Dreams to Dollars
Business Launch Academy

Have a business idea but don’t know how to get started? Need help transferring your skills into a viable business? Having a hard time in your first few years of business launch? Dreams to Dollars: Business Launch Academy strives to help idea stage and early stage entrepreneurs in starting viable business ventures. This program specifically focuses on helping entrepreneurs develop practical skills, access tools and technology that can immediately be put into action to start a new company, build structure around a side hustle, or get a new company accelerating forward.

Dreams to Dollars is a five week program, with workshops hosted virtually, twice a week and the program concluding with an in-person one day session and graduation on a local campus. Local sites include Houston (Texas Southern), Atlanta (Clark Atlanta University), and DMV (Howard University).

FALL 2025 PROGRAM DETAILS

Dates: October 27th-December 3rd
(Meetings Virtually each Monday & Wednesday, 6:30 pm-7:30 pm)

Business Qualifications and Eligibility

  • 0 to 2 years in business
  • < $50,000 in annual revenue

Program Topics

  • Business Model Overview
  • Understanding Your Customer
  • Communicating with Customers
  • Building Community Through Digital Marketing
  • Tools & Technology: Creating Effective Content
  • Tools & Technology: Building Workflows with AI
  • Knowing Your Numbers: Costs & Cash Flow Management
  • Accounting Statements & Systems
  • Sources of Funding
  • Business Structures & Legal Considerations
  • Steps to Officially Launch Your Business