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OPPORTUNITY HUB, KINGONOMICS & DIGIT CREATE “ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEKEND”
WITH AIM TO BRING TOGETHER TEN THOUSAND ASPIRING & EXISTING INNOVATORS,
ENTREPRENEURS & INVESTORS FOR A ONE DAY CONFERENCE & TWO DAY EXPO
February 21 - 22, 2015
Atlanta, GA (January 30, 2015) – Building on the success of its large scale conferences and
events, Kingonomics and Opportunity Hub have partnered with Digit to host the first ever
“Entrepreneurship Weekend” aimed at bringing together ten thousand (10,000) aspiring and
existing innovators, entrepreneurs and investors for a two day conference and expo, Saturday
February 21 and Sunday, February 22, 2015 at New Birth Church in Lithonia, GA.
Featured speakers, instructors and panelists include David Weild IV (Founder, IssuWorks;
Former Vice Chairman of NASDAQ); Jennifer Bonnett, Assistant Director; Education &
Community Outreach; Founder, Startup Chicks; James Andrews, Founder, True Story Agency;
Frank Ski, Philanthropist & Owner, Frank Ski’s Restaurant; Teen Entrepreneur & Author, Maya
Penn; Kim Harwell, CEO, GovPurchase; Sue Malone (Angel Investor & Nation’s #1 Independent
SBA Lender); Judy Robinett (Super Angel Investor; Author of Time Magazine’s 2015 Top 10
Business Book, How To Be A Power Connector); Erica Barrett, Founder, Southern Culture Foods;
featured on ABC’s Sharktank); Grace Fricks (Founder, Access To Capital (ACE) Loans; Director,
SBA Women’s Business Center and Atlanta Partner, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses
Atlanta); Mary Parker (Founder, All-N-1 Security & Immediate Past Chairman, Atlanta Business
League), State Representative Dar’Shun Kendrick, Karen Robinson (President, TiE-The Indus
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Entrepreneurs Association; SVP, Nanolumens) and Rodney Sampson (Founder & CEO,
Opportunity Hub; Author, Kingonomics, Twelve Innovative Currencies for Transforming Your
Business & Life, Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Throughout the day, attendees will experience engaging and unforgettable keynotes,
authentic classes and interactive conversations from entrepreneurs that have started, scaled and
sold their businesses, active angel investors and alternative lenders looking for companies to
invest in and expert mentors who advise entrepreneurs from an idea to exit. The conference will
also include a STEM show for elementary and middle school children plus coding and
entrepreneurship for high school students.
Classes include:
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Disrupting Poverty & Closing The Wealth Gap via Saving, Crowdfunding & Beyond
Starting A Tech Company: Apps, Software, HIT & Beyond
Starting A Consumer Products Company: From Ideation To Shelves & Beyond
Starting A Franchise
Becoming A Supplier To The Government & Large Companies
Creative Economy: Create Culture, Create Wealth
Creating A Non-Profit Organization
Business Planning In The 21st Century Via Business Model Generation
Understanding Small Business Legal, Accounting & Finance
Angel & “Micro-Angel” Investing
Raising Capital Via The Investment Ecosystem
Growing & Scaling Your Existing Business
Increasing Revenue In Your Business Via Sales Automation
How To Create A Job As A Coder/Developer
Introduction to Coding & Gaming – High School Students
Introduction to Entrepreneurship – High School Students
STEM Science Academy – Elementary & Middle School Students
Cofounders Lab
Wealth Month
The large scale #10000Entrepreneurs conference is apart of a month long “Wealth Month” series
hosted by Opportunity Hub (OHUB), the nation’s largest majority minority owned multi-campus
coworking space, entrepreneurship school and incubator. Highlighted programming includes a
legislative hearing on Georgia’s Angel Investor Tax Credit at the State Capital, The Diaspora Day
of Civic Hacking, a Global Civic Hackathon, The Young Leaders Conference with The World Affairs
Council of Atlanta, NEYO’s Compound Foundation Youth Town Hall Meeting, @SproutUpTreps
with Teen Entrepreneur, Jaylen Bledsoe, Goodie Hackathon at Google, and a HBCU (Historically
Black College & University) Millennial Trep Day with the Small Business Administration.
