A Great Start

We had a great start yesterday during the first meeting of the '7515 Entrepreneurs Lounge'.  9 very motivated people showed up and we even had a few from outside class. 

For those of you who could not attend, or are not sure about attending, please keep following this blog as we will be posting updates and information here; you will surprised of the talent and opportunities that will converge to the group.

Some of the things we discussed:

• Each one of us shared our background, interest in entrepreneurship, and what kind of help we can offer.   (We have background in many different areas: libraries / business research, IT, sales, marketing, engineering, HR, consulting, etc.)
  
  
• Everyone is invited to post their profiles in this blog so we all can have access to them any time.  
  
  
• We will be leveraging this blog as a communication and divulgation tool for the group, as well as posting articles, references, links, etc.  All of us are invited to write our own pieces to publish here.  Some people didn't take the class and want some guidance and reference material. 
  
  
• Most of us are interested in start-ups with a wide range of time frames (from a few months to undefined).  There was much more interest in bootstrapping than in obtaining capital via VCs or Angel investors.
  
  
• Good news: Professor Christopher Hanks, the Director of the Entrepreneurship Program at UGA's Terry College of Business, has offered his support to this initiative and we are very glad to have him involved with the 7515 Entrepreneurs Lounge.  We will be working with him in formalizing a collaboration approach.
  
  
• We proposed meeting every second Saturday of the month, from 10:00am to 12:00n.
  
  
• We still have to organize the structure of our meetings, find a few officers that will act as moderators, note takers, etc. and clearly define the purpose of the meetings. This is still an open item.
  
  
• While a major meeting is planned for every month, it is encouraged to form smaller groups that meet more often to discuss and work on your interests.  You are encouraged to form your Gang of 5.
  
  
• We want to extend an invitation to other UGA students to join this group, including undergrads, the Buckhead team and all Gwinnett.
  
  
• Non-UGA students and friends are also welcome to join.
  
  
• We will be creating a survey to learn more about the interests of the group.

Action items:

• Send me your blogger account so I can add you as an author.
  
• Create your profile with the information you want to share with others (i.e. background, interests, etc.)
• Register to this blog as follower so you get notifications with the updates.
• Write your first post about entrepreneurship.  Any topic is welcome.
• Post your suggestions about how to better organize our monthly meetings.

Post your comments anytime.

Next meeting is Saturday, December 13, 2008.   Location TBD.

See you soon.

- AG