I recently went to a conference, Equity Matters: The Route to NASDAQ, sponsored by organizations that help women entrepreneurs, including Activate, Springboard and Path Forward.
The conference was filled with amazing women who have started technology companies and thrived. These women are now giving back to a new group of women entrepreneurs.
I was excited to find out more about ACTiVATE, a program that is nurturing women who want to start technology companies. ACTiVATE is a year long training program for experienced businesswomen.
The ACTiVATE program has three elements: ”:1) entrepreneurship and business instructon; 2) mentoring and skills development; 3) networking with regional resources.”
The ACTiVATE program provides an extensive support network for the enrolled women to increase the odds that they can be successful. If needed, the program actually helps women find suitable technology to develop and license through major universities. The program also helps women connect with other organizations like Springboard Enterprises, which helps women get VC funding.
This is an amazing resource! And it’s really cheap. I was very surprised that the cost in enrolling in the year long program was only $2000 and scholarships are available.
The benefit from this program could be the difference between success and failure. Just having a group of experienced entrepreneurs as a sounding board for ideas is invaluable. The classes are also designed to work with a working woman’s schedule. The classes are at night and on Saturday mornings.
There are several programs in the country and I was thrilled that Texas State University has an ACTiVATE program.
If you a woman who wants to start a technology company, I highly recommend that you check out ACTiVATE.
Starting a startup is hard. When you’re an entrepreneur you need all of the help you can get. ACTiVATe can help.
For more information about Texas State’s program, contact:
ACTiVATE
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY-SAN MARCOS
512.245.6038
ACTIVATE@txstate.edu
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