Milestone Progress Enrollment · Your AI Startup Guide
Your startup has a destination. Sherpa knows the route.
Name where you are going, plot the milestones that get you there, and watch your Momentum Score move as you hit them. Sherpa is your AI guide for the whole climb — seed to exit — available whenever you need it, wherever you are.
Enroll & Meet Sherpa →Milestone Progress Enrollment is $100/month per startup and requires an active Business School Enrollment at $50/month per person — $150/month for one startup. No application, no cohort, and no equity.
Why a Guide
Different startups have different summits
Some startups are climbing toward an IPO — a long, demanding ascent. Others are moving toward acquisition, building the assets a larger company will want. Others are heading for sustainable profitability and no exit at all. Each path needs different preparation, different skills, and different milestones, which is why naming your destination first is what makes every decision after it coherent.
Sherpa breaks the climb into stages, plots the route to the destination you choose, and stays with you the whole way. The funding round is a waypoint on that route, not the end of it — the guidance continues through seed, early and expansion stages and on to exit or listing.
Sherpa · The Guide Who Knows Your Startup
Silicon Valley-caliber guidance, personalized to you
Sherpa is more than a chatbot. It draws on the full SVBS Knowledgebase and the Sherpa methodology to give guidance tuned to your industry, business model, team, and current stage — not generic tips. It recognizes the patterns that show up across thousands of startups, flags likely obstacles while there is still time to act, and brings you the insight you need at the moment you need it.
Sherpa never has a bad day, never plays favorites, and never forgets your startup between sessions — elite startup guidance available to founders anywhere, regardless of geography or existing network.
Get Sherpa →The Framework
Your 7-Point Travel Plan
Sherpa runs on the expedition-planning framework behind the Sherpa methodology — the decisions that turn a daunting climb into a route you can actually follow.
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Target Your Destination
IPO, acquisition, or sustainable profitability — this first choice shapes every strategic decision that follows.
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Pick Your Team
Founders, executives, employees, and advisors committed to this destination.
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Plot Your Course
Map the critical milestones and the likely obstacles against the resources, market conditions, and competition you actually face.
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Gather Your Provisions
Funding, talent, technology, infrastructure — enough to reach the next milestone before the current supplies run out.
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Maintain Momentum
Achieve meaningful advancement, mark the wins, and communicate progress to your team, advisors, and investors.
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Take Your Bearings
Periodic honest assessment against your milestones, including whether a pivot is now the right call.
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Prepare for Contingencies
Plan for the predictable problems and stay flexible enough for the surprises every expedition meets.
Milestone Progress
See your momentum, stage by stage
Milestone Progress turns the journey into something you can measure — replacing gut feel with a live, shared picture of where your startup stands today.
Plot a clear course from where you are today to your target destination, broken into discrete checkpoints across every stage from seed to exit.
Quantitative progress against each objective, so where you stand is fact rather than feeling.
A live score across Financial Performance, Milestone Progress, and Market Growth & Buzz — the forces actually propelling your startup, on one gauge.
Problems surfaced while there is still time to act, so small issues never become the ones that end the climb.
Every milestone and every momentum update kept on the record, so the trajectory is visible and not just the current position.
Give an investor, board member, or advisor free view-only access to your milestones and live Momentum Score. You decide who sees it, and you can withdraw it.
Enroll
Sherpa comes with Milestone Progress Enrollment
Three separate enrollments, and you take the ones you need. Business School Enrollment covers you as a person. The other two are priced per startup, so a founder running two startups carries two of each.
Business School Enrollment
$50 / month per person
- The full course catalog, self-paced
- Prof, your AI course tutor
- The SVBS Knowledgebase
- The Silicon Valley Business School Certified Tech Entrepreneur certificate program
- No application. Enroll and start.
Milestone Progress Enrollment
$100 / month per startup
- Sherpa, your AI startup guide
- Milestones across every stage, seed to exit
- Your live Momentum Score and full history
- Free Stakeholder access, granted by you
- Requires an active Business School Enrollment
Startup Funding Program Enrollment
$100 / month per startup
- Sandy, your AI startup funding guide
- The investor-facing artifacts, each marked against a published guide
- Consistency Audit and Mock Investor Pitch
- Graduate to become an SVBS Graduated Startup
- Requires active Business School and Milestone Progress Enrollments
Business School Enrollment plus Milestone Progress Enrollment is $150/month for one startup. Adding the Startup Funding Program brings that to $250/month. The two startup-scoped enrollments multiply by startup, so two startups in the full program is $450/month. Stakeholder access is always free, and it is granted by the founder, never by SVBS. No equity, ever.
Also Included
The courses behind each leg of the climb
Sherpa turns the methodology into your route. Your Business School Enrollment — which Milestone Progress requires — carries the course catalog that goes deep on the decisions the route puts in front of you:
Ready for the Climb?
Start your ascent with Sherpa today
Enroll in Milestone Progress and Sherpa starts mapping your route — destination, milestones, and momentum — alongside the course catalog and Prof, your AI tutor.
Enroll Now →No application · No cohort · No equity · Stakeholder access is free and you grant it