Sustainable-X Scale Lab

SUSTAIN-X Scale Lab

Announcements:

What’s on deck:

Workshop 5: May 8, 10a- 12:00p ET- the meeting is hybrid! [LINK]

*** We now have a WhatsApp group, join us today by clicking on this link, or sending your number to Kjersti

Interested in talking with the team? check out the office hours and calendly links below.

Our Program

Join our cohort of Startups ready to scale up themselves and their companies. Our team will work with your company to advance and tighten up your business model.

Overall Objectives:

  • Developing hard skills required for scaling early-stage startups
  • Making tangible progress towards operational (sales, product development) goals
  • Building a supportive peer and mentor community
  • Building personal resilience as an entrepreneur

Expected Deliverables:

  • 4 skill-based canvases to help you advance your business model
  • Founders Diary entries to help you reflect on your personal leadership development journey

Overview

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Schedule
  • Kick-off sessions (in person)
  • 4 x Skill Development sessions (virtual, 1.5 hours)
  • 4 x Canvas review periods, culminating in voting on all canvases
  • 2 x Coaching sessions (individual and team)
  • Wrap-up session and showcase (TBD in person)

Meeting Schedule

Canvases

Canvases are blank templates for you to record all the key aspects of your business model and operations. Just as the Business Model Canvas is used to outline your entire business model, each canvas will deep dive into a specific skill area needed to help you scale your sustainability start-ups. The canvases are designed to be not just a theoretical exercise, but are an operational tool that you can reference for key strategies and KPIs.

Each company will work on a canvas together for each of the four skill development areas. Companies will have two weeks to work on their canvases and have them reviewed by Karthik, Andre, or Jackie. Once they are all completed, the canvases will be peer reviewed and voted on by other teams for further reflection. The most highly ranked canvas will get a recognition by the leadership team.

Canvas Modules will appear here as they are discussed


December 17, Skill Development 1: Business Models and Systems for Scale [MEETING RECORDING]
January 23, Skill Development 2: Building a Team for Scale
March 6+7, Skill Development 3: How to raise funding and refine your pitch
April 10, Skill Development 4: Building Sustainability Metrics

If a founder would like to work on a hard copy of these modules before uploading them for review, please contact Kjersti Lukens (klukens3@gatech.edu).

Founder Diary

An important part of launching and scaling a start-up is the personal resilience and development of the founder. As inputs to the individualized coaching that is part of Scale Lab, each founder will have their own personal word doc to record their personal leadership reflections and feedback called a Founder’s Diary. The diaries will only be available for view by the founder, SUSTAIN-X Leadership, and Jackie. Access is available through the google drive

Office Hours

Emma’s Office Hours: CALENDLY LINK **note: if you can’t find availability, please reach out to Emma directly (escolenbrander@gmail.com)

Jackie’s Calendly Link: CALENDLY LINK **note: if you can’t find availability, please reach out to Jackie directly (jackie.stenson@gmail.com)

All other inquiries can be made to Kjersti Lukens (Klukens3@gatech.edu)

Other Resources

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