FasterCapital, a virtual incubator based in Dubai, is looking for southeastern startups and has placed boots on the ground to do it. Former Silicon Valley startup catalyst and technology entrepreneur Arthur Stepanyan is serving as the startup program’s first Regional Partner in the southeast and will be based in Atlanta. Stepanyan joins 130 Regional Partners […]
About 1 in 10 businesses nationwide are veteran-owned — according to the Small Business Administration, veterans are 45 percent more likely to be self-employed than non-veterans. When first starting out, they often need to take advantage of their local startup communities to learn how to translate the skills they learned in the field or to grow […]
“Fall in love with your problem, not your product,” says José Mallabo, the newly-appointed Savannah-based startup catalyst for the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), the state of Georgia’s technology startup incubator. ATDC has used their Savannah location to test many of the incubator’s smaller city programs — including a 12-week Startup Bootcamp that focuses on […]
Startup life can be rough. You need to be on 24/7 to make your idea work and sometimes that means sleeping under your desk and skipping important networking events that may help you scale your business. John Whatley saw this issue happen over and over again while working at the Atlanta Tech Village. His solution? Founding DreamHouse, a […]
You’ve heard us talk about all the success stories that come out of Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) for the past 35+ years — the program’s over 170 graduates (Emrgy, GROUNDFLOOR, and Luma to name a few) have collectively raised more than $2 billion in capital. While we often hear about ATDC’s contribution to Atlanta, the top technology incubator also makes […]