Program Data

The Make Startups Program tracks multiple data points to monitor program performance, entrepreneur outcomes, and community and economic impacts. We use this data to work with financial institutions to maintain assessment quality and make capital access vehicles available for program graduates, and to provide financial aid providers with performance metrics.

Student Qualification

About 24% of students accepted into Make Startups programs received financial assistance through workforce development and veteran aid programs in 2021.

Student Demographics

Make Startups programs are designed to remove barriers for disadvantaged entrepreneurs. Our 2021 students included 100% Entrepreneurs of color, 83% women Led Businesses, and 25% Veteran Entrepreneurs.

100% Business License Attainment Rate

A key aspect of the Make Startups program is working on an actual business, not just business theory. Business License attainment is required for graduation, and 100% of our students in 2021 succeeded in getting a license for their business.

Average Entrepreneur Time to Revenue

The first step to employment and wages is customer attainment. Make Startups programs prioritize quickly finding market fit and establishing early revenues to avoid unnecessary debt. over 80% of entrepreneurs reported revenue within 6 months of class start.

Entrepreneur success

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Roxeann Cobb - Making Dreams a Reality

“I give Make Startups credit for making my dream a reality,” says Cobb.

Frederick Griffin - Ebony Tree Farms

“It all comes back to food.”

Arkia Ivey

“Make Startups reinforced what I knew was possible. It’s reassurance, ‘No, you’re not crazy, girl, you’re not dreaming too big.’ It reminds me it’s all possible.”

Tonia Gibbons

“I truly recommend anyone who is serious about starting a business to invest in themselves first by taking this course”

Kala Evans

“Before, I might not have understood something, but I was too embarrassed to ask. The Make Startups environment made me feel safe enough to be vulnerable.”

Shirlonda Evans

“Make Startups gave me confidence. It helped me to understand business, and not to be afraid to take the money.”

Jocelyn Richard

“I didn’t know how to create a real, sustainable business out of my passion.”

Natashia Bobbitt

“The problem Make Startups solved for me was the confidence and ability to start my business and get my first client,”

How Many Disadvantaged Entrepreneurs are in your community?*

*Calculator combines current state and county level data on poverty, unemployment, and entrepreneurship data from Census, BLS, and the Kauffman Foundation respectively to estimate the number of entrepreneurs and impacts of support based on average survivability and job creation rates by region.