REA
Raw Entrepreneur Academy
Online Entrepreneurship Classes for Arkansas Homeschool Teens
This hands-on program for homeschool teens ages 14–18, available to Arkansas families and students across the country. Build real business ideas, practice sales and pitch to a live panel through interactive online classes.
See What's Next
Entrepreneur Foundations begins in January 2027. We will walk through a simple framework of how to develop a business from the ground up. Each student will have to create a business plan and pick a path they want to develop. Either a service or a product.
Give Your Teen a Head Start Most Adults Never Get
- Ask about EFA (Pending) payment requirements
- Builds confidence, communication, and money skills
- Counts as educational enrichment for transcripts
- Built and Taught by Real Entrepreneurs
- A safe environment to learn how to handle failure and success
This Isn't School. This Is Real Life.
- Launch a real business idea from scratch
- Pitch like Shark Tank in front of a live audience
- Compete to win real start-up supplies
- Work with other motivated, ambitious teens
- Build something that actually matters
The "Entrepreneur Foundations" Blueprint
A proven framework to take them from an idea for a product or service to pitch.
Idea Creation + Validation
Discover problems worth solving and confirm people actually want the solution. Develop or refine a real product or service.
Attract the Right Clients
Brand the business, build an identity, and capture attention through websites, ads, and word of mouth. Build a real lead capture system.
Understanding Advertising, Markingