All Young Professionals are invited to this professional development session to walk through Venture Asheville. Venture Asheville is the high growth startup initiative of the Economic Development Coalition, building entrepreneurs and getting startups funded. WTF does that even mean? Come join us and find out as we meet Jeffrey Kaplan, Director of Venture Asheville. In his time at Venture Asheville, Jeffrey helped local startups earn over $100M in revenue, raise over $55M in capital, and create over 360 jobs at an average salary of $78K/year. Jeffrey will demystify entrepreneurship, explain what Venture Asheville does, why, and how.