Hi guys, I'm Maggie. I'm a first year Georgia Tech MBA candidate and this is my second semester with the TI:GER program. My group is working on a medical device that can treat diabetes. Since one of the best parts of the TI:GER program is its large network, I thought I'd tell you a little bit about our mentors...
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Regarding our mentors, I’ll quote the indubitably wise Tony
the Tiger here: they’re grrrrrrrrrrreat!
Let me back up for a moment.
For those of you who don’t know, each TI:GER team gets assigned a law
mentor and a business mentor. Below I
try to give a highlight reel of our meetings.
Our law mentor is a former TI:GER Emory Law alum – he
graduated from the program four years ago.
In our first meeting, he had all the documents we’d sent over bounded
and tabbed. He’d also brought another
member of his firm to help out. They
blew me away – so energetic, so willing to help, so knowledgeable. Both have been a huge asset to our team as we
struggle to understand the current patent landscape. Last week our group went to one of the mentor’s
home for pizza and we got to know each other outside of TI:GER.
Our business mentor has been with the TI:GER program for
about 5 years. A former TI:GER student
now works at his start-up company. Our
team had been struggling with this one issue about why competitors enter a
specific market, and our mentor was able to give us an answer within 2 minutes
of starting our meeting. I also really
liked his comment “I’d be happy to open my network to you.” We need to speak with endocrinologists (docs
that treat people with diabetes) and our mentor immediately knew who we could
get in touch with to get an introduction to those doctors. That kind of knowledge and networking is
truly invaluable to our team.
The TI:GER mentors far exceed my expectations. I’m so impressed that these successful
professionals really care about our project and want to help any way they can. So far this has been one of my favorite
aspects of the TI:GER program.
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