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Greenville boutique plant shop switching sides on Augusta Street
Greenville native and vocal performance alumna Leyly Bagherof '18 speaks to The Post and Courier about her entrepreneurial journey and store residents Rosie, Mike and Fergie. (Spoiler: They are plants.)
Continue ReadingCalling all entrepreneurs and innovators: Advantage Greenville happens Nov. 18
The networking event and information session for aspiring entrepreneurs is presented by The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the City of Greenville.
Continue ReadingTruist Foundation awards grant to The Hill Institute’s GVL Starts to support startup ventures
Truist Foundation has awarded The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship's GVL Starts a $75,000 grant to support startup ventures.
Continue ReadingUPSTATE BUSINESS JOURNAL: Dionne Sandiford launches a cozy concept
Entrepreneur, business owner and self-described "threadmaster" Dionne Sandiford knows you don't have to go it alone when launching a business venture or product. Sandiford, owner of Corporate Stitch, leaned on The Hill Institute for Innovation...
Continue ReadingFor Greenville’s Andrew Kurtz, Kopis’ goal is to create software ‘where it doesn’t exist’
Furman University accounting alumnus Andrew Kurtz '87 started his career in public accounting before launching out on his own with Kopis in 1999. The Greenville News recently covered Kurtz and his software solutions company. “We...
Continue ReadingFunding local ventures + a new West End eatery
The everything Greenville platform, GVL Today, spotlights the city's first #StartupGVL event, which took place in recent weeks. Among the organizations hosting incubator events was The Hill Institute for Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the...
Continue ReadingThe Hill Institute at Furman launches Angel Analyst Fellowship program, collaborates with VentureSouth
Several news outlets ran a story about Furman University's collaboration with VentureSouth to launch the Angel Analyst Fellowship program, an initiative of The Robert and Margaret Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. See coverage in...
Continue ReadingVenture Carolina announces inaugural class of the Palmetto Venture Fellowship
Anthony Hererra, chief innovation officer at Furman University's The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, is among a 38-member inaugural cohort of the Palmetto Venture Fellowship, an initiative of Venture Carolina and the South Carolina...
Continue ReadingO Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum
The trappings of Christmas – stockings hung by the chimney with care, mistletoe, the crush of holiday shoppers, St. Nick and his doppelgangers, a rainbow of lights, bellringers, too much food, brightly packaged gifts, and...
Continue ReadingS.C. schools usher in innovation centers
Furman University's Anthony Herrera, executive director of The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, goes on record in a SC Biz News story about the growing presence of business incubators on campuses in the state....
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