According to the Society of Human Resource Management, the average cost to hire an employee is $4000, without the coast of an external recruiter. And, the cost of a bad hire costs, on average, 30% of an individual’s annual earnings. So, if you are paying someone $60K the real cost is $78K.

The goal of this workshop is to provide you with the necessary tools to decrease the risk of a bad hire into your organization in the most efficient manner.

The learning outcomes of this session are:

• The benefits to a consistent hiring process
• The ability to create a more consistent and efficient screening process
• Using assessments and behavioral interviewing techniques to uncover a candidates’ ability to be successful in your organization
• Assessing your top candidates to make a final decision

Registration

ATDC members can click here to register.

Most technology startups fail. Why? They start executing before they have a sound business model. What about you? Have you discovered a scalable and profitable business model yet?

Customer Discovery Lab is a Customer Discovery Bootcamp designed for entrepreneurs. Customer Discovery Lab uses a combination of teaching methodologies from Customer Discovery (get out of the building), Lean Startup (iterative loop of experimentation), Startup Engineering (disprove your assumptions) and the Business Model Canvas to uncover your compelling business model.

After this program, you will have identified the core of your business model – your customer segment and value proposition. Or you may discover there isn’t one. And that’s OK too. It’s better to find out now than after spending years and a fortune only to find out you were wrong.

How does it work?

1. Multi-week intensive program. You should commit to attend every week.
2. Each week, make assumptions about what needs to be true about your business model to succeed.
3. Design tests to disprove each assumptions.
4. Collect data and interpret the results.
5. Update your business model canvas based on what you have learned.
6. Present your findings to the teaching team and get thoroughly thrashed.
7. Repeat.

You will be expected to talk to at least 10 potential customers each week.

REGISTRATION LINKS

Both Customer Discovery Theory and Customer Discovery Tools are prerequisites to Customer Discovery Lab. Please take Customer Discovery Theory first which is offered the second and fourth Tuesday of every month. Once you begin Customer Discovery Lab, you are then expected to attend every subsequent Thursday until you graduate.

• Click here to register.

A talented and diverse group, ATDC Signature entrepreneurs are always willing to help their peers by sharing their first-hand experiences. The CEO Roundtables play an important part in the ATDC Signature experience and are often cited as one of the biggest benefits of being an ATDC Signature company.

Every week, ATDC Signature CEOs gather for peer-to-peer networking and peer learning. The ‘closed door’ roundtables are designed to enable ATDC entrepreneurs to discuss their business and technology challenges, successes, and failures.

This event is for ATDC Signature CEOs only and is not open to the public.

The Alpharetta Startup Circle is open to all ATDC members. It is an organized, freewheeling discussion among early stage entrepreneurs, ATDC Mentors, and Catalysts. Periodically, outside guests join us to bring their particular areas of expertise and experience to the table.

ATDC sponsor DLA Piper will host office hours in the lobby from 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm on the first Monday of every month. Click here to learn more about DLA Piper. https://www.dlapiper.com/en/us/locations/atlanta/

If you’d like to make an appointment with DLA Piper in advanced email ATDCofficehours@dlapiper.com