Start a Business Bootcamp: Summer Edition

Students can attend weekly live Zoom sessions with expert guest speakers. Each expert will discuss their career path, share advice on college admissions and high school course and extracurricular selection, and answer questions from students.

Note: All Zoom sessions are recorded so you can watch them asynchronously if you’re unable to attend live.

Guest speakers schedules change frequently, so the final schedule will be announced in April.

Attend optional weekly office hours via Zoom to ask questions and work with Ratio 21’s team of instructors and experts.

You’ll be invited to a Slack chatroom where you can interact with other students and the Ratio 21 team. We believe that peer-to-peer interaction is key to learning.}

Technology enables flexibility. We offer day and night programming, as well as recorded sessions, to accommodate busy schedules and students from around the world.

Note: the final schedules will be released in April.

• Startups are how great things come to life. Pretty much everything around you was probably created by an entrepreneur.
• In this opening session, you will hear about how some of the world’s greatest companies (e.g., Apple, TikTok, Netflix, or others) were born.
• You will learn about the original ideas behind these companies, and the struggles they faced along the way to becoming household names.

• Thinking of and developing new products are core to the startup journey.
• In this session, you will hear from an experienced entrepreneur or product developer to better understand how a physical or virtual product is created.
• How do you come up with and test ideas? How do you go from idea to reality, and what are some common pitfalls or challenges companies face?

• We know an inventor who has a zany new idea for a company. (We’re keeping the inventor and the idea under wraps for now).
• We’ll ask them to come in and present their idea to you and explain why they think it’s the next big thing.

• Now that you have the background on startups and what makes a good idea, you'll have a chance to come up with a plan for how to take the next step in creating your own business.