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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

Come and learn what ATDC is all about! At this info session you will learn more about ATDC  membership and qualifications, find out about member benefits, and how to make the most of your membership.

REGISTRATION LINKS

• Click here to preregister.

This four-part workshop teaches founders the essentials for a thorough understanding of their business models. We will discuss terminology that investors, banks, accountants expect you to know, understand and use, as well as the details and underlying assumptions of financial models. We will also dive into your individual business’ financial model for specific advice.

Part 1 – Finance 101

Part 2 – The Financial Model

Part 3 – Work Session w/ Mentors

Part 4 – Financial Model Review w/ Mentors

Registration Links

You MUST have attended Customer Discovery to participate in this workshop, and only those who have completed the Customer Discovery Badge and Buyer Journey will be eligible to continue to Parts III and IV.

Click here to register for Part 1: Finance 101. You must attend Part 1 to attend subsequent classes.

Join your fellow ATDC Accelerate founders and CEOs together with members of the ATDC team for a virtual and interactive discussion.

Registration

• Accelerate CEOs can click here to preregister.

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.

The Innovation in Supply Chain event will highlight the impact on a company’s complex value chains in the current global environment, its preparedness, and potential blind spots. Our panelists will include:

About Paul Noble, Founder & CEO of Verusen

Paul brings over 15 years of experience working to optimize complex supply chains across manufacturing, transportation and various verticals. He personally experienced the problems that lack of visibility poor data quality had in allowing global enterprises to effectively mange their inventory and supply base, which lead him to found the company and build a team and solution to solve these issues using Artificial Intelligence. Today, Verusen helps these organizations harmonize and control their material data and predict inventory across global supply chains.

About Sudeep Suman, Director of AlixPartners

Sudeep is an accomplished strategy, operation, and transaction leader with more than 20+ years of consulting experience specializing in supply chain, sourcing, organization design, customer & product profitability, transformation, restructuring, divestiture, and M&A.

Sudeep is a Sr. Director at AlixPartners, a New York based leading consulting firm that has  global offices with several thousand professionals across all major continents. In past , Sudeep has worked at Ernst & Young (EY) and also served as principal at a Atlanta based supply chain company Manhattan Associates.

He has published number of articles, white papers and thought leaderships in supply chain planning, procurement and sourcing, manufacturing/value chain, inventory optimization, logistics & distribution, and fulfillment.

Sudeep holds an Executive degree from Harvard Business School,  a Master in Business Administration from Emory University, and a Bachelor in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, India

About Corbett Gilliam, Corporate Development Manager at ATDC

Corbett is a visionary leader with expertise in business operations, digital/social strategy execution, brand strategy, and content marketing. He has a proven track record of achieving exceptional results within the FinTech, mobile, livestreaming, and SaaS sectors. Corbett has a history of transforming a companies core business model and marketing strategy to achieve objectives in revenue growth and profitability.

Corbett is a graduate of the University of Georgia where he obtained a bachelor’s degree economics. He also earned his master’s degree in business administration from Mercer University’s Stetson School of Business and Economics.

Registration Link

• Click here to preregister. 

Most concept-stage startups fail because they focus more on how to deliver a product than on the needs of people buying it. This course provides a concentrated overview of the Customer Development Process, Business Model Canvas and Minimal Viable Product. By understanding customers, startups reduce the risk of failure. This class is the first in the Customer Discovery Badge Program, and it should be followed with Customer Discovery Tools.

You are welcome to bring your own lunch.

REGISTRATION LINK

This course is a prerequisite for Customer Discovery Tools and Customer Discovery Lab. You are only required to take it once.

• Click here to register.

Join Miller & Martin for office hours on the second Tuesday of every month from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm.

Does your startup have physical products in its vision? Does it face the ‘build it’ challenge? Does it need to build prototypes? Products? Does it need to build manufacturing processes? Does it need support or access to big ticket tooling and facilities in order to build? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then the Product Circle may be for you. Come and participate in this discussion among peers, whether your product is in the idea stage or has already entered the market. This circle is also an excellent entry point to learn about the myriad of lab facilities available at Georgia Tech for use by startups.

Registration link

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Join us virtually on March 9th as Glenn Hilburn, VP of Information Technology at Grady Health System, and Cedric Truss, Director Health Informatics Program at Georgia State University discuss the post-Covid role of digital health and telemedicine platforms in helping providers deliver care. Moderated by Dr. Berkley Baker.

About Glenn Hilburn

As Vice President of Information Services, Glenn Hilburn brings a unique set of skills to the ever-more important integration of information technology and patient care. Glenn has practiced as a critical care registered nurse, an informaticist and served in leadership roles for several healthcare software development firms. With his strong knowledge of clinical processes, systems development, and informatics, Glenn brings a unique perspective to the use of technology to enhance patient safety, improve care quality, and drive clinical innovation.

Under Glenn’s leadership, Grady achieved the prestigious Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) and was recognized as Most Wired for the past nine consecutive years.

Glenn holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing, a Bachelor of Business Administration, a Master of Business Administration, and is a Certified Healthcare Chief Information Officer (CHCIO). He is a Certified Professional in Health Information Management Systems (CPHIMS), a 2020 America’s Essential Hospitals Fellow, and a member of the Board of Directors for Georgia HIMSS.

