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Start:ME Accelerator Program Seeking Entrepreneurs for the 2021 Program, Offering Up to $30K in Grants to Small Businesses in Clarkston, East Lake Area, Southside Atlanta

Start:ME Accelerator Program seeking entrepreneurs for the 2021 program, offering up...

The Start:ME business accelerator program is currently recruiting promising entrepreneurs in and around Clarkston, East Lake, and Southside Atlanta for its 2021 programs. Fifteen...
The logistical challenge of food insecurity

The logistical challenge of food insecurity

Though coronavirus cases and unemployment numbers take center stage in pandemic impact discussions, since the onset of COVID-19 in our communities, “Hunger has become an even...
Heartfelt Giving: A Business Model to Emulate

Heartfelt giving to the community: a business model to emulate

In an unprecedented era of medical calamity, joblessness, and economic upheaval, Goizueta alumni have helped community members stay clean, well-rested, and fed. “We all...
Benjamin Kander 12BBA

Benjamin Kander: on surviving the first five years of the entrepreneurial...

For Welly Bottle, partnering with charity: water and building wells to provide clean water to villagers in Ethiopia and Malawi is more than just...
Resilience is the key for 2020 Start:ME graduates

Resilience is the key for 2020 Start:ME graduates

On a recent Wednesday, Teresa Abboud of Teresa Afternoon taught “My Art Time,” an art class via Zoom. There were a half dozen people...
Chellappa and Goebel are 2020 recipients of Goizueta’s highest service award

Chellappa and Goebel are 2020 recipients of Goizueta’s highest service award

Named for and endowed by former Coca-Cola President and COO Donald Keough, the Donald R. Keough Award for Excellence is Goizueta’s highest service award,...

Forty-Nine Atlanta area entrepreneurs complete Goizueta’s Start:ME Accelerator Program

ATLANTA, GA – (May 6, 2020) – Forty-nine promising entrepreneurs in the Clarkston, East Lake and Southside Atlanta communities have completed an extensive mentoring and business...
Goizueta Facebook Live Series: Resilience for entrepreneurs amidst COVID-19

Goizueta Facebook Live Series: Resilience for entrepreneurs amidst COVID-19

Resources and Links About our programs at Goizueta Business School: Entrepreneurship: entrepreneurship.emory.eduRAISE Forum: raiseforum.comSE@G (Social enterprise at Goizueta): goizueta.emory.edu/faculty/social-enterpriseStart:ME: startmeatl.orgCMC (Career Management Center) | For those...
Philanthropy Lab COVID-19 effort

Philanthropy in the time of COVID-19

How do you define and teach philanthropy to those who haven’t yet felt its impact? How do you show the inextricable ties that it has to...
The Neighborhood Sprouts

Start:ME microbusinesses display resilience during COVID-19 times

For companies with fewer than four employees, tapping into resources and creativity is key in turbulent times. COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on our global health...

Start:ME Accelerator Program selects 50 diverse Atlanta-based ventures for 2020

Representatives from 50 promising small businesses in Atlanta came together for the kick-off of the 2020 Start:ME Accelerator program, the Goizueta Business School’s free, intensive 14-session business training program for small business owners in East Lake, Clarkston and Southside Atlanta.