Robert Hatcher’s passion for music led him to a new stage to perform: pitch competitions. The Georgia State MBA student is pursuing grad school while simultaneously building his startup, Soundcollide. “Entrepreneurship means creating your own lane, to either create value for yourself or to provide value for others,” shares Hatcher. The one-year-old Soundcollide, a collaborative […]
When you’re imagining an entrepreneur championing better technology for female contraception, recent Georgia Tech biomedical engineering grad Idicula Mathew might not immediately seem to fit the profile. But once you talk to Mathew, it’s clear why he’s focusing his medtech startup on improving female birth control — like any good entrepreneur, he found a pain point […]
It’s the first thing any aspiring startup founder is told: the odds of a new business succeeding are low. The failure rate of any U.S. company after five years is over 50 percent and over 70 percent after 10 years. A venture-backed tech startup sees even more disappointing statistics, with failure rates ranging from 75 to […]
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 […]
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 […]