For High School Juniors & Seniors | 13-Week Self-Paced Online Program
From Idea to First Customer
Build something real before college. Learn how to find a problem worth solving, talk to real customers, build a simple MVP, understand the money, and make your first serious attempt to land a customer.
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Entrepreneurship Learned by Doing
Start Taking Action
Move from passive interest to action. You’ll learn how to notice problems, choose an idea, set a plan, and make progress without waiting for perfect instructions.
Think Customer-First
Stop guessing what people want. You’ll talk to real potential customers, ask better questions, identify patterns, and adapt based on evidence — not assumptions.
Build Something People Can Test
Turn your idea into something people can react to. You’ll build a simple MVP — a landing page, service offer, store, prototype, or social media test — and put it in front of real people.
No business experience required. Just a practical process for turning curiosity into real work you can use in applications, interviews, and future ventures.
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Learn Business From People Who Have Lived It
You are not learning business from theory alone. You’ll be guided by people who have built companies, invested in founders, taught business, and made real decisions under uncertainty.
Business is not learned by memorizing definitions. It is learned by making decisions, asking better questions, testing assumptions, and reflecting on what happened. This course gives you the structure to do that before college — with guidance from people who understand both the classroom and the real world.
What You’ll Actually Learn to Do
This is not a course about memorizing business terms. You’ll practice the real steps entrepreneurs take to turn an idea into something people might actually buy.
Find Problems Worth Solving
Learn how to notice everyday frustrations, evaluate which problems are painful enough to matter, and choose one idea to pursue.
Shape a Clear Business Idea
Turn a vague idea into a simple value proposition: who it helps, what problem it solves, and why someone would want it.
Talk to Real Customers
Learn how to ask better questions, avoid biased feedback, and run real conversations that show whether your idea has demand.
Build a Simple MVP
Create a landing page, service offer, store, prototype, or social media test so people can respond to something tangible.
Understand the Money
Learn the basics of revenue, costs, profit, break-even, pricing, and whether your idea can actually work as a business.
Make the Ask
Practice outreach, follow-up, pricing conversations, and the moment every entrepreneur faces: asking someone to buy.
The 13-Week Journey From Idea to First Customer
A self-paced online program that takes you step by step through the real startup process: choosing an idea, testing it with real people, building something simple, understanding the money, and making your first serious customer outreach.
By the end of the program, you will have chosen a business idea, interviewed real potential customers, built a simple MVP, tested demand, created a basic financial model, and made a serious attempt to land your first customer.
Each week combines short lessons, practical exercises, AI-assisted workflows, reflection prompts, and real-world action. You are not just learning concepts — you are building evidence, making decisions, and improving your idea as you go.
Before the course begins, you set up the tools and workspace you’ll use throughout the program.
You’ll set up:
- Your course notebook
- Your Problem Log
- AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude
- Google Docs, Sheets, or Notion
- Canva for simple visuals
- A basic web presence tool like Carrd or Google Sites
- The course community space
Outcome:
You start with the tools, structure, and roadmap you need to move through the program without starting from a blank page.
You learn how entrepreneurs spot opportunities, evaluate ideas, and choose one problem worth solving.
You’ll learn how to:
- Notice problems in everyday life
- Use a Problem Log to capture ideas
- Score problems by pain, frequency, and solution gap
- Narrow broad ideas into specific opportunities
- Write a clear value proposition
- Choose one business idea to pursue
Milestone:
You submit a Business Brief with your chosen idea, target customer, value proposition, and pre-flight check.
You get out of your own head and test whether real people actually experience the problem you want to solve.
You’ll learn how to:
- Define your ideal first customer
- Find where your customers spend time
- Write better interview questions
- Avoid biased feedback
- Conduct real customer interviews
- Identify patterns in what people say
- Decide whether to continue, adjust, or pivot
Milestone:
You submit a Customer Insight Report summarizing your interviews, key insights, and any changes to your idea.
You turn your idea into something people can react to — then test whether there is real interest.
You’ll learn how to:
- Choose the right MVP format
- Build a landing page, service offer, store, prototype, or social media test
- Create a simple financial model
- Understand revenue, costs, profit, break-even, and pricing
- Share your MVP with real people
- Collect feedback and measure demand
- Decide what needs to improve before selling
Milestone:
You submit an MVP Case Study with your MVP, feedback, validation scorecard, and updated financial assumptions.
You learn how to market with no budget, set a price, make the ask, and follow up with real prospects.
You’ll learn how to:
- Build a simple outreach list
- Write direct messages that do not feel spammy
- Use warm contacts before cold outreach
- Set a realistic price
- Practice pricing conversations
- Handle objections and rejection
- Make your first serious customer ask
- Decide what to do next based on the result
Milestone:
You submit either a First Customer Story or a Lessons Learned Report documenting what happened, what you learned, and what you would do next.
I used to think entrepreneurship started with a perfect idea. This program made me realize it starts with noticing a problem and doing something about it.
Talking to real customers changed the way I thought about my idea. I stopped guessing and started paying attention to what people actually said.
Building an MVP made everything more real. It was no longer just an idea in my head — it was something people could react to.
Now I have a real story to tell: the idea I chose, the people I interviewed, what I built, and what I learned from trying to get a customer.
Program Details & What’s Included
Everything you need to move through the course, build your idea, and finish with real work you can show.
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Program length: 13 weeks + orientation
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Format: Fully online and self-paced
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Time commitment: About 3–4 hours per week
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Who it’s for: High school juniors and seniors
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Experience needed: None — you do not need a business idea before starting
- Main outcome: Build, test, and present a real business idea from problem discovery to first-customer outreach
You can move through the course on your own schedule, but the weekly structure keeps you focused and moving forward.
This program is for you if you:
- Are curious about business, startups, or entrepreneurship
- Have ideas but do not know what to do with them
- Want to build something real before college
- Are willing to talk to real people and get feedback
- Want stronger material for applications, interviews, internships, or future ventures
- Prefer learning by doing instead of only watching lectures
Course materials:
- Step-by-step video lessons
- Reading modules and case examples
- Weekly practical exercises
- AI prompts and workflows
- Reflection prompts and weekly reviews
Templates and tools:
- Problem Log template
- Business Brief template
- Customer Interview scripts
- Customer Insight Report template
- MVP Build Plan
- Simple financial model
- Marketing Tracker
- First Customer Story / Lessons Learned template
Community and support:
- Course community access
- Phase-based discussion channels
- Peer feedback opportunities
- Space to share wins, questions, and work-in-progress
By the end of the program, you will have created:
- A clear business idea and value proposition
- Notes from real customer interviews
- A simple MVP people can react to
- A basic financial model
- A marketing and outreach tracker
- A first-customer attempt
- A final reflection or case study you can use in applications, interviews, internships, or future projects
Invest in Building Something Real
Founder Sprint
A 13-week self-paced entrepreneurship program that helps you find a real problem, build a simple MVP, understand the money, and make your first serious attempt to land a customer.
You’ll leave with:
- A business idea you have actually tested
- Real customer interview insights
- A simple MVP people can react to
- A basic financial model and pricing logic
- Outreach experience and a first-customer attempt
- A final project you can use in applications, interviews, and future ventures
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No business experience required · 13 weeks · Fully online · Self-paced