I have spent a while in various startups both as engineering contributor, an outside consultant, and as cofounder. I have been through startup accelerators1 and raised funding through SBIR grants in the past. Deployed hardware onsite at customers in manufacturing environments (notably the 777X wing box) and have developed multiple ground and aerial unmanned / uncrewed systems over the years. Before industry I spent some time in college fighting for funding and running an award winning robotics competition team and STEM outreach program2 impacting 80+ high schools throughout the south east united states3. Preceding college I was part of a webhosting start up in high school4. The goal of this repo is to act as a knowledge and resource dump for hardtech and as well as for those in ATL. As wells as cominbe info from two linktrees5 in to one location with additional context.
🏫 Online Course (free):
Venture Well Lean Launch Pad:
- https://venturewell.org/i-corps/llpvideos/ (the section titles are the links to videos)
📖 Books (list from the I-Corps Program I went through):
- Business Model Generation - ISBN: 978-0470876411
- Value Proposition Design - ISBN: 978-1118968055
- Talking to Humans - ISBN: 978-0990800927
- The Startup Owners Manual - ISBN: 978-1119690689
- Disciplined Entrepreneurship - ISBN: 978-1394222513
- Competing Against Luck - ISBN: 978-0062435613
Footnotes
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National Science Foundation I-Corps & Boomtown/Comcast The Farm ↩
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The team participated in RoboCup Small Size, Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition, BattleBots and on the outreach, front was involved in FIRST Robotics with both FRC and FTC. ↩
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The yearly game kickoff event was in some way its own startup evolving each year in programming scope, attendance, and funding needs to better support schools. ↩
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The company still exists, but eventually pivoted away from hosting websites to providing IT / website dev services. ↩
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The two linktrees are atl.startup and startup.resources. ↩