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StartUp TradeUp bridges the gap between education and the real world by providing opportunities to experience, develop, and enhance entrepreneurial skills.
Complete curriculum for teachers, students and industry partners
Virtual Training
Deskside Support Package
In-Person Training
Professional Development and Keynote Speaking
Implementation and Consulting Services
Why StartUp TradeUp
Entrepreneurship Education
44% of the US economy is accounted for by small businesses
Reskilling Necessary
Major Changes
Booming Entrepreneurship
Our Team
Emily Kilgore
Children cannot be what they cannot see. Driven by this philosophy, Emily Kilgore has spent her seventeen-year teaching career in the pursuit of inspiring young people by creating hands-on, experiences-based classrooms deeply rooted in partnerships with businesses in the region.
Nadia Mullin
From her initial role as a Project Manager at an education management organization, transitioning into ESOL education, and eventually immersing herself into business brokerage, Nadia has cultivated a unique variety of experiences that uniquely position her to drive changes in entrepreneurship education and workforce development.
Our Offerings
Building Partnerships
Relationships are the cornerstone of experiential and work based learning experiences, which provide opportunities to learn and develop entrepreneurial skills. We can build new relationships, enhance existing ones and make management and sustainment of these critical partnerships easy.
Developing Curriculum
We will identify the right entrepreneurial curriculum/program and support for your goals, whether it’s something we’ve developed or not.
Training and Professional Development
Custom Services
If you’re not sure where to start, we can help. This may include creating custom curriculum and programs. It could also include identifying pockets of excellence/opportunities for improvement in your existing organization and then developing and implementing a plan for improvement, enhancement, and/or expansion of those pockets and opportunities.
Turn-Key Offerings
Simplifying and automating learning so that you can have your time back immediately.
Immediate Results
Whether you’re looking to maximize existing relationships or build new ones, we can help!
A Team Who Cares
We built StartUp TradeUp to help you achieve your goals and our team is here to support your efforts.
Children Cannot Be What They Cannot See
It is critical that students explore career paths and opportunities from many different angles.
