A Conversation with Jeff Kaplan

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 

1. What is Venture Asheville and how does it support the start-up community  (1:59)
2. Celebrating entrepreneurship and the impact of Startups in the community with the Venture 15 (6:33)
3. Why a co-founder is so helpful for a start-up venture (12:05)
4. Importance of a team and how they can help you deliver exponential growth (16:12)
5. A case study in helping define your customers with JustKibbitz (25:00)
6. Jeff mentions a book called Radical Marketing and how you can engage people who love you the most to support your organization (33:28)
7. https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Marketing-Harvard-Harley-Lessons/dp/0887309798

Related Links

• You can learn more about Venture Asheville http://ventureasheville.com  or follow them on Social Media on Facebook, Twitter @venutreavl  and LinkedIn 
•  Learn more about JustKibbitz at https://www.justkibbitz.com  or on Instagram @justkibbitz and Facebook 
• Read Tracy’s article on the “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

Related Episodes: Learn more about Investing in your teams https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/building-teams-with-teames-co/id1530838871?i=1000500320735

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