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September 2020
Virtual: Freelance Business Blueprint – How to Make Money as a Freelancer
The Nashville Entrepreneur Center presents Austin L. Church - a freelance writer and brand consultant who has consistently earned six figures. His Freelance Business Blueprint distills 11 years’ worth of wins, insights, and avoidable mistakes into a clear step-by-step plan. Here’s what you will learn in this workshop: ◦ Which things help you quickly get traction as a freelancer (and which things seem urgent but are really distractions) ◦ How to package up your skills as valuable outcomes and pick…
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Virtual: Scalable and Cost-Effective Growth Marketing Strategies for Startups
In this 1-hour webinar, growth marketing expert Alyssa McCord will discuss easy-to-implement scalable and cost-effective growth marketing strategies to help your startup increase brand awareness and generate more leads. Alyssa McCord is a growth marketing expert who has been building scalable, high-growth customer acquisition and branding programs for startups and marketing agencies across the country for nearly a decade. She specializes in crafting marketing programs for early-age startups, as well as small businesses who have experienced plateaus in their growth.…
Find out more »Virtual: Nashville Entrepreneur Center Inflight Showcase
For the past 7 months, up-and-coming Nashville startups from our InFlight program have been working intensively with the EC team, advisors, and Nashville's community to scale their businesses and expand their impact. These teams represent a wide variety of industries and we're so excited to be able to support them. This impactful event is the culmination of their progress so far and is a chance for you to learn about their businesses and interact with the teams. Each team will…
Find out more »Virtual: Undergraduate Research Fair
The Wond’ry will be hosting a virtual get-together and information session during the Virtual Undergraduate Research Fair. Drop by to meet Wond’ry staff members, ask questions, and hear about the innovative stuff we do and help YOU do! Join the zoom meeting here.
Find out more »Virtual: Streamlined Financials for Startups
Want to skillfully manage your business? Want to learn just enough accounting to be successful? Want to avoid the mistakes that drive other startups out of business? One of the biggest stumbling blocks for first-time founders is getting a handle on the numbers. We don't need to become accountants—but we do need to learn how to plan, manage, and discuss our cash flow needs. This fun (yes fun), interactive session will cover: The best financial projection slide The 3 financial…
Find out more »Virtual: Innovation Open Mic
In collaboration with I-Corps South at Georgia Institute of Technology, the Wond’ry hosts a monthly Innovation Open Mic event, where aspiring innovators are invited to practice presenting their ideas and projects to a panel of entrepreneurial experts and mentors. Whether a business, non-profit, technology, or invention, all ideas are welcome. At the end of each event, presenters receive feedback from the mentor panel to help them improve their projects. This event is limited to presenters and mentors only. Presenters must…
Find out more »Virtual: Coffee Talk – On Being Black in Coffee
The Coffee Equity Lab is a new experiential learning and research lab housed in the Wond’ry’s Social Innovation Practice Area. The lab offers inspiring pathways for students to examine the pressing issues shaping our world–climate change, global trade, equity and justice–through the lens of the global coffee industry. Pilot programming for the Lab begins in the Fall 2020 semester with a lecture and workshop series in partnership with the Robert Penn Warren Center’s Scholarship of Everyday Life: Coffee series. Beginning September…
Find out more »Virtual: Pitch for Good – Music and Entertainment Edition
The Ryman, Grand Ole Opry, the Titans, the Preds, Music Row. Music and Entertainment is in the DNA of Nashville, and we want to highlight those that are creating the next wave of innovation in these worlds. On Thursday, October 22 from 12:00-1:00p the Nashville Entrepreneur Center is hosting a virtual elevator pitch competition for Music and Entertainment founders in Tennessee. We will be selecting 6 total entrepreneurs to conduct a 1-minute elevator pitch to a panel of judges and…
Find out more »Virtual: Project Music Showcase
For the past 6 months, eleven hand-picked startups from our Project Music program have been working intensively with the EC team, advisors, industry experts, and thought leaders. This event is the culmination of their progress so far and is a chance for you to learn about their businesses and interact with the teams. Register for the event here.
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