What
A guided entrepreneurship fellowship where teens run a Business Heroes company and learn through decisions, consequences, and reflection.
Entrepreneurship fellowship for ages 12-18
Visionaries Young Founders Fellowship
A 6-week guided online experience where teens run a simulated company, make real business decisions, and build the kind of judgement, initiative, and adaptability they will need as AI changes the future of work.
Teens practise entrepreneurship inside the same Business Heroes simulation used in serious learning environments.
Quick parent details
What it is, where it happens, and how your child learns.
The Fellowship turns screen time into structured founder practice: students test business ideas, see consequences, explain their choices, and improve with guidance over six weeks.
Where
Delivered online through the Business Heroes simulation with scheduled live touchpoints. Cohort-specific meeting details are confirmed with qualified families.
When
Six focused weeks. Upcoming cohort dates and live-session times are confirmed during the parent fit conversation.
How
Students complete weekly founder missions, improve their choices, and build toward a parent-visible progress review.
Parent application
Apply for the Founder Readiness Review
Share a few details about your child, your goals, and your schedule. If the Fellowship looks suitable, we will confirm cohort timing, the short readiness step, terms, and payment details with you before enrollment.
What happens after you apply
An advisor reviews age fit, parent goals, availability, and the student's readiness for a serious simulation-led cohort. If it looks right, we invite the family into the next step.
What the readiness step means
After the parent application, we may invite the student to a short readiness conversation or task so we can understand their motivation, availability, and fit for the 6-week cohort rhythm.
Your family's review
Clear next steps before any enrollment decision.
Every application is reviewed for initiative, judgement, curiosity, and readiness to contribute. When fit is promising, the parent conversation can cover what we observed, where your child may grow, and how the Fellowship would challenge them.
Is this right for your child?
Built for curious teens who are ready to practise.
This is designed for families who want entrepreneurship to feel practical, structured, and visible, with enough challenge for the student to grow and enough clarity for parents to follow progress.
Best fit for families
- Student is 12-18 and curious about building, selling, leading, or solving problems.
- Family can protect 2-3 focused online hours per week for six weeks.
- Parent wants visible progress, reflection, and a final portfolio review.
- Student is ready to try decisions, learn from consequences, and explain their thinking.
Clear expectations
- Focused on practice, reflection, and visible progress, not guaranteed awards, income, funding, investor access, or admissions advantage.
- Not an academic-credit programme or an endorsement by any school, university, or institution unless Visionaries states that separately in writing.
- Not a casual self-serve game; parent support and the weekly cohort rhythm matter.
Why entrepreneurship now
They do not memorise business. They practise it.
Business Heroes turns entrepreneurship into a sequence of decisions students can feel: choose a location, design products, set prices, manage cash, hire staff, and respond when the market pushes back. In an AI-heavy future, that habit of making judgements, testing assumptions, and communicating trade-offs is one of the most useful skills a young person can build.
AI-era judgement
As AI handles more routine work, students practise spotting opportunities, weighing trade-offs, and making decisions with incomplete information.
Business decision-making
Students make pricing, product, cash, hiring, and marketing decisions, then see the consequences in the simulation.
Resilience and initiative
Every setback becomes evidence. Students learn to diagnose mistakes, adjust strategy, and try again with a clearer plan.
Portfolio-style evidence
The Journey builds toward progress milestones that families can use as a practical record of effort, reasoning, and improvement.
The 6-week path
A focused founder sprint for teens
The Fellowship wraps the implemented Business Heroes Entrepreneurship Journey in an admissions-led experience: clear expectations, weekly progress, and a practical finish line families can recognise.
Week 1
Start like an entrepreneur
Choose a business strategy, understand customers, and set the first operating assumptions.
Week 2
Price for profit
Test pricing, demand, margin, and the trade-off between volume and profit.
Week 3
Run the operation
Manage inventory, staff, service speed, and constraints when the market changes.
Week 4
Understand the money
Read cash, profit, cost pressure, and the signals that show whether a plan is working.
Week 5
Build the team and brand
Make hiring, marketing, and customer-experience choices that shape the business.
Week 6
Grow wisely
Present what changed, what worked, what failed, and what the student would test next.
Cohort details parents ask about
Where, when, and how it works.
The Fellowship runs as a guided 6-week online cohort through the Business Heroes simulation, with scheduled live touchpoints and parent-visible progress. Cohort dates, meeting details, and tuition are confirmed with qualified families because timing can vary by cohort.
Six-week cohort rhythm
Students progress through one founder mission each week, with a clear focus and a practical decision to improve.
Simulation plus live touchpoints
The work happens through Business Heroes and scheduled cohort touchpoints. Meeting details depend on the confirmed cohort.
Parent fit conversation
After the parent application, we confirm goals, timing, student readiness, schedule, terms, and payment details before enrollment.
Parent-visible finish line
The target outcome is practical evidence: simulation milestones, reflection prompts, and a portfolio-style progress review families can understand.
Built on real education use
Trusted in serious learning environments, adapted for families.
The underlying Business Heroes simulation has been used in serious entrepreneurship education settings. For the family Fellowship, that experience is adapted into a guided, parent-visible path for teens.
Each student's progress depends on participation and context, so the family version focuses on practice, reflection, and better conversations around business decisions. Participation does not imply endorsement by any school, university, or institution unless Visionaries states that separately in writing.
Parent progress briefings
What parents can see
Families do not have to guess whether the student is learning. The Fellowship turns simulation practice into practical progress notes that show effort, reasoning, and the next business decision to improve.
Effort evidence
Parents can see practical learning evidence such as simulation activity, reflection prompts, revised choices, and review summaries.
Decision rationale
Students explain what changed, why they chose a move, and what they will test next after seeing pricing, inventory, cash, and service consequences.
Next session focus
Reviews point students toward one practical focus for the next run, such as setting a hypothesis or watching a business constraint.
Parent briefings are designed to show effort, reasoning, and next steps, not to certify business ability or predict future outcomes.