If you’ve been thinking about building a startup — here is where you stop thinking, and start experimenting in a community of like-minded innovators.
The Build in Georgia (BIG) Sprint 2026Â is a high-intensity, full-day startup sprint designed to help you:
-> Identify a real, urgent customer problem
-> Validate whether it’s worth solving
->Â Turn assumptions into testable hypotheses
-> Run fast experiments to gain insights
-> Build a simple MVP prototype with AI
-> Gain insights to guide your next steps
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Only 50Â spots available.Â
By the end of the sprint, you will:
✔ Learn how to design experiments
Testing assumptions early through experiments help founders make smarter decisions faster.
✔ Build an MVP prototype
Create a simple demo of your product that can be used and reviewed by others.
✔ Gather valuable feedbackÂ
Collect insights that help you confirm, reject, and/or refine your assumptions.
✔ Define tangible next steps
 Achieve a clear sense of what to improve, validate, and/or build next.
This is not a networking event.
This is not for passive learning.
This is The BIG Sprint.
Top participants may be invited to join Georgia Startup Academy by 500 Global, a part of GITA’s Innovative Startup Acceleration Program, for continued mentorship, startups & VC network access, and ecosystem exposure.Â
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The BIG Sprint is limited to 50 participants.
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We're intentionally keeping this small. Why?
Because execution requires focus.
If accepted, you’ll receive confirmation and onboarding details.
