CED's Mission Statement
To identify, enable and promote high-growth, high-impact companies and to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina.
CED is a community of people inspired by entrepreneurship, and includes a wide range of members including startup companies, more mature growth-stage firms, investors, service partners, academics, and individuals. All who wish to be part of this dynamic enterprise are invited to participate. CED was founded in 1984, and later incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, to identify, enable and promote high-growth, high-impact companies and accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, forums, workshops and programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. CED has helped entrepreneurs in a myriad of industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, life sciences, and service companies, from one-person start-ups to 1,000-person businesses. With more than 5,500 active members representing over 1,100 companies, CED is the largest entrepreneurial support organization of its kind in the United States.
About CED
CED, the southeast’s largest entrepreneurial support organization, connects emerging growth companies with the necessary tools and resources to start something new. A private, non-profit organization, CED harnesses its broad network to support companies that want to take their business to the next level. As the oldest entrepreneurial network in the country, CED has enabled entrepreneurs to raise more than one billion dollars in capital, launched more than 700 companies and currently serves more than 5,500 active members representing nearly 1,100 companies in North Carolina.
Greetings,
I will be out of the country so I won’t make the next meeting. The notes from the recent meeting were interesting. Many of the points made I agree with. I have found that I am not as interested in mentoring very early stage companies with just an idea or limited business plan and/or in a business that doesn’t have a lot of potential in my view (tee shirt company, local newspaper, etc.).
I understand that those folks do want and need mentoring, it is just that my desire and focus is to work with companies that are more fully formed and are in markets that have big needs and the potential for significant growth. That is where I have been in my life and that is where I feel the most comfortable giving advice, etc.
Those are my two cents for this morning. Excellent program. Keep it moving forward.
John Fahlberg
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