Listen to Jonathan Cornelius (B.S. ’20) of Meet & Innovate on Business RadioX at GSU. Meet & Innovate, is a diversity-focused recruitment platform that leverages technology to place diverse job seekers in their dream internship and full-time job opportunities. Listen in.
After Georgia State’s Main Street Entrepreneurs Seed Fund and Georgia Tech’s Create-X, the KemNu team is tackling student engagement on campus and online. Read more.
Twitch has partnered with Cxmmunity and is launching the second season of their HBCU Esports League to promote esports programs. Learn more.
After meeting at Georgia State, Lance (MBA ’03) and April (B.A. ’01) Ledbetter embarked on a lifelong journey together. As husband and wife and co-founders of Dust-to-Digital, a Grammy Award-winning record label mining music’s past to preserve it for future audiences. Read more.
Robert Hatcher (B.A. ’17, MBA ’20) conceived the idea for his company while in an entrepreneurship class as an undergrad here at Georgia State. An amateur musician and songwriter, his idea was to create a virtual music studio using blockchain technology — a kind of electronic ledger and the premise behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin — to track a song’s development from start to finish. Learn more.
The Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative (WEI) received a generous donation from the Atlanta Hawks Foundation to present a series of workshops, a pitch competition and grants for women entrepreneurs in the City of Atlanta. Business were divided into two groups one representing the Greater Atlanta Community and the second for their current cohort. Learn more.
The Entrepreneurship and innovation Institute (ENI) of Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business has received the Excellence in Student Engagement in Entrepreneurship Award at the 10th annual Deshpande Symposium for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education. The award recognizes an institution that encourages student leadership and engagement and supports the development of entrepreneurial awareness, skills and practice. Read more.
The ICSB Global Awards in Entrepreneurship Education Excellence were created to recognize excellence in entrepreneurship education at the programmatic level. Recently, the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute (ENI) faculty member, Dr. Isabelle Monlouis was named one of five finalists for this prestigious award on behalf of WomenLead in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Georgia State University’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute (ENI) has announced follow-on funding for select Main Street Entrepreneurs Seed Fund (MSESF) alumni companies. Seven companies from Main Street’s inaugural cohort (Cohort 1), which graduated from the business accelerator program in 2020, will be receiving an additional grant to use in scaling their ventures. Read more…
The internet has the power to connect people all over the world, but it can also manipulate and change a digital creator’s work with little to no consequence. GSU/CMII’s Elizabeth Strickler recently spoke at TEDxAtlanta, explaining the power of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for digital artists and the future of digital art and media. Read more.
