Next cohort—January 2027
Online Postgraduate in Entrepreneurship
A 1.5-year online entrepreneurship program for people who want to sharpen their judgment, make better business decisions, and learn alongside a serious community of entrepreneurs from around the world.
1.5
years
LIVE + ASYNCHRONOUS
flexible, accountable learning
SOCRATIC DISCUSSIONS
live case debate and decision-making
MADRID
Venture Quest + Pitch Competition
Learn to make the call when there is no answer key
You prepare before class, enter Socratic discussions, test your reasoning with peers, and apply the work to a real venture. There are no answer keys in entrepreneurship. Acton trains you to make the call anyway.
This is for you if
You are building, leading, or preparing to launch something of your own.
You want rigorous business training without putting your work or life on hold.
You want a serious room of mavericks and guides who will challenge the way you think.
Not for you if
You want a passive online course you can watch in the background.
You cannot commit to preparation and live discussion.
You want the credential more than the work.
Your Journey at Acton
Acton takes you through three stages designed to build your business fluency, sharpen your entrepreneurial judgment, and ultimately put both to work on a venture of your own.
01 / Entrepreneurs Toolkit
Build business fluency
Develop the financial, operational, and strategic fluency to understand what is happening inside a business, recognize what matters, and walk into every discussion ready to make stronger decisions.
Online—Independent work
02 / Entrepreneurial Journey
Make the decision
Step into real business cases and make the decisions entrepreneurs normally take years to face. With incomplete information and no answer key, you take a position, defend it in a live Socratic discussion, and let your peers and guides pressure-test the way you think.
Live online—Socratic case discussions
03 / Venture Quest
Put it to work
Apply everything you have learned to a venture of your own, from testing the opportunity and talking to customers to working through the economics and refining the model, then bring it to Madrid and defend it at the final Pitch Competition.
Madrid—Pitch Competition
Next cohort begins January 2027
Start with the
Right Conversation
If you are considering joining the January 2027 cohort, speak with the Acton team. We’ll learn more about where you are, what you are building, and whether the Online Entrepreneurship Program is the right next step.
FAQ
The practical questions people ask before joining the Online Entrepreneurship Program.
The program is designed for entrepreneurs, operators, and aspiring founders who want to get better at making the decisions required to build and lead a business.