About Dr. Cedric Truss

Dr. Cedric Truss possesses more than 15 years of healthcare and public health experience, including over seven years in higher education and administration. His expertise includes health care organizations, telemedicine/telehealth, ransomware, and health information technology. He currently serves as the Director of Health Informatics Programs and Clinical Assistant Professor at Georgia State University (GSU) in the College of Nursing and Health Professions.

Dr. Truss is an active member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the American Public Health Association (APHA). His academic background includes obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Human Environmental Sciences, a Master of Science in Health Informatics, and a Doctorate in Health Administration with a concentration in Information Systems. Beyond formal education, Dr. Truss is also a Certified Professional in Health Information Management Systems (CPHIMS).

Click here to register on Eventbrite.

This four-part workshop teaches founders the essentials for a thorough understanding of their business models. We will discuss terminology that investors, banks, accountants expect you to know, understand and use, as well as the details and underlying assumptions of financial models. We will also dive into your individual business’ financial model for specific advice.

Part 1 – Finance 101

Part 2 – The Financial Model

Part 3 – Work Session w/ Mentors

Part 4 – Financial Model Review w/ Mentors

Registration Links

You MUST have attended Customer Discovery to participate in this workshop, and only those who have completed the Customer Discovery Badge and Buyer Journey will be eligible to continue to Parts III and IV.

Click here to register for Part 1: Finance 101. You must attend Part 1 to attend subsequent classes.

Join your fellow ATDC Accelerate founders and CEOs together with members of the ATDC team for a virtual and interactive discussion.

Registration

• Accelerate CEOs can click here to preregister.

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.

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.

Registration 

• Get in touch with the team at Tech Alpharetta to get signed up. 

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.

This is a follow-on class from Customer Discovery Theory.  The purpose of this class is to work with the entrepreneurs to make sure they are ready to move forward with the discovery process – actually interviewing potential customers. We will review the entrepreneurs’ business hypothesis, initial set of interview questions, and tools to help build a persona of potential customers.

REGISTRATION LINKS FOR UPCOMING CUSTOMER DISCOVERY CLASSES

Customer Discovery Theory is a prerequisite for this class.

This meeting will be online only. 

• Click here to preregister.

This four-part workshop teaches founders the essentials for a thorough understanding of their business models. We will discuss terminology that investors, banks, accountants expect you to know, understand and use, as well as the details and underlying assumptions of financial models. We will also dive into your individual business’ financial model for specific advice.

Part 1 – Finance 101

Part 2 – The Financial Model

Part 3 – Work Session w/ Mentors

Part 4 – Financial Model Review w/ Mentors

Registration Links

You MUST have attended Customer Discovery to participate in this workshop, and only those who have completed the Customer Discovery Badge and Buyer Journey will be eligible to continue to Parts III and IV.

Click here to register for Part 1: Finance 101. You must attend Part 1 to attend subsequent classes.

Join your fellow ATDC Accelerate founders and CEOs together with members of the ATDC team for a virtual and interactive discussion.

Registration

• Accelerate CEOs can click here to preregister.

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.

Entrepreneurs’ Night is an integral part of the ATDC experience. Every month all ATDC members are invited to gather together at this fun, informal event. Join us for some of the best networking for Georgia’s technology startup entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs’ Night takes place the third Thursday of every month from 5 pm to 6 pm.

REGISTRATION LINKS

• Click here to register.

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.

Registration 

• Get in touch with the team at Tech Alpharetta to get signed up. 

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.

As sponsors of the ATDC,  Morris, Manning & Martin (MMM) is hosting a Fund of the Month Series in 2021 whereby select funds will be invited to do a fireside chat. It will give ATDC’s startups an opportunity to speak with capital sources from across the country, and it will give the fund chance to market itself to the ATDC’s startups.

In March, we will be speaking with Ricky Pelletier of OpenView Venture Partners. At OpenView, Ricky focuses on identifying and analyzing investment opportunities into application software companies. Ricky has invested in companies such as Deputy, Project44, Loopio, VTS, Lessonly, Auvik and others. Prior to joining OpenView, Ricky was an investor at Symmetric Capital, a growth-focused private equity firm investing across industries. He previously worked at Landmark Partners, an investment firm centered on acquiring secondary interests in venture capital and private equity funds.

About Morris, Manning & Martin

Morris, Manning & Martin (www.mmmlaw.com) is an Atlanta-based national law firm delivering value-added legal services to fast-growing technology and tech-enabled businesses throughout the company lifecycle. MMM’s Corporate Tech Group has closed hundreds of VC, private equity and M&A deals. In addition to corporate finance, MMM’s practice areas include technology agreements, patent/IP, employment, international, IoT, open source, blockchain and dispute resolution. Through MMMs expansive network, the firm helps companies grow by connecting tech clients with sources of capital, management talent, key advisors, strategic partners and other experienced entrepreneurs.

Register for this event here.

Join your fellow ATDC Accelerate founders and CEOs together with members of the ATDC team for a virtual and interactive discussion.

Registration

• Accelerate CEOs can click here to preregister.

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.

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.

Registration 

• Get in touch with the team at Tech Alpharetta to get signed up. 

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.

Join your fellow ATDC Accelerate founders and CEOs together with members of the ATDC team for a virtual and interactive discussion.

Registration

• Accelerate CEOs can click here to preregister.