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For high school students and the parents investing in them
The business skills schools don't teach. Taught by people who actually built them.
Dan Oglevee and Timmy McCarthy have spent four decades teaching, investing, and building businesses — including 44 Raising Cane's franchises and a nine-figure exit. Now they're teaching what they wish they'd known at 16.
Join our group of successful graduates and make your next best move
Skills that compound.
Taught to high school students who'd rather learn this now than the hard way later.
Own the Room
A focused, single-day program where high school students develop the confidence, communication skills, and professional presence to build meaningful relationships — skills rarely taught but always required.
Develop entrepreneurial skills before college.
Founder Sprint: Your First Venture
You’ll choose an idea, validate it with real people, build a simple MVP, test demand, and make your first real sales attempt — all while creating a project you can show in applications, interviews, or future ventures.
Led by industry experts
55 years of combined experience
For high school students
Practice, not theory
Why this? Why now?
Most programs teach you to talk about business. Ours teach you to do it.
Built, Not Just Taught
The people teaching these programs aren't communications coaches or career consultants. They've built and sold businesses worth millions — including the largest Raising Cane's franchise organization in the country.
Practiced, Not Just Read About
Real introductions with real people. Real conversations with Columbus business owners. Real feedback from instructors who've been in the rooms students will eventually walk into.
Harvard Business School Foundation
Our curriculum is backed by Harvard Business School industry and background notes, giving you access to world-class business education and case studies.
A Head Start, Not a Hail Mary
Most people learn these skills the hard way — in a job interview that goes badly, at a networking event where they froze, in a meeting where they couldn't read the room. Our programs teach them while there's still time to practice.
A track record you can actually verify.
20K+
students taught in our careers
$550M+
in revenue generated by our students combined
Lucas
high school senior
This workshop is an absolute game-changer. Most high school students never get exposed to the kind of real-world business knowledge and skill development offered here. Under the leadership of Mr. Oglevee - a highly respected MBA professor with extensive industry experience - you don't just learn; you begin to master what it takes to succeed in business.
Chloe
high school junior
Before hearing Dan speak, I never fully understood how important networking was. He uses storytelling to explain it in a way that makes it feel real and doable. He totally changed how I think about building relationships, especially as I start planning for a career in real estate. Thanks to him, I've started taking advantage of more opportunities I wouldn’t have noticed before.
10+
Eight-figure exits by our students
35+
Years teaching business ownership
Learn from the people who already did it.
Two careers in business and education, taught directly. Not theory, not case studies — what they learned by doing it.
Fifty-five years of teaching, investing, and building real businesses - distilled into programs that don't waste your time.
Timmy both knows what it’s like to build a successful business from the ground up and how to teach others to succeed for themselves. He is 100% invested in those who want to know how and those who are walking the business ownership journey.
This class creates a personalized, application-based learning environment where you not only learn the exact elements necessary to building any business, but also pull out the depths of your life to give the context for which you can start to create your own.
This course gives you the tools, mindset, and clarity to actually take action on your business ideas. It combines practical frameworks with real-world examples, making the process of starting and growing a business both approachable and inspiring.
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Join hundreds of successful entrepreneurs who've transformed their business dreams into profitable reality through our programs.
Our business ownership courses are backed by our satisfaction guarantee - if you don't gain valuable business skills and confidence, we'll work with you until you do.