According to Certified Financial Planner Jacqueline Schadeck, one should start a business using their own money, as this builds financial literacy and discipline. Then, when one starts to move towards growing and scaling their business, they can use money from investors or personal loans. Read more.
Gaining customers for your business is a hands-on process that begins with developing customer personas by defining your primary customers and what they like. This formative work will lend “insight into their buying patterns to serve them better.” Read to learn more.
A.T. Gimbel noted that one of the major mistakes entrepreneurs make is building a product too soon in the process of developing a startup. Identifying a problem other people are already trying to solve is step one. There must be an “authentic demand” and a growing niche market. Read blog to learn more.
Georgia State’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute (ENI) just launched applications for its 3rd annual
Main Street Entrepreneurs Seed Fund (MSESF) and accepting applications through January 31, 2022. Read more.
A serial entrepreneur who readily embraces change, Ellen Softness has owned and operated both service & product businesses, bricks & […]
An entrepreneur at heart with a forte for seeing what lies ahead for his businesses, and adapting to these changes, […]
StartupGSU, a unique organization at the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute, is a student-managed venture capital fund that awards sponsored, capital grants to Georgia State University undergraduate students who seek to launch or scale their ventures. Read to learn more.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute (ENI) partnered with Zane Venture Fund to host the first-ever Entrepreneurship SummitGSU and third annual Main Street Entrepreneurs Seed Fund (MSESF) Demo Day. Read all about the two-day event.
This year’s TiE Atlanta competition, held at the GSU Buckhead Campus was split into two sections: a qualifying round and a final round. Out of the 22 businesses competing, three Georgia State students pitched their businesses in the qualifying round. Read all about it.
Eater Atlanta Magazine’s list of essential coffee shops is out and guess who made the list? Buzz Coffee and Winehouse is a Main Street Entrepreneurs Seed Fund company from cohort 2 with Tremayne Perry, founder/owner at the helm. This community focused establishment serves coffee, pastries and cocktails, later in the day. Read more.
