Nakia Melecio
MA, PysD
GA, USNakia Melecio is a serial entrepreneur, developer, and an executive with over 20 years of experience in founding, operating, and growing successful companies. He has successfully started and grown businesses both nationally, as well as internationally; in countries like Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Africa.
Nakia's current passion is inspiring and helping entrepreneurs and startups out of universities. His objective is to identify great entrepreneurs with love for taking a risk, aligning strategy, and executing on their ideas. Nakia is an active member and mentor of the technology community and a frequent contributor to numerous business organizations like SCORE Association, a resource partner to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). He currently mentors for the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps) and the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). He has been intimately involved with many new emerging growth technologies, companies with the government, and corporate innovation.
He shares in the thought leadership community through speaking at conferences, publishing works and engaging the community as a business advisor, business mentor, high-tech mentor, and startup coach. Mr. Melecio has a master's degree in Education, Teaching, and Learning, and Educational Technology, bachelor's degree in Psychology, a bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science and he also has a Doctor of Psychology, Educational Psychology, Educational Leadership.
Nakia Melecio is a serial entrepreneur, developer, and an executive with over 20 years of experience in founding, operating, and growing successful companies. He has successfully started and grown businesses both nationally, as well as internationally; in countries like Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Africa.
Nakia's current passion is inspiring and helping entrepreneurs and startups out of universities. His objective is to identify great entrepreneurs with love for taking a risk, aligning strategy, and executing on their ideas. Nakia is an active member and mentor of the technology community and a frequent contributor to numerous business organizations like SCORE Association, a resource partner to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). He currently mentors for the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps) and the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). He has been intimately involved with many new emerging growth technologies, companies with the government, and corporate innovation.
He shares in the thought leadership community through speaking at conferences, publishing works and engaging the community as a business advisor, business mentor, high-tech mentor, and startup coach. Mr. Melecio has a master's degree in Education, Teaching, and Learning, and Educational Technology, bachelor's degree in Psychology, a bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science and he also has a Doctor of Psychology, Educational Psychology, Educational Leadership.
Adapting in The Age of AI
Leading, Learning, & Training in a Digital Age
Digital? It means so many things to so many people. In terms of business drivers, it emerges in the form of digital strategy, the need to offer customers/consumers multiple channels to engage with the business, or the drive for digital services. In organizational culture, it shows up in ever increasing demands for collaboration, innovation and inter-generational understanding, as digital natives enter the work-force in greater numbers.
Go-To-Market Approach & Value Proposition, Segmentation, and Capital Raise
The Business Model and Keeping Customers
Developing your initial go-to-market strategy and winning your first customers can seem daunting in an ever-evolving business climate. This session will cover common business development decisions that confront entrepreneurs. The goal is to help you better anticipate and assess the changing needs and opportunities of your business, along with viable sales and marketing strategies necessary for successfully navigating dynamic markets.
Preparing to Launch and Scale: Essential Components
This session was created to give you the information you need to begin to take your validated opportunity, build an MVP, and begin to design a winning pitch. Smart entrepreneurs can avoid wasting time by designing an initial product that only serves the core needs of its customers and may be able to avoid an unnecessary pivot by finding the right product-market fit early on. By the end of this webinar, you'll understand if your product is truly minimally viable, know why an MVP is a good...
Validating Market After Customer Discovery
This session outlines essential steps for customer discovery, including Testing the Problem/Need, Problem-Solution Fit, Testing the Solution, and Product-Market Fit. You will learn how to assess and validate needs for viable, yet efficient products in complex, technology-based markets.
Customer Discovery
This session is on Customer Discovery. The first step of Customer Discovery is to identify and validate an "unmet need" in the market-a process often referred to as "Testing the Problem/Need." This phase of discovery is often referred to as seeking "Problem-Solution" fit. This session will cover how to move on to "Testing the Solution"-the phase of discovery where the company tries to validate "Product-Market" fit. Having identified a need, can the company build a product that meets that...
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