Startup Week CHA 2016

Join David Hendee from Carbon Five as we break into teams and learn how to create an Experience Map. Then learn how to use the map to design new products and improve existing ones. We'll explore:

- Describing existing real-world experiences with simple, visual experience maps
- Annotate our maps with customer pain points from user interviews, personas, or domain expertise
- Ideate multiple solutions to customer problems
- Adjust our experience maps to capture our new product concepts
- Discuss ways to extend experience maps

This workshop will give you innovative and practical tools to shake up your business routine, have more fun, and create more consciousness and money in the world!

5 Things You Won’t Want to Miss!

1. Procrastination - Why it may not be as bad as you think it is and what it’s actually telling you
2. How to choose pricing, ask for money and receive it, without feeling like a total a-hole
3. Money follows joy…really! Questions (yes questions, not answers) to create more of both!
4. Are you OCC, an Obsessive Compulsive Creator, and how can you use that to your advantage? ;)
5. Following your gut and trusting what you know - how to create what you know is possible and may not have been done before!

Emily Evans Russell, M.A., JCF, has tried her hand in all sorts of businesses - from teaching Biology to serving and bartending, to creating social media, marketing, and communications for the global companies, Access Consciousness® and Joy of Business™. A recent addition to Chattanooga and former Midwest native, Emily is a mother of 2 young girls, yoga teacher, speaker, Head of Creative Marketing & Production for Joy of Business, Social Media & Promotion Maven for Access Consciousness, and lover of having fun!

The workshop will provide tools and tips for artists on how to better position themselves in the art market and ensure that they can make a living by selling their own art.

Deadlines, timelines and outlines. Ease the stress of start-up life with a moment of directed creativity. Reconnect with the genius and inspiration that made you an entrepreneur in the first place.

Lunch will be provided. RSVP required for limited seats.

Join The Chattery at Basecamp at Miller Plaza for Speed Learning! Think speed dating, minus the awkward conversation, sweaty palms and rejection. This free event will feature some of The Chattery’s best instructors and most popular subjects.

Improvised Theater Performance by Improv Chattanooga

So many times entrepreneurs think they need new knowledge or resources to be successful, but most often we need a way to deal with the fear and personal demons that trip us up. Come join Change Your $tory as they show you how to get past fear and take hold of your destiny. You'll walk away feeling powerful and clear.

Have some fun with Improv Chattanooga and learn how to foster a work environment full of positivity.
Through improv games you’ll gain tools to improve collaboration and communication skills within your team.
Space is limited to 10 participants, and registration is required. Refreshments and laughter will be plentiful.