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Media Quotes
“With the average net worth of a person of color (black and brown) in America less than $8,000, it
is imperative that we provide a platform for exposure, education and engagement with the
innovation, entrepreneurship and investment ecosystems. Only then can we close the wealth gap
and create equity and parity for all. To this end, we envision Wealth Month will change the
economic trajectory of Atlanta, surrounding cities and counties, our nation and world,” says
Rodney Sampson, Angel Investor, Founder & CEO, Opportunity Hub and Author of Kingonomics:
Twelve Innovative Currencies for Transforming Your Business & Life, Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
Additionally, OHUB will open up its monthly programming to the public which includes daily
introductory classes on starting a business, curated 1-on-1 conversations with active angel
investors, lenders and venture capitalists, a 1 day intensive startup accelerator with TiE (The Indus
Entrepreneurs) and industry specific meet-ups, pop-ups and networking events. OHUB
programming features over fifty experts and mentors in residence - all committed and dedicated to
closing the wealth gap in America and beyond by presenting innovative tools for saving money,
teaching everyday citizens to start and scale growth oriented businesses and creating a pipeline of
small, large and institutional investors and stakeholders.
Wealth Month’s primary sponsor, Digit, a silicon valley venture backed financial technology
company that helps people automatically and intelligently save money without thinking about it, is
contributing five ($5) dollars per new user all month to support OHUB’s seed investment fund and
code school scholarships to ensure that more minorities and women are represented in the
innovation economy. Digit is free to all.
Registration
All of Opportunity Hub and Kingonomics’ events in February are free and open to the public.
Early registration is advised as most events and classes will fill up fast. Preferred seating is
available for $20 at the Ten Thousand Innovators, Entrepreneurs & Investors Conference & Expo.
Exhibit booths are $100.
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Register for Entrepreneurship Weekend, February 21-22, at www.wealthmonth.com
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For media credentials, please email Farah Akbar at farah@opportunityhub.co
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For exhibits, please email Earl Coleman at earl@opportunityhub.co
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About Opportunity Hub
Opportunity Hub (OHUB), www.opportunityhub.co is a multi-campus coworking space,
entrepreneurship school, pre-accelerator and incubator. OHUB's definitive mission is to innovate,
start and scale high growth companies by providing access to collaborative work spaces, authentic
mentorship, full immersive classes, innovative practices, essential resources, meaningful
connections and smart capital - in sectors such as technology, consumer products, Internet of
things, supply chain innovation and social impact.
Created with the idea of an early stage and startup company in mind, OHUB is for anyone that is
serious about working in an environment of like-minded entrepreneurs and committed to learning,
implementing and sharing the knowledge, best practices and relationships formed while in our
ecosystem.
OHUB curates and offers over 30 introductory classes, meet-ups and partner lunch-and-learns on
a monthly basis. In addition, general educational programming includes business model
generation, customer discovery, entrepreneurial fundamentals and access to capital. Industry
specific cohorts, a pre-accelerator and code school are also available. A formal accelerator
program, venture fund and funding pipeline are being ideated and created.
About Kingonomics
Based on the best selling book inspired by the economic ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as
interpreted through the lens of serial entrepreneur, investor, author and consecrated bishop,
Rodney Sampson, Kingonomics is the definitive social impact platform providing access to expert
knowledge and expert practitioners in innovation, entrepreneurship and investment.
The definitive mission of Kingonomics is to facilitate an economic and institutional platform
designed to address poverty and the wealth gap via the efficient use of existing and new
knowledge and best practices for innovation, entrepreneurship and investment.
This is accomplished by creating an efficient ecosystem of interconnected experts, firms, research
centers, universities, thought leaders, economists, incubators, entrepreneurs, investors and
advisors that are presented via Kingonomics large scale conferences, intensive trainings, learning
programs, courses, curriculum and certification. Kingonomics launched #WealthMonth in February
2015.
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