Chef Andrew Bantug knows the struggles of a small business. His Filipino pop-up style restaurant, held last year, had all the the hustle, demand and finance-crunching stresses of startup life. Now, he sees that same challenge echoed in technology as he makes the transition into programming through General Assembly‘s Web Development Immersive program. “I’m someone who loves […]
Jon Atkinson‘s commitment to fostering innovation and talent in New Orleans is fully ingrained in the career he’s built in Louisiana. As the former director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Loyola University, he was charged with creating programs to support students following an entrepreneurship path. “I got to build a lot from a blank […]
Aylin DeBruyne‘s itch for adventure has taken her to the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail, Spain’s Camino de Santiago, Turkey and New Zealand to conquer some impressive long-distance hiking challenges. Upon returning from her work sabbatical, she knew she wanted to share her newly-acquired hiking knowledge with others. “These wilderness episodes have inspired me […]
Just shortly after graduating from Georgia State with his Bachelor’s in Economics, Nathan Foster found himself facing many entrepreneurs’ toughest question: What’s my exit strategy? As the founder of tech-enabled gardening kit startup Enrich Gardening, Foster incubated his startup from seed stage — quite literally — at his school’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute. “That’s where a lot […]
Thanks to her computer-savvy mother, Beth D’Amato grew up surrounded by technology, from playing Pong on a Tandy TRS-80 computer to watching her mom earn her associate’s degree in computing. After taking a slight detour into acting, earning her degree in theatre, D’Amato joined the corporate ladder as an executive assistant while she looked for acting gigs. […]