Entrepreneurship Education

Founder education built on more than two decades of applied pedagogy.

FounderForge · Cohort Program

An entrepreneurship pedagogy authored by Adriano Salvador in 2005 as the CRIA Brasil method — refined across more than 20 years of applied educational-management practice, within more than 30 years of professional leadership — and codified into the CRIAR Framework operationalized across founder cohorts.

Serving organizations across the United States · Bilingual English / Spanish delivery · Operated by Advance4edu LLC (Advance Strategies Group)

Sub-service portfolio

What we deliver.

Small business momentum

Early-stage founder support and momentum building.

Entrepreneurship pedagogy

Structured founder curricula grounded in the CRIAR Framework.

Marketing and sales advantage

Applied go-to-market pedagogy for founders.

U.S. institutional prospect

The platform is currently in dialogue with U.S. entrepreneurship-education organizations — including K-12 and community-college initiatives in Utah — to evaluate CRIAR Framework founder-cohort adaptation. These conversations are consistent with the platform's applied entrepreneurship pedagogy, which codifies the CRIA Brasil method authored in 2005 and refined across more than 20 years of applied educational-management practice, within more than 30 years of professional leadership.

Documented outcomes · consultative engagements

300 → 1,700+

Student growth at a Brazilian basic-education institution under consultative direction

Documented outcome from a long-standing consultative engagement since 2010, delivery through Advance4edu LLC since 2024. Asset base growth approximately eight-fold over the same period.

2,000 concurrent · 6,000 cumulative

Students reached by the CRIA Brasil method

Method authored by Adriano Salvador and applied for three consecutive years (2005-2008) across four schools of a Brazilian basic-education network in Espírito Santo — approximately 2,000 students per year and roughly 6,000 cumulative over the three-year application.

Utah entrepreneurs community

Founder serves as elected Regional President of BH2, applying the CRIAR Framework operationalized in the platform.

Historical track record

By the numbers.

Documented outcomes from entrepreneurship programs that informed the founder pedagogy now operating in the platform.

14,000+

Students served

Coordinated across five campuses of an accredited multi-campus college system with a team of twelve directly reporting coordinators.

4 × IGC 5 · 1 × IGC 4

Five campuses under prior direction

Four campuses rated IGC 5 and one rated IGC 4 under the Brazilian Ministry of Education; Cachoeiro do Itapemirim campus at IGC = 5 during the 2014-2016 cycle.

17% → 7%

Dropout reduction

Across an institutional network under coordinated methodology.

FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE

The entrepreneurship vertical is the direct evolution of the CRIA Brasil method I authored in 2005 and applied for three consecutive years across four schools of a Brazilian basic-education network in Espírito Santo. More than 20 years later, the same core pedagogy — now codified in the CRIAR Framework — runs founder cohorts on this platform in the United States.

— Adriano Salvador, Founder & Chief Executive

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