COED Announces North Atlanta Venture Mentoring Service’s 2023 Mentor of the Year
ATLANTA, GA — On Thursday, January 18, the Cherokee Office of Economic Development (COED) named Jim Bulger as the second annual North Atlanta Venture Mentoring Service (NAV) Mentor of the Year Award. The NAV program offers team-based mentoring, as principled and trained by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Venture Mentoring Service (VMS). NAV launched in 2019 and has been […]
Mentee to Mentor: Alma Coffee’s Fifth-Generation Coffee and First-Generation Entrepreneurs
The North Atlanta Venture Mentoring Service (NAV) is proud to announce the graduation of Alma Coffee! Alma will be the program’s first venture to graduate and transition from mentee to mentor this fall. Leticia and Harry Hutchins began Alma Coffee in The Circuit, Cherokee County’s first co-working space, opening their first café there in May […]
COED Announces North Atlanta Venture Mentoring Service’s Mentor of the Year
On Thursday, January 19, the Cherokee Office of Economic Development (COED) announced the first North Atlanta Venture Mentoring Service (NAV) Mentor of the Year Award. NAV is a program made possible through the Cherokee By Choice initiative – a five-year results-driven public/private partnership aimed at reinforcing Cherokee’s role as a leader in economic development. NAV […]
COED Launches Team-Based Entrepreneur Mentoring Program
The Cherokee Office of Economic Development (COED) announced the launch of the North Atlanta Venture Mentoring Service (NAV) today at The Circuit Woodstock to an engaged audience of Cherokee locals and community leaders. Headquartered in Cherokee, NAV represents Georgia’s first entrepreneur mentorship program principled and trained by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Venture Mentoring […]
Rising Small Business Rockstars and the Mentors that Inspire Success
Mentorship is a two-way street, but with the North Atlanta Venturing Mentoring Program (NAV) – it’s a multiple-lane highway. Tucked along a short 1.5 mile stretch on Highway 5 in Holly Springs are two rockstar businesses that have taken the NAV program by storm: Alma Coffee and SuiteSciens. NAV is changing the way startups do […]
Entrepreneurship Reimagined: COED Launches First Ever Mentorship Program
Our team at the Cherokee Office of Economic Development (COED) recently launched our newest entrepreneurship initiative, the North Atlanta Venture Mentoring Service (NAV). Headquartered in Cherokee County, NAV is the first of its kind in the state of Georgia. The program was made possible through the Cherokee By Choice initiative – a five-year results-driven public/private […]