What is SEAP?
Why work for someone else?
What is SEAP? The Self Employment Assistance Program enables individuals receiving unemployment benefits to take certain approved entrepreneur training classes, like Idea to Launch, so that you can collect unemployment benefits and spend time planning and starting a business rather than searching for a job.
Can I take ANY class?
Not all entrepreneurship classes are equally awesome. Some classes you find online might sound great, but may not have all the tools you need to become a successful entrepreneur and start an actual income-generating business. Be sure to select a certified program that is offered by an approved training provider, like us.
Which class is right for me?
Idea to Launch On-Demand is your “How to start a business in a box” without the box. Our textbook, Entrepreneurial Edge Small Business Toolkit, includes guides covering all 20 Core Business Principles, the keys to your startup and personal success as a future entrepreneur.
Each of our classes use the Small Business Toolkit. This ensures that you get access to each of the Core Business Principles along with tools and strategies to help you plan and start the business of your dreams.
What makes your SEAP-certified classes Unique?
We teach you from real world experience - and lots of it! Your trainer and coach is a former award-winning US Small Business Administration Business Center Director. This means she trained, coached and mentored over 1,200 entrepreneurs annually. You benefit from other entrepreneurs’ best practices — and the near misses too.
After college, where she earned a BA in Entrepreneurship and an MBA in Information Systems Design, your trainer hand picked her first boss; A serial entrepreneur who had taken 2 - yes two - companies public. As first employee of the third company he took public, she shares with you his secret sauce for planning and launching a successful new venture - OPA (Other People’s Assets - one of the 10 Keys to Success in each of our classes).
Our classes are proven, practical and actionable. We bring you the best ideation tools, the best (in our opinion) Executive Business Plan (a one-pager used to successfully secure millions in angel and venture funding), and startup strategies to launch and generate income in record time.
Oh, and before launching this training company, our founder vetted her entrepreneur training tools, strategies, and methods by thousands of peers and leaders in the field of business incubation, or the Art of the Start, at conferences around the world. She wanted to make sure the complex tools and strategies you need to succeed in business were made simple enough for a newby - before publishing them in the Entrepreneurial Edge Small Business Toolkit and creating the SEAP-certified classes.
Empowering Entrepreneurs - Like You
Whichever of the Girandola classes you select, we are your “guides on the side” sharing step-by-step how to launch a business without wasting money. We teach you how to design an income generating product-based or service-focused business in five simple steps. And, for those of you with too many ideas to know where to start, we give you the QuickPlan - a simple one-page tool to help you get and stay focused. We cover ALL the basis.