Course Structure

Elite Entrepreneur School offers a structured, immersive entrepreneurial journey that takes you from idea stage to operational, investable businesses.

This is not just classroom learning. This is business building.

You’re not just a number, we know you by name.

Programme Structure

Elite Entrepreneur School is designed as a structured, hands-on journey that develops both the entrepreneur and the business. The programme is deliberately split into three complementary phases to ensure long-term sustainability and investment readiness.

Month 1-4: Build the Entrepreneur,

Build the Business

Phase 1 and 2 run in parallel

Phase 1: Upskill and Educate the Entrepreneur

Duration: 4 Months (NQF level 5 accreditation 10 months = 1st year university)

This phase focuses on building the entrepreneur before building the business. Strong businesses are built by disciplined, self-aware and capable leaders, and this phase lays that foundation.

Core Focus Areas

Mind and Soft Skills

Mental frameworks for leadership, resilience, negotiation, and communication.

Entrepreneurial Habits

Daily, weekly and monthly disciplines for consistency and accountability.

Financial Literacy

Practical understanding of money, pricing, cash flow and financial decision-making.

Purpose and Values

Identifying purpose, long-term vision and legacy creation.

Physical Wellbeing

Guidance on nutrition, exercise and physical discipline.

Phase 2: Business Builder™

Duration: 4 Months (Done in parallel with Phase 1)

While the entrepreneur is being developed with Phase 1, simultaneously the entrepreneur will be building their business through the Business Builder. This phase focuses on the business and helps build the foundations of a sustainable long lasting business that adds value.

Core Focus Areas

Business Setup and Compliance

Company registration, SARS, legal structures, POPI compliance

Product or Service Development

Market research, validation, sourcing, pricing and positioning

Operations and Systems

Accounting, HR, supply chain, operating rhythms

Sales and Customers

Lead generation, marketing, customer acquisition, market penetration

Learning Approach

We teach entrepreneurs practical, real-world applications. These include opening their PTY legal entity, sourcing their products, getting market insight, working out their product margins and operational break-evens and building out their budgets and forecasts, which are all practical tasks that help them build their business.

The outcome of this phase is to have the business foundation in place so that the entrepreneurs can spend the following 12 months doing business, making deals, selling and growing.

Month 5-16:

Go and Grow Your Business

Phase 3: Operating the Business

Once the entrepreneurial foundation is in place, the focus shifts to operating the business. This is where the service providers start operating and assisting the entrepreneur with their respective services on a monthly ongoing basis.

What to Expect

Support Structure - YOU ARE NOT ALONE

Entrepreneurs are supported by a comprehensive ecosystem designed to remove common failure points.

Support includes (12 months FREE for all of the below):

Business Coaches

Strategic guidance, accountability and quarterly goal tracking.

Operational Service Providers

Strategic guidance, accountability and quarterly goal tracking.

Business Network Organisation

Expanded networks, partnerships and market access.

Media Exposure

Selected journeys may be documented for broadcast or streaming, driving traction and visibility.

Investor Support

Investor portals, performance tracking and structured investment processes.

Month 17:

Graduation &
Investor Readiness

Graduation is when a business is compliant, operational and scalable built to attract long-term investment.

After 12 months of active trading, we graduate the entrepreneurs through the Investor day.

The day has 2 parts to it.

Part 1: For businesses that already have investors that were acquired through the 16 months

Part 2: For businesses that don’t have investors yet, we either value the businesses or there will be an investor pitch potential/reveal.

Both Part 1 and 2 values will be combined to show how much value the EEs way of doing business has created.

Investor Day

Each business is presented to the EES investor network, where investors can review performance, engage with founders and submit bids or funding offers.

Ongoing Growth and Expansion

Once a business is stable locally, EES supports:

Programme Outcome

By the end of the programme, entrepreneurs do not leave with just a certificate. They leave with:

A fully operational business

Market access and traction

A long-term support network

Structured financial reporting

Investor visibility