After two months and six full days of course work another FastTrac® TechVenture™ course concluded for the spring of 2014. There were 27 budding entrepreneurs from Emory, Georgia Tech, Morehouse School of Medicine, and University of Georgia who participated, as well as participants from a number of companies. The course taught researchers and aspiring entrepreneurs about the nuts and bolts of running a new business, in order to begin a start-up and prepare them to work with business leaders and investors.
The group heard from three presidents/CEOs, one VP/COO, an executive recruiter, a patent attorney, two consultants, and two venture capitalists. Donovan Moxey, the co-founder of a 3D animation software company, led weekly class discussions.
Congratulations to our Graduates: Samuel Anyanwu, Brandon Aylward, Pamela Bhatti, Arnab Chakraborty, M. Wayne Craige, Dario Dilernia, Ronit Erlitzki, Leandro Gryngarten, Christine Hang, Theo Harvey, Jorge L. Juncos, Karim Khan, Sandeep Kumar, Kemba Lee, Matthew Lindale, Ichiro Matsumura, Gale Newman, Zhaohui Qin Qin, Arshed Quyyumi, Onix Ramirez, Kamalesh Ruppa, Habib Samady, Charles Slamowitz, Jack Tillman, Angela Wingers, Yajun Yan, and Ming Zhou.
Thank you to our speakers and mentors for volunteering your time! Speakers: Barry Brager, Tom Callaway, Charlie Deignan, Christopher Doering, Sherry Knowles, Russ Medford, Richard diMonda, Timothy Patrick, Ed Schutter, Stephen Snowdy, H. Trent Spencer, Daniel White, and David Wynes.
Also thank you to our Co-sponsors: University of Georgia’s Small Business Development Center, Kauffman Foundation, Atlanta’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and SBA.gov (Small Business Administration).
Check out our new video on the Kauffman series here.