Call for Applications: gALPHA Charlotte Workshop (United States)

gALPHA is a free, four-week venture-creation workshop designed to help entrepreneurially minded students and technologists create high-growth startups. Get product ideas, mentorship and one-on-one coaching to develop a high-growth startup company. gALPHA is a program of a nationally ranked startup accelerator gener8tor.

gALPHA program looks like:

• Product Development: Ideate, validate and build minimum viable products (MVPs).
• Culture: Experience first-hand the challenges, but also tremendous benefit, of iterating quickly with minimal resources in solving business problems.
• Methodology: Come away with a roadmap for testing new ideas through the design of an MVP.
• Next Steps: Understand what you need to do to continue growing your company, and access other resources within gener8tor’s network to help.

Benefits

• Aspiring entrepreneurs will work one-on-one with their program director to identify a problem to solve, develop product ideas, test ideas through development of a minimum viable product (MVP), and connect with potential mentors, team members and partners to grow your idea into a business.
• Through one-on-one interaction with their program director and mentors, program participants gain valuable personalized insights that can be applied to their business strategy. Program focus areas include identifying high-growth business opportunities, validating the idea, developing a minimum viable product, and getting started in building a company.
• Benefits include:
  • Access to gener8tor’s robust national network of thousands of fellow entrepreneurs, mentors and investors, and warm introductions to those most relevant to your business
  • Membership in gener8tor’s startup community of thousands of startup founders, with access to gener8tor’s network, events and resources for the lifetime of your business

Eligibility Criteria

• You’re Based in Charlotte, NC
  • gALPHA Charlotte is an in-person venture-creation workshop for students and technologists who live in Charlotte, NC.
• You’re Committed
  • gALPHA provides product ideas, mentorship and coaching, then works with each team one-on-one for a month to help develop ideas.
• Skill-Specific Interests 
  • Entrepreneurially-minded individuals or teams who have technical skills in computer science, engineering, design and emerging technologies.
• Preference will be given to women, minority and under-resourced founders, residing in Charlotte, NC.

For more information, visit gener8tor.