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In Asheville, A New Path Forward To Fund Startup Businesses Is Emerging

Asheville, July 24 (HYPEPOTAMUS) - Give away equity or take on debt financing. Those have been the typical routes founders who need money to scale can take. But a new fund up in Asheville, North Carolina, called Optimist Ventures, has a different idea…one that its CEO says can be a

Tariffs Nearly Broke This Asheville Startup. Here’s How It Adapted and Grew.

In July of 2025 North Carolina entrepreneur Erik Fabian had a full-length featured article in the Business Section of The New York Times. That might sound like a dream for any young startup company, especially one building in the crowded consumer products market like he was with his company,

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