Program explainer
What is Startup Foundations?
Most "entrepreneurship for kids" ends in a pitch deck. This one ends in a working link and real people signing up — a site your child builds, publishes, and then changes based on what visitors actually do. Try it below.
Change the page, then launch it
Press Send 100 visitors to see how many sign up.
Same product, same code — only the words changed. That loop is the job: ship it, measure what real people did, change one thing, ship again. Guessing which version is better is exactly what this program teaches students to stop doing.
What they'll actually make
A product that is live
Not a prototype or a slide deck. HTML, CSS and JavaScript, version-controlled on GitHub and deployed to the internet, with a URL anyone can open.
Scope, cut down to size
Every idea gets split into Core, Enhanced and Future — then they ship the core. Deciding what not to build is most of what makes anything get finished.
Real feedback, then a plan
A user testing session with an actual person, and a Phase 2 plan based on what that person did — not on what your child hoped they would do.
Why choose this program
It ends with proof, not a pitch
A live URL and a GitHub history showing the work. That is something to put in front of a school or a university, and it is very hard to fake.
Validation comes before code
The test above runs first, every time. It is the habit that separates people who build useful things from people who just build things.
Cutting scope is the real skill
Core, Enhanced, Future forces the decision every founder faces — what can I actually finish? — and it transfers to schoolwork immediately.
The tech is real, and reusable
The same HTML, CSS, JavaScript and GitHub as our web development track. The difference here is that it is pointed at a product with a user attached.
The tools: VS Code, GitHub and GitHub Pages or Netlify to publish — all free.