Entrepreneurship
Build Your Business is Gentlemen’s Factory’s entrepreneurship cohort — an 8-week program designed for founders and aspiring entrepreneurs who want greater clarity around their customer, product, revenue model, sales process, operations and growth strategy.
Stop treating your business like a side project.
Founders and aspiring entrepreneurs — whether you’re validating a first idea or trying to get an existing business out of side-project mode.
Why this cohort exists
Most founders are operating on instinct, working nights and weekends without a peer group who understands the specific pressure of building a business while holding down everything else in life.
Specific outcomes, not just conversation.
- A sharper, more defensible business model
- Clear priorities for your customer, product, revenue and growth strategy
- A peer group of other Black entrepreneurs building real businesses
- A personal 90-day action plan for your business
How the Entrepreneurship cohort is structured.
Every cohort begins with a question: what are you trying to change? From there, participants establish a baseline, define a goal and work through the behaviors, decisions and systems required to move forward.
The Experience
- A dedicated facilitator responsible for guiding the group
- Subject matter experts who bring specialized knowledge into the room
- Conversations with other men navigating similar challenges
- Practical assignments completed between sessions
- Real accountability, and a way to measure your progress
- A concrete 90-day development plan at the end
Format: 8-week cohort · up to 20 men · $1,250 investment · sessions held virtually · concludes with a personal 90-day action plan. Cohorts are formed on a rolling basis as applications are reviewed — apply to be matched with the next available group.
Development should have a process.
Apply
Tell us what you want to work on and why this moment matters.
Get Matched
If Entrepreneurship is the right fit, you'll receive an invitation to enroll.
Establish Your Baseline
Before Week One, you'll complete an assessment that establishes where you're starting.
Do The Work
Eight weeks of structured facilitated sessions, expert conversations, assignments and peer accountability.
Build Your 90-Day Plan
Your final weeks focus on translating insight into action.
Continue
Graduation isn't the end — participants join the broader GF alumni and global community.
Common questions about Entrepreneurship.
How does a Gentlemen's Factory cohort work?
Each cohort runs 8 weeks with up to 20 men. You apply, get matched, complete a baseline assessment, then work through structured facilitated sessions, expert conversations, assignments and peer accountability before building a personal 90-day action plan.
What does the $1,250 investment include?
A structured curriculum, a skilled facilitator, access to subject matter experts, a carefully selected peer group, tools and exercises, assessments, accountability, a development plan, and entry into the broader GF alumni community after the program.
When does the Entrepreneurship cohort start?
Cohorts are formed on a rolling basis as applications are reviewed. Apply to be matched with the next available group.
I don’t have a business yet — can I still apply?
Yes. The cohort includes both aspiring entrepreneurs still validating an idea and founders with an existing business they want to sharpen.
Entrepreneurship is one part of Gentlemen's Factory's Human Development framework — mapped most directly to the Wealth & Economic Mobility pillar of the whole man.