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Education & Career Resources

Whether you're still a student or looking to gain new skills for a career shift, the ecosystem is here for you. Discover what university and non-traditional resources are available within the community.
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Job Boards

ATDC Job Board

This is a job board that features full time, part time, and internship opportunities from ATDC Accelerate and Signature Level companies.

Job Boards

Angel List

See Atlanta startup jobs. Apply privately. Get salary, equity and funding info upfront.

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Atlanta Inno Career Directory

Careers Directory. Browse for job openings in your local ecosystem.

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Atlanta Tech Village Job Board

Want to work at a startup? Check out all the openings from startups that call the Village home!

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Choose ATL

Whether you're interested in Atlanta’s thriving corporate or startup scene, the right fit for you is just one search away. “Clock In” with ChooseATL free job search tool.

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Hypepotamus Job Board

From Intern to CTO, submit your opening for free!

Training

Atlanta Tech Viillage Startup Summer School

Have an idea? Do you crave to build something? Join us, each Wednesday this summer, for a semester of Virtual Startup Summer School. Learn from the best in the industry about what it looks like to start your own company and how to do it well.

Training

Big Nerd Ranch Training

Our instructors and consultants are authors who have been writing programming guides since 2001. We've helped hundreds of thousands of programmers get on their way.

Training

Black Men Code

Black Men Code is a fiscally sponsored, non-profit, social benefit organization. Their mission is to provide free and low-cost training in computer programming that inspires and motivates Black men to: (1) pursue education in STEM fields and (2) participate in the innovation economy through entrepreneurship.

Training

Codehouse

This initiative will support incoming freshmen attending the Atlanta University Center with scholarships, mentorship, and leadership skill-building.

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Digital Crafts

DigitalCrafts is a top-rated coding bootcamp with campuses in Atlanta, GA and Houston, TX.

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General Assembly

General Assembly offers full-time courses, part-time courses, and workshops in coding, data science, design, digital marketing, and product management.

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Georgia Tech Bootcamp

Learn front end and back end web development technologies in a collaborative setting. A program that fits around your schedule with evening and weekend sessions.

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North Atlanta Venture Mentoring Service (VMS)

The North Atlanta Venture Mentoring Service (NAV) is principled and trained by MIT Venture Mentoring Service and is the first of its kind in Georgia. NAV, a pilot program led by the Cherokee Office of Economic Development, is accepting applications for ventures with a working concept and beyond who want to take their business to the next level through team-based mentorship.

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OHUB Futures

OHUB’s education and training products provide would be technologists and entrepreneurs with the knowledge and expertise they’ll require to upskill and navigate the innovation economy – past, present & future.

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SBA Learning Center

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) continues to help small business owners and entrepreneurs pursue the American dream. The SBA is the only cabinet-level federal agency fully dedicated to small business and provides counseling, capital, and contracting expertise as the nation’s only go-to resource and voice for small businesses.

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SCORE

SCORE Atlanta is a non-profit resource partner of the Small Business Administration. We're small business experts and have been helping people fulfill their dreams since 1964.

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School for Startups

The School for Startups helps aspiring and experienced entrepreneurs build a business using our low risk framework. Whether you just have an idea and don't know where to start, are ready to sell your business or anything in between, we provide classes, coaching, events, and community to help you make the most of your entrepreneurial journey.

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Small Business Development Center (SBDC)

The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) provides tools, training and resources to help small businesses grow and succeed.

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Tech Talent South

Tech Talent South is a southern-based tech education company that offers programs ranging from 8-week, full-time code immersion bootcamps to 2-day data analysis workshops.

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Thinkful

Thinkful is supporting this growth by bridging the gap to create new opportunities and build a talented workforce. Thinkful is the only bootcamp-style program in Atlanta with a Tuition Guarantee.

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Women's Entrepreneurial Opportunity Project, Inc.

WEOP, founded in 1999 is dedicated to the mission of promoting the economic advancement of minority women with innovative programming and model projects that connects women to new opportunities for business expansion and career growth globally.

Training

Youth Entrepreneurs Academy

At Youth Entrepreneurs, our goal is to equip young people with the values and vision to pursue their dreams. If you're an educator, student or alumnus looking for resources and opportunities to take those dreams and make them a reality, you're in the right place.

University Programs

Atlanta Minority Business Development at Georgia Tech

The Atlanta MBDA helps established Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) access capital, build capacity, create jobs, and more.

University Programs

Atlanta Technical College Center for Workforce Innovation

Atlanta Technical College is a public technical college in Atlanta, Georgia. It is part of the Technical College System of Georgia and provides education services for Fulton and Clayton counties.

University Programs

CDL-Atlanta

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies. CDL-Atlanta is located at Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business and at the epicenter of commerce and innovation in the southeast.

University Programs

CREATE-X

CREATE-X is an initiative designed to build entrepreneurial confidence among students at Georgia Tech. Startups going through CREATE-X programs have raised outside capital, executed successful crowdfunding campaigns, and secured large corporate clients.

University Programs

Clark Atlanta University Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurial Development

At the CIED we take students through the lean startup and Business Model Canvas methodology to develop their business ideas. We Coach students through the start-up process and then provide qualifying students the opportunity to pitch their business idea before investors during our hackathon and business pitch competitions.

University Programs

E-House at Georgia State University

The Entrepreneurship House (E-House) Living Learning Community provides students at Georgia State University with entrepreneurial ambitions the chance to live, learn, and connect with others who share similar interests and aspirations. E-House is located in the University Commons housing complex.

