CED News/Events, Press Release // Board of Directors, business, businessplan, entrepreneurship, GRO, NC, north carolina, Startup, Tech PRESS RELEASE: CED’s Venture Connect Summit + Celebration Returns for Two Full-Days March 29-30, 2023 RTP, NC, December 19, 2022 — The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) today announced the 2023 Venture Connect Summit + Celebration is scheduled for March 29-30 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Returning to a two-day format, the Summit will feature 150 companies from the Southeast live on-stage, ecosystem focused programming, one-on-one meeting, networking receptions, […]
Partners // business, businessplan, entrepreneurship, GRO, NC, north carolina, Tech The Importance of Community for Startups: Lessons from Phil Dixon CED had an opportunity to sit down with Cirrus Insight’s current CEO Phil Dixon on critical lessons learned as a serial entrepreneur. Cirrus Insight is a growth-focused startup that equips Sales Teams with Salesforce automation and Sales Acceleration tools. Cirrus Insight experienced significant growth in 2020 when it merged with ZynBit, a competing startup founded […]
Entrepreneur // business, businessplan, entrepreneurship, GRO, NC, north carolina, Startup, Tech Using Crowdfunding to Fund Your Startup Startup founders often ask me about using crowdfunding as a fundraising strategy to launch their startup. For many consumer products companies, this may be a good path to test product concepts. However, for those that want to raise equity, the misconception that crowdfunding is the easier path, vs the traditional path of finding friends and family, […]
CED News/Events, Press Release // business, businessplan, entrepreneurship, GRO, north carolina, Startup, Tech PRESS RELEASE: CED Announces GRO Demo Day CED Announces GRO Demo Day Following in the footsteps of some 1,000 North Carolina companies before them, nine new companies are ready to present their story RTP, NC, September 7, 2022 — The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) announces GRO Demo Day for its’ summer cohort, this event will be held in-person, Thursday, October 6 […]
CED News/Events // GRO The Secret Sauce of CED’s GRO Program The most important aspect of any accelerator or incubator program is the experts you will meet, learn from, and work with. CED is blessed to have a deep and rich network of experts it called on as we put together our GRO incubator. We refer to these folks as CED’s “secret sauce.”