Our Programs

Gain valuable business and leadership skills while learning to think like an entrepreneur.

The Entrepreneur Academy in partnership with TYE

This unique and challenging 12-week program is designed to give high school students a comprehensive entrepreneurial education in team oriented, mentor driven environment. This program is offered in the spring and fall.

We are now accepting applications for the 2021 class. Please submit your application by December 19th, 2020.

Classroom instruction by university professors

Mentor guided teams develop prototype businesses

Learn basic marketing, accounting & presentation skills

Solution testing to satisfy early adopters

Inspirational talks and field trips by successful entrepreneurs

Final pitch competition and opportunity to compete globally

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Three female TYE students with water bottles

TEA Summer Graduate Incubation Program

This 8-week program in partnership with Miramar College’s Regional Entrepreneurship Center (REC) is designed as a follow-up program for current TYE students and mentors with a more advanced curriculum and additional resources geared towards launching a successful startup. Students will earn a transferable course credit. Please contact us if you would like information about the next session.

Problem testing: customer discovery

Offer testing/reaching early adopters

Payment testing for early adopters

Project scope from ideation to execution strategy

Scaling to achieve product-market fit

Profitability testing at scale

Program Benefits

Entrepreneurial education, networking opportunities, and hands-on experience

Education

Learn college-level material from qualified professors & business leaders

Gain valuable skills through mentorship from highly achieved entrepreneurs

Attend valuable field trips to business headquarters

Networking

Listen to and interact with world-renowned CEOs

Build relationships with mentors, teammates & other program participants

Experience

Work from ideation to execution with like-minded teammates

Formulate a detailed business plan and financial strategies

Present your pitch to a panel of investors

What Parents & Students Are Saying

Jaimie Walsh, Parent

Strong Foundation for Success When Entering the Business World

The TYE program has been an exceptional opportunity for Lucas to not only learn how to develop and pitch a business plan but to network with entrepreneurs in the community. The skills he has acquired and the contacts he has made will provide a strong foundation for success when he enters the business world.

Craig Banner, Parent

This Type of Real World Experience is Unmatched!

I urge you to invest your children’s time and effort in these programs because the outcome is incomparable. My son didn’t have much direction on what to do in terms of the future and this program gave him a strong business direction and taught him life long lessons regarding his relationships within team members. This type of real world experience is unmatched and will have an incredibly positive lasting impact on your children as well.

Devang Shah, Mentor

Get Your Children in These Programs ASAP!

Parents, as a mentor and a parent myself, if I can give you one piece of advice it would be get your children in these programs ASAP! Planting the seeds while embarking on this journey and providing the right nutrition goes a long way not only to the students that are growing, but also to society as they are giving back their ‘fruits’ to the very same people who have supported them. This program [TYE Fall Program] has fueled this effort very graciously to each and everyone of its students.