The Creative Coast

Wow! LIFTOFF was everything we hoped for and more. What an incredible evening spent celebration our LAUNCH Savannah entrepreneurs - the community truly showed up to support our local small businesses! Thank you so, so much to everyone who made this event happen. Thank you to the City of Savannah and the Small Business Assistance Corporation for partnering with us to make LAUNCH Savannah happen. Thank you to our LIFTOFF sponsors, especially our presenting sponsor, the Savannah Economic Development Authority Thank you to Ben Senger and the WSAV-TV team! Ben was a fantastic host, and we appreciate WSAV for bringing this event to a wider audience by streaming it live! Thank you to our gracious hosts, the Savannah Cultural Arts Center! We could not have asked for a better venue for LIFTOFF than the Ben Tucker Theater. Thank you to our special guest speaker, Mayor Van R. Johnson - your ongoing support for Savannah's small business ecosystem and your dedication to economic equity is truly appreciated. Shout out to our own Creative Coast team who worked behind the scenes to make this event happen! Thank you to all of our friends and partners who made this event as magical as it was: Ryan McCurdy, CEO of Kenetic Stages! ILANA LABOURENE of Sparklight Coaching! And Stacy Drayton, our timekeeping extraordinaire! And thank you to every member of the community who showed up to support these entrepreneurs. To each and every graduate of the inaugural LAUNCH Savannah cohort: CONGRATULATIONS. We are so incredibly proud of you and everything you have achieved, and we can't wait to see what you do next!

LIFTOFF is tomorrow! Be there. Get your tickets: https://loom.ly/MRFE7Ko City of Savannah Small Business Assistance Corporation Savannah Economic Development Authority

There are just two weeks until LIFTOFF! Have you gotten your tickets yet? We are so excited to celebrate the inaugural class of LAUNCH Savannah, and we hope that you will join us! This is going to be an awesome event that you don't want to miss. RSVP here: https://loom.ly/DW6AXj4

You are invited to LIFTOFF, a celebratory ceremony for the inaugural class of LAUNCH Savannah! LAUNCH Savannah is a 12-week intensive course for aspiring or newly established entrepreneurs, hosted by the City of Savannah, the Creative Coast, and the Small Business Assistance Corporation. We are very proud of everything that our inaugural class of innovators have achieved, and we are excited to celebrate them! During the LIFTOFF ceremony, the founders will pitch their businesses, and will also receive their scholarship packages of support services. Please join us at the Ben Tucker Theater at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center on October 8 at 5:30pm to celebrate these incredible small business owners! LIFTOFF is proudly presented by the Savannah Economic Development Authority. Get tickets here: https://lnkd.in/d3T8Cy2a

Last week we had a blast at the very first (but certainly not the last) Savannah Doers and Makers event! Our community has so many incredible people in it doing incredible things, and it was great to celebrate and learn from just a few of those people. Shout out to the real Savannah Somebodies, Cam Houser and Christian Swails for coming up with this great idea and making it happen.

Today! Each month, cSpot Savannah and The Creative Coast team up to bring Savannah's creative community an evening of no-pressure networking with peers, colleagues, and potential clients. Join us this evening, September 17 at 5:30pm, at Bar Bubbly! RSVP here: https://loom.ly/FO5u0sU

Today is a special day here in Savannah! We are so proud to be from the 912. Savannah is special, and today we want to celebrate all of our local change makers and innovators who are making our community a better place. #912Day

Last week, we brought some of our region's changemakers together for an inaugural Startup and Small Business Summit. We believe that our community is stronger when we all work together, and we're excited to see how these partnerships can help us toward the common goal of supporting small businesses and startups in the communities we serve. Shout out to Bert Brantley for hosting us at the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce, and to our guest speaker David Knuckolls for joining us from the Georgia Center for Innovation!

Today we want to highlight an awesome success story from LAUNCH Savannah! Andrea Flowers is one of our inaugural Launch Savannah founders. As a perk of the program, all founders were delivered a free one-year membership to the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce. Andrea dug through the benefits of membership and discovered that members have the opportunity for free advertising for their small businesses in our community. Here she is with her loving husband and family for the big reveal of her first (but not last) big time advertisement for Pamper and Play Kids Spa! We are so proud of you, Andrea!

Join us tomorrow, September 10, at Hop Atomica for TechTuesday at 5:30p! RSVP at https://loom.ly/RB088hI Thank you to our sponsor, InventureIT!