On World Mental Health Day, we're thrilled to unveil our latest project, "Stay in the Game," an innovative initiative aimed at creating a powerful synergy between the dynamic world of startups and the thriving tech ecosystem. We understand that the entrepreneurial journey is not always a linear path to success, and many founders face the ...
The United States of America aspires to be the greatest country in the world for freedom, opportunity and economic mobility - an economically just country. For us entrepreneurs, the possibility of seeing our dreams turn into reality is enough for us to make significant personal and professional sacrifices, as we know those sacrifices mean we’ll ...
At Goodie Nation, our foundational belief is that we (humans) have everything needed to create the change we seek but we (humans) are inefficient at making the change happen. And the change we’re creating at Goodie Nation is all about relationships that matter for founders in the innovation economy. That’s why I’m super excited to ...
The good news keeps coming as, today, we officially welcome the 46 recipients of the 2023 Google for Startups Black and Latino Founders Funds into the Goodie Nation community. These founders are highly energetic, excellent communicators, and domain experts. Many are second and third-time founders and a few have exits under their belt. The collective ...
I'm super excited to welcome the newest members of the Goodie Nation community to our team - the Summer 2023 Fellows. This crop of dope people will be supporting startups at the pre-seed and seed stage, building communities in the US as well as across the world, and focusing on tech storytelling. They have previous ...
Tamay Shannon, our Social Media Manager, got a chance to sit down with Jordan Sprogis from HostingAdvice.com, the authority on web hosting, last month to talk about how we started as well as how we're supporting entrepreneurs. Read the full article on their website here.
We're excited to announced that Emory University Goizueta Business School students in partnership with the Philanthropy Lab and the Center for Civic Innovation (CCI) have awarded us a grant to address inequity in the Atlanta area! This grant will allow us to extend our Atlanta Community Builder Fellowship another 12 months, and keep our community ...
Years from now, we may look back at last month as an inflection point for Black tech around the world. Two big things happened. First, Tech Equity Collective, a Google initiative, announced the recipients of the inaugural Tech Equity Collective Impact Fund for organizations supporting Black software engineers and developers. Second, Google for Startups has, ...
At Goodie Nation, we often talk about being "intentionally good" - the act of consistently making an extra effort to support diverse founders and social entrepreneurs with capital, customers, advice, and storytelling. And to create an "intentionally good" culture, one should spend one hour doing one of these things per month for six straight months. ...
Today marks an inflection point for Goodie Nation as we welcome the 30 recipients of the 2023 Lenovo Evolve Small Grant into our Intentionally Good community. But these companies are not the tech startups we normally support, they represent some of the highest-potential diverse-led CPG brands and Brick-and-Mortar companies across the US and Canada. Each ...
