Welcome to the START Atlanta website where our goal is to connect the entrepreneurs and investors of Atlanta (and surrounding communities) with the collective wisdom of the “cloud.”

For some of the entrepreneurs, we hope to link you with your peers so you can learn from their mistakes and not FAIL at some of the really basic stuff that many others have already done. For the startups that are a bit further along, we would love for you to skool us if you have wisdom you’d like to share or give back to the community.

For the investors, our goal is to help connect you to hot startups, tell you why they matter and hopefully make long term connections in the local community that will be beneficial to all parties involved. While your financial contributions are always appreciated, we also value your time, your experience and your network. Above all else we are just looking to include more of you in this community and are looking for more involvement to help propel startups in the area.

If you’re interested in sponsoring START Atlanta, please don’t hesitate to contact us. Feedback is always appreciated as we move forward to foster, promote and grow the Atlanta Startup Community.

Registration is required so we can know how many people to expect and plan for. We are also limiting the number of people to 50 at the max. We are wanting to see an equal number of entrepreneurs and investors so we can have a meaningful conversation with out it being one sided. We also want everyone to try to make it to Fridays launch event for START Atlanta because that is when we will have the break out sessions for product development. The break out sessions are where we will spilt the group into investors and entrepreneurs and have each side describe what products they will need, and want for START Atlanta to be functional for them. This will ensure we are building something for the community which will help to foster a better community. So if you are thinking you can’t make it to the whole weekend that is fine, just be sure to make it to Friday night’s event.

START Atlanta Kick-Off Agenda

Date: September 19-21

Friday:

· 6:30pm: Networking

· 7:00pm: Keynote Introduction of START Atlanta and kick off

· Give an overview of the vision and value proposition

· Munchies and refreshments will be provided by Angus McRae & Peak 10

· 7:15pm: Break Outs

· Entrepreneurs (discuss need and functions)

· Investors (discuss need and functions)

· 9pm: Break outs return and present needs assessment to entire group.

· 9:30pm: Open Discussion regarding functions of START Atlanta

· 10:30pm: Select group will meet to begin to design wireframe

Saturday:

· 9 am: Work starts. Munchies and Coffee will be provided by Angus McRae & Peak 10

· 9 am: Business Development – Creating business plan, goals and objectives for year 1

· 9:30 am: Start the process of creating user flows.

· 12 pm: Lunch.

· 1 pm: Coding

· 4 pm: status meeting

· 6 pm: Coding, Coding and Coding

· 9 pm: Close up at the office and a group get-together for drinks and to talk about the products everyone is working on (location TBD).

Sunday

· 9am: Work Starts. Breakfast and coffee will be provided by Angus McRae & Peak 10

· 9:30 am: Quick review of goals and deadlines

· 12pm: Alpha Testing

· 3 pm status meeting

· 6pm: Sink or Swim for Weekend launch

· 9pm: Close of weekend

Its kinda of like a startup commune, kinda.