Switchyards Downtown Club

Switchyards Downtown Club opened in early 2016 as the consumer and design-focused startup community in Atlanta. The founders of Scoutmob…

Switchyards Downtown Club opened in early 2016 as the consumer and design-focused startup community in Atlanta. The founders of Scoutmob…

In late 2015, a few months before we opened the doors to Switchyards Downtown Club, we wrote a blog post called The Rise of the Atlanta…

Switchyards Downtown Club started with a single mission…help create more B2C winners in Atlanta. This mission set in motion a series of…

One year ago we announced a program at The Switchyards Downtown Club called Friends of Switchyards. Because the goal of SDC is to help…

A few months we announced a new program at Switchyards Downtown Club called Founder-in-Residence. This program was the combination of the…

One year ago today we opened the doors to the Switchyards Downtown Club. We are founders…not real estate experts. We are artists…not…

Starting today we are recruiting three people to join our full-time Founder-in-Residence program. This will be a six-month paid position…

001 / The Bitter Southerner (video)

Ever since we had the idea for Switchyards Studios and the Founder in Residence program we knew that we’d eventually create a “war room…

Note: This is the third in a 3-part blog post series about Switchyards Studios. The first post answered the question “What is Switchyards…

Note: This is the second in a 3-part blog post series about Switchyards Studios. The first post answered the question “What is Switchyards…

Note: This is the first in a 3-part blog post series about Switchyards Studios. This post will answer the question “What is Switchyards…

If you haven’t heard yet, we have an election coming up on November 8. Though highly entertaining, it hasn’t been the most inspiring…

Practice your pitch. Get candid feedback. Repeat.

Recently Techstars announced its inaugural class in Atlanta. Techstars is one of the top accelerator programs in the country, so the…

“If you are an entrepreneur in a company that is failing, don’t be ashamed. Most startups fail.”

We’ve tried to be very thoughtful and deliberate about every step of creating the Switchyards Downtown Club. First we bought a building…

The doors opened on The Switchyards Downtown Club only 71 days ago and we are incredibly excited to announce that we signed-up our 200th…

Every space that focuses on startups has a regular pitch/demo event. For example, we are huge fans of Jon Birdsong’s Atlanta Startup…

Last week was Members Week at Switchyards Downtown Club. It was an opportunity to celebrate our opening, welcome our members, and introduce…

Our goal at Switchyards Downtown Club was always to be the hub in Atlanta for consumer and design-focused startups. The first step down…

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