Helping founders find community and connections
Atlanta Downtown’s “Retail Ready” Business Accelerator program is designed to empower product-based businesses to transition into storefront locations within Downtown Atlanta. Through a comprehensive curriculum and grant support, participants will gain the knowledge, resources, and connections necessary to successfully scale their operations, as they consider a brick-and-mortar presence in Downtown Atlanta.
Post-accelerator designed to help pre-seed AI startups progress toward their seed round by building social capital. Over 12 months, the program holds founders accountable for fundraising progress, facilitates high-value introductions, and supports their growth as leaders and individuals. Its focus is on guiding startups to achieve key business milestones and strengthen their appeal to investors during critical fundraising stages. Successfully raising capital propels each venture forward and grants access to the next level of support within Goodie Nation’s Seed Stage Program.
Learn more →An experiential learning program revolutionizing brand success in the retail industry. Unlike traditional incubators or accelerators, RRA offers targeted sprints designed to address key challenges for emerging Black brands entering retail. Led by notable entrepreneurs who have dominated the retail space, industry leaders, and national and global brands, RRA equips participants with essential skills, knowledge, and strategies for navigating the retail sector covering everything from understanding the retail environment and supply chain, to storytelling, funding and brand pitching.
Learn more →SURE (Start Up Retail Entrepreneurship) is a 12-week program, to help entrepreneurs accelerate the process of starting and growing a retail business by providing affordable retail-based training covering merchandising, inventory, product pricing, packaging, marketing, and more.
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