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The Importance Of Customer Insights

Marketing 101 teaches the principle of setting your business apart from the competition to be successful. In today’s competitive business landscape, this is not a simple task for any startup. Now more than ever, savvy consumers expect high-quality products, and equally high customer service experiences. A valuable tool to help […]

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Leveraging Mindfulness to Optimize Focus 

April and springtime symbolize change and new possibilities within ourselves and nature. The Center for Creative Economy’s Momentum meetup for April allowed its participants to explores mindfulness practices and help reduce stress and increase creativity. Rahul Kulkarni, the founder of Sukhi, led this journey to a mindful state. Rahul studied […]

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Center for Creative Economy hosts SHINE, a Creative Showcase and 10th Anniversary Celebration Event at The Ramkat

Press Release- The Center for Creative Economy will host SHINE, a creative showcase and celebration to honor its 10th anniversary, on Tuesday, May 24th, 2022. The event will be held from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at The Ramkat, 170 W. 9th St., in Winston Salem. www.ccetriad.com/shine. The Champion sponsor for this event […]

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Creative Entrepreneurs Receive $1,000 and numerous Awards from the Center for Creative Economy

Winston Salem, NC – March 22th, 2022 – Nine idea-stage entrepreneurs earned awards during the Center for Creative Economy’s Kinetic Creative Bootcamp’s final presentation.  CCE accepted nine creative teams all from Winston Salem, NC to participate in Kinetic, a 4-week cohort-based program that helps aspiring entrepreneurs workshop their early-stage creative […]

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The Basics of NFT Creation

The Center for Creative Economy thrives on the creativity of entrepreneurs, and at February’s Momentum meetup our panelist, Kevin Clark, and our moderator, Ryan Schmaltz, introduced a great way to do just that. Last month, in part one of this two-part series, Kevin introduced Web3 and the Metaverse. For part […]

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An Introduction to Web 3 and the Metaverse

A new year brings new possibilities and the Momentum January meetup provided the chance for our local audiences in Winston-Salem and new fans across the country to increase their knowledge of Web 3 technology and the Metaverse. The discussion was led by Kevin Clark, Founder of Point Motion, and a […]

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Creative Entrepreneurs Win Seed Funding and Resources for Growth at Velocity
Accelerator Demo Day

Winston Salem, NC – October 7, 2021 – Three east coast based startups will share $50,000 inseed-stage funding from the Center for Creative Economy’s Velocity Creative Accelerator basedin Winston-Salem.The Velocity Accelerator culminated in a pitch competition September 30th followed by anAwards Breakfast on October 1st. The organization’s sixth annual accelerator […]

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Four Creative Entrepreneurs Receive Awards from CCE’s Kinetic Bootcamp

Four idea-stage entrepreneurs earned awards during the Center for Creative Economy’s Kinetic Creative Bootcamp final presentation. CCE accepted four creative entrepreneurs from Winston Salem, NC and Berlin, Germany to participate in Kinetic, a 4-week intensive entrepreneurial program guaranteed to turn creative ideas into growing businesses. Throughout the program, participants showed […]

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Three Creative Companies Win Top Prizes from the Velocity Creative Accelerator

Three startups have earned the top seed-stage investment awards in the Center for Creative Economy’s Velocity Creative Accelerator. In the organization’s fifth annual education and seed funding program, ten creative entrepreneurs completed a 9-week entrepreneur education program that refined their business plans and pitches to investors to be one of […]

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