University Programs

Emory Entrepreneur & Venture Management

Emory Entrepreneurship & Venture Management is Emory's first campus-wide organization that directly promotes an entrepreneurial atmosphere on campus. EEVM was founded in May 2013 and since then, has become the fastest growing organization at Emory by hosting events like Startup Crunch, Innovation Series, and hackATL.

University Programs

Emory Startup Launch Accelerator

The Emory Startup Launch accelerator program is offered once a year to guide early stage founders in the Emory community through a defined process that helps teams rapidly take their ideas and test them with customers to discard, change and build a business model to move the startup forward.

University Programs

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute (ENI) of Georgia State University Robinson College of Business fulfills a university-wide mandate to strengthen the entrepreneurial and innovation culture across campus. ENI aims to be a national model for inclusive entrepreneurial education and innovation. Its activities span academics, co-curricular activities, and community and industry partnerships.

University Programs

Georgia Tech's VentureLab

Georgia Tech VentureLab was founded in 2001 to collaborate with faculty and students to create startups based on Georgia Tech research. In partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF), VentureLab also hosts accelerators for community teams in Atlanta. Since 2001, VentureLab has supported the launch of hundreds of startups which, combined, have raised over $3B in investments.

University Programs

HBCU.VC

HBCUvc’s mission is to direct how capital is formed and distributed to increase opportunities for Black, Indigenous and Latinx innovators. They accomplish this by developing, connecting and mobilizing the next generation of venture capital leaders in communities where entrepreneurs face barriers in accessing capital, and by empowering solutions to employ race-conscious investing practices.

University Programs

Kennesaw State University (KSU) Innovation Sandbox

The KSU Innovation Sandbox provides infrastructure and expertise to support your team as they generate creative and effective solutions to challenges and opportunities. The Sandbox applies proven creative problem solving methods used in higher education institutions like Stanford University,

University Programs

LaunchGSU at Georgia State University

LaunchGSU is an incubator open to all students at Georgia State looking to hustle and build something from the ground up. Students are encouraged to connect, collaborate and create through learning and mentorship opportunities for ideation, validation and rapid prototyping.

University Programs

Morehouse College Enterpreneurship Center (MECE)

The Morehouse College Entrepreneurship Center is a global model for higher education and industry collaborations, programs that connect education with student leadership development, and community-focused resources and support.

University Programs

OHUBxCampus

OHUB@CAMPUS is a branded platform to provide colleges and universities and their respective administrators, faculty and students with the exposure, knowledge, opportunities, connections and tools to effective launch a technology and startup ecosystem from the ground up, thereby connecting them to the global innovation, entrepreneurship and investment economy.

University Programs

Oglethorpe University Entrepreneur Program

The Entrepreneurship Program at Oglethorpe University delivers entrepreneur education and ideation support to all students. Our goal is helping students develop the wide range of business skills to successfully develop and launch small businesses.

University Programs

Opportunity Hub (OHUB)

Opportunity HUB is an entrepreneurial center that offers multi-campus co-working spaces, intense entrepreneurship, investment and code school curriculum and programming, masterminds; it is a pre-accelerator and incubator.

University Programs

Roberto C. Goizueta CEI (Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation)

The intention of the Center is to foster both entrepreneurship and innovation for the Goizueta community born of critical inquiry, developed to serve fundamental societal needs, executed according to sound business principles, and conceptualized in ways that open possibilities and spark imagination.

University Programs

Shore Entrepreneurship Center

At the Robin and Doug Shore Entrepreneurship Center in the Coles College of Business, they pride themselves on training students and entrepreneurs who desire to better themselves, others, and society. They achieve this by bringing together the “best of the best” in entrepreneurship and providing transformational programs and experiences to their community.

University Programs

Spelman College Center for Innovation & the Arts

The Innovation Lab is a campus-wide resource for creative inquiry, unconventional research, experimental pedagogy, and exploratory play. The lab is a makerspace that engages the intersections of art, science, technology, and engineering. Available tools include 3D printers, laser cutters, 4-axis CNC router, 3D scanner along with many other conventional hand tools and power tools that make prototyping of just about anything possible in one space.

University Programs

Startup Exchange

Startup Exchange is the largest student entrepreneurial community at Georgia Tech. They support and inspire our students to create and develop their ventures. They promote entrepreneurship education at Georgia Tech by organizing speaker events, workshops, and panels for students. They connect students with startups through their network of fellow students, founders, and mentors.

University Programs

TI:GER Georgia Tech

In partnership with the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), the TI:GER Program, which stands for Technology Innovation: Generating Economic Results, is making MBAs mean more. Students get real-world experience in technology innovation, working alongside other disciplines in actual startup settings while learning from faculty, a vast network of industry mentors — including more than 700 TI:GER alumni — and other experts.

University Programs

TI:GER Innovation from Emory

Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results, or TI:GER, is a nationally recognized collaboration between Emory Law and the Georgia Institute of Technology. TI:GER brings together graduate students in law, business, science, and engineering to work on start-up projects to transform highly promising research into economically viable projects.

University Programs

University Growth Fund

University Growth Fund is a unique, experiential learning opportunity designed to give university students unparalleled access to the venture capital and private equity industry. Students learn from many of the best investors and entrepreneurs as they source investment opportunities, perform due diligence, and play a key role in making real investment decisions.

University Programs

University of Georgia (UGA) Food Product Innovation and Commercialization Center

This center was initiated by the faculty of the Department of Food Science and Technology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and associates of the University of Georgia. It is internationally recognized for development of innovative food products and discovery, and for implementation of cutting-edge science and technology.




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