Advance Strategies Group
Entrepreneurship Education

Founder education built on two decades of applied pedagogy.

FounderForge™ · Cohort Program

An entrepreneurship pedagogy developed by Adriano Salvador since 2005 in the Cria Brasil Program, refined over two decades of applied practice, and operationalized into platform modules 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 founder-cohort adaptation. These conversations are consistent with the platform's applied entrepreneurship pedagogy first developed in the 2005 Cria Brasil Program and refined over two decades of institutional application.

Live founder cohort
55
Utah entrepreneurs community
Founder serves as elected Regional President of BH2, applying the CRIAR methodology 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.

25,000+
Students served
Across the eight-faculty higher-education network under prior coordination.
IGC = 5
Institutional quality score
Maximum score on directed campuses (Brazilian Ministry of Education).
300 → 1,700
Enrollment lift
At one institution over one operating 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 Program I co-created in 2005 with Prof. Adonai Lacruz at IBEV. Two decades later, the same core pedagogy runs founder cohorts on this platform in the United States.
— Adriano Salvador, Founder & Chief Executive

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