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Where are You headed in tech?

Build tech-business expertise with Prof, navigate the founder's journey with Sherpa, and get ready to raise with Sandy.

ProfPROFYour Tutor

Business School Enrollment

Learn the business and law behind the tech
  • The full course catalog, self-paced, Silicon Valley style
  • The Knowledgebase, hosted by Prof
  • Prof — your on-demand AI tutor, around the clock
  • The Silicon Valley Business School Certified Tech Entrepreneur certificate program
  • Alfie customer-service support
$50 / month
Study with Prof
Per person — covers you across every startup you run
SherpaSHERPAYour Guide

Milestone Progress Enrollment

Map the milestones. Watch the momentum.
  • Sherpa — startup guidance from seed through to exit or listing
  • Milestone mapping and your live Momentum Score
  • Early warning while there is still time to act
  • Stakeholder access you grant to investors and advisors
$100 / month
Climb with Sherpa
Per startup. Requires Business School Enrollment — $150/month in total for one startup
SandySANDYYour Investor

Startup Funding Program Enrollment

Prepare to raise — then reach real investors
  • Structured funding preparation across the required courses
  • The artifacts, the marking guides, and a graduation standard published in full
  • Mock investor pitches with Sandy — revise and re-pitch as many times as you need
  • Verified milestones and a Momentum Score investors can follow
  • Graduate as a Silicon Valley Business School Graduated Startup, with a place in the Graduate Pitch Panel
$100 / month
Explore the Program
Per startup. Requires Business School and Milestone Progress Enrollment — $250/month in total for one startup

Investor or board member? Stakeholder access is free, and it is granted by the founder — a viewer's seat on that startup's milestones and live Momentum Score.

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What is SVBS

The next-generation business school for entrepreneurs and tech professionals

Silicon Valley Business School is an online business school and startup-success platform, open and accessible to everyone, everywhere. No application. No cohort. No waiting list. Create an account and start. Every course is written for the tech sector, so nothing has to be translated — and that is a specialization, not a boundary: the law, finance and governance material is what any manager needs, taught with tech-sector examples rather than generic ones. Tech professionals sharpening their expertise, founders building a startup, executives who need the specifics rather than the survey, and the investors and advisors who back them all belong here.

Business School Enrollment opens the course catalog and the Knowledgebase, with Prof as your tutor throughout — ask a question on any video, article or template and get a plain-English answer. It carries the Silicon Valley Business School Certified Tech Entrepreneur certificate program: a defined path through the catalog, ending in a certificate you hold for life. Add Milestone Progress Enrollment for a startup and Sherpa maps its milestones and tracks its Momentum Score stage by stage, guided by the 7-Point Travel Plan and a defined milestone set that runs from seed through to exit or listing. Add the Startup Funding Program and Sandy critiques your funding materials against published marking guides, then runs mock investor pitches until you are ready for the room.

What that builds toward is verifiable, and that is the point. A live Momentum Score and verified milestones an investor can follow in real time. A graduation standard published in full and applied identically to everyone. For startups that meet it, the status of Silicon Valley Business School Graduated Startup and a place in the Graduate Pitch Panel. Approved investors join the SVBS Startup Investor Network and are enrolled in the Investor Hub, where they browse graduates by sector, stage and round size and request Stakeholder access directly from the founder. And the VR Conference Center hosts webinars, investor Q&A and networking, from any browser. Wherever you are starting — a first course, or a climb toward an acquisition or an IPO — SVBS meets you there.

Hosted by Prof

The Knowledgebase

A curated, premium library mapped to the startup journey — so the right resource meets you at the right stage of the climb.

Prof Prof has the answersASK ANYTHING · 24/7

Every resource comes with Prof built in. Ask a question on any video, article, or template and get an instant, plain-English explanation — academic depth without the jargon. The library is continuously expanded to stay current with the tech sector, and cross-references related courses and topics so one question opens the next door.

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VideosExpert-selected, including the Silicon Valley Trends Podcast
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Articles & PDFsCurated third-party reading and reference books
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AudioRecordings and podcasts for learning on the move
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TemplatesReal-world legal and business documents you can reuse
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