Venture Forum’s ‘Greater Richmond’s Companies to Watch’ Event to Feature Wall Street Journal CEO Council Member, Christopher Fey
The November Award Ceremony to Highlight Local Entrepreneurial Innovation
Creative Commerce: Downtown Design District
With events in November signaling the launch of the Shockoe Design District, Andy Thornton is confident that downtown Richmond is ready to realize its potential as a world-class center of production, consumption and innovation. “We’re a creative community. We have great schools, great artists and crafts people. We actually do make stuff here. Why don’t […]
Online App Clicks Into Community Knowledge & Experience
Tucked away, nestled between Richmond’s financial district, are cobblestone streets and alleyways that tell a story. The story of RVA-found in places like Shockoe Slip and Shockoe Bottom-is laced with many dips and turns. However, one thing is obvious-Richmond keeps moving forward. Always. Today the story of the Shockoe neighborhood, and Richmond at large, can […]
Local Business Forecast Offers Improvement Over Last Year’s Findings
Between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011, more than 560 business leaders weighed in, shared their story and shed some light on what the region’s economic future may hold.
Social Media Math: Factoring the Plus and Minus Aspects of Google+
There’s no getting around it, Richmond likes a new shiny toy. In recent months RVA has been abuzz about Google+. Hatched on June 28, 2011, many Richmonders began taking the nascent social network for a test drive on an invite-only basis. With demand quickly spiking, RVA wasted little time debating how G+ stacks up against […]
#DSRPT11
When Virgin Companies founder Sir Richard Branson rockets into RVA Downtown at The Richmond Convention Center on September 9th for the innovation extravaganza #DSRPT11 (Disrupt 2011) , attendees will not only have a chance to rub elbows with the polymathic business mogul and philanthropist, they will also have an opportunity to discover other national and […]
#DadChat: Richmond
People around RVA are always asking me, “If I’m a mobile worker and need to print something really important right away, but am miles from my home office, how in GRID’s name do I print?” Dadchat, bolstered by social media, has brought fathers from Greater Richmond together for brew, barbecue, and a little guidance. Hatched […]
Channel Surfing
By now you’ve seen them on a social platform or two-those snazzy little RVA stencils that folks are using to support our talented city by the river. Thanks to West Cary Group, founded in 2007 by Moses Foster, Blair Keeley and Camille Blanchard, we have the RVA Generator-a web app that allows Richmonders to upload […]
Making Media Mobile
It’s fitting that Studio 108 relocated to Manchester, Richmond’s creative frontier. While other media company’s might opt for strictly-business corridors around RVA, Studio 108 has taken its film and video production operations to the south bank of the James River, an up-and-coming arts district that has yet to undergo major urban rehabilitation. The decade-old production […]
Lead by Example: Branding RVA as a Creativity Hub
Greater Richmond Chamber Launches ‘i.e.’ Over the course of discussions with various community and business leaders—including Andy Stefanovich with Prophet, Richmond Times-Dispatch publisher Tom Silvestri, the Creative Change Center’s executive director Chrystal Wake, John Sarvay of Floricane and West Cary Group partner Moses Foster—the Chamber has set the groundwork to promote RVA’s creative community. The […]