkedIn) Learn more about JustKibbitz at https://www.justkibbitz.com (https://www.justkibbitz.com) or on Instagram @justkibbitz and https://www.facebook.com/justkibbitz (Facebook ) Read Tracy’s article on the https://medium.com/@tracy.eames/launching-a-business-7-ways-to-learn-from-our-first-year-406065634067 (“7 Lessonss we Learned in our First Year” ) Learn more about how TEAMES & CO builds effective and empowered start up teams that deliver results at https://teamesandco.com/teams/start-ups
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