The mission of NEW is to make the Wilmington region a more nurturing community for local startup entrepreneurs to improve and diversify the regional economy.
NEW holds free monthly events for a wide variety of entrepreneurs, investors, professional service providers, community supporters, students, recent graduates, Military Veterans considering entrepreneurship, recently relocated professionals and job seekers. Attendees from the Wilmington region included New Hanover, Brunswick, Pender, Onslow and Craven Counties.
A strong entrepreneur support organization is focused on serving the needs of the entrepreneurs through educational events around sales and marketing, aligning mentor options, communications through curating a frequent newsletter and preparing the companies to attract capital with investor pitch training. Additional training is often required around the pursuit of local and federal grants.
Through NEW and previous work in the Wilmington region, founder Jim Roberts has helped entrepreneurs in a wide variety of industries from high tech mobile apps, software as a service (SAAS), medical devices, biotechnology, consumer products and more.
