PRWeb.com Press Release Feed - PRWeb Press Release Account Feed http://www.rsspad.com/rss2a/254579.xml PRWeb.com Press Release Feed - Press Releases en xml@emediawire.com xml@emediawire.com 30 Carolina Connect Conference Convenes Entrepreneurs, Investors and Bankers in Asheville on September 11 http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/08/prweb1256104.htm The Asheville Hub announced today that entrepreneurs and the investors they want to court will be in Asheville on September 11 for Carolina Connect, a conference that provides professional development to entrepreneurs and networking opportunities to entrepreneurs and investors from across the Southeast. A growing number of entrepreneurs are betting they can turn their start-ups into winners in Asheville. As much as they crave success, they also want the balance in their lives that this progressive and creative city in western North Carolina offers. (PRWeb Aug 29, 2008)

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]]> Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/08/prweb1256104.htm Technology Commercialization Center at A-B Tech Helps Technology Start-Ups Grow and Create Jobs in the Asheville Area http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb791744.htm Three Asheville, NC, companies -- all of them assisted by the Technology Commercialization Center (TCC) at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College -- are among the 16 entrepreneurial companies that will present pitches March 25-26 to investors at InnoVenture, the annual southeastern innovation conference. The Technology Commercialization Center is helping build the western North Carolina economy and its entrepreneurial climate, one technology company at a time, by working closely with each client's management team to achieve their short-term and long-term business goals. TCC, which is associated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has served more than 50 companies since late 2006, creating or retaining 89 jobs in the process. (PRWeb Mar 22, 2008)

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]]> Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb791744.htm Mission Hospitals Grant Will Enable Bent Creek Institute to Equip the Nation's First Genetic Repository for Medicinal Plants http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/11/prweb572560.htm Mission Health & Hospitals announced today that it has made a $50,000 grant that will enable Bent Creek Institute to equip the nation's first germplasm, or genetic repository, for medicinal plants. Bent Creek Institute is a new, cutting-edge research organization whose mission is to discover medicinal treatments for disease based on plants and other organisms that are native to Western North Carolina, the most biodiverse region in North America. Unlocking the secrets of Western North Carolina's vast biodiversity through documented, peer-reviewed science is expected to provide results for use in alternative and complementary medical treatment of human disease, and to enable the region and its workforce to tap into international natural products commerce. (PRWeb Nov 29, 2007)

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]]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/11/prweb572560.htm Power Partners Goes Solar; Georgia Manufacturing Company Begins Manufacturing Lightweight Solar Water Heaters for Professional Installers and Do-It-Yourselfers http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/10/prweb562976.htm Power Partners announced today it has diversified its product portfolio and begun manufacturing a lightweight, roof-mounted solar water heater whose design enables easy installation by professional installers and do-it-yourselfers. The solar water heaters, whose design will be featured Oct. 28 on ABC's Extreme Makeover Home Edition program, are being marketed under the Power Partners Solar name. (PRWeb Oct 23, 2007)

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