Knife-Making in RVA
It was during his time living in an inner city Chicago mission seven years ago that now-Richmonder Brent Stubblefield began making knives. “I lived with all these old hippies and they all did stuff like leatherworking, making things with their hands, and a couple guys showed me how to make knives,” recalls Stubblefield, who-if you […]
Businessweek Reporter Brings Radio Show to RVA
RVA has a new radio show thanks to Roben Farzad, previously a senior writer at Bloomberg Businessweek for nine years. Farzad moved from Manhattan to Richmond a few years ago and fell in love with the region. It didn’t take him long to begin making connections. From an active social media presence on Twitter to […]
Growing the Startup Ecosystem
Over the past few years, Greater Richmond’s startup community has grown by leaps and bounds. We are becoming a city driven by the ingenuity of its people. The very pages of this magazine are a testimony to the innovative and creative forces shaping our city. We are creating new products, building new technology, offering new […]
Palto Alto on the James
Gesticulating clusters of people gathered and dispersed, gathered and dispersed, moving from one group to another in the back room of Balliceaux on a Wednesday evening during the ruthless winter that never seemed to end. “Let me tell you why that won’t work,” said a woman buried deep in a coding conversation, her explanation interrupted […]
The Richmond Cycling Corps Story
Nonprofit organizations are essentially non-sustainable business models. The outreach/charitable cause is often approached and delivered as a commodity instead of a product. And most nonprofit organizations continue to operate in a disempowered manner—meaning they completely rely on the generosity of others (donations) to fulfill their missions. When I launched Richmond Cycling Corps as a nonprofit, […]
To All our Richmond Working Moms
As working moms, we shoulder a variety of pressures from different sources. And these pressures sometimes result in conflicting emotions that bring awareness to the logistical and emotional trials these roles can bring. It can be a hard road to go down, that is why working moms need to find something every day that can […]
Growing Entrepreneurship
When Claire Collins launched OtherWise Home, a full-service real estate solutions firm in RVA, she turned to Greater Richmond GATE for a boost. While Collins has an impressive track record in business, she knew that a refresher would give her startup the best chance of success in a competitive real estate investment market. Greater Richmond […]
Gather Here
“You can’t print at a coffee shop,” jokes Duke Dodson, one of the five owners of Gather, the new co-working space at 4th and Main Streets. “That’s what we’re hanging our hat on.” The 23,000-square-foot complex at 409 E. Main St., teeming on the edge of full-blown business incubator, opened this spring, and since then […]
The Region’s Best StartUps
To understand the significance of Tenant Turner being named the Region’s Next Best Start-Up at the i.e.* Start-Up Competition finale, you must first take yourself back to the 2008 housing crisis. Many homes were bought at the height of their value and quickly toppled alongside the housing bubble. To make up for lost ground, many […]
The Quest for the Cannonball
The coveted Cannonball in RVA has become a symbol of exceptional work to those in the advertising space. Each year the Richmond Ad Club doles out this local advertising award to agencies and individuals who are creative, inspiring, and passionate. And most of all, those who get results. Each year, the Richmond Ad Club uses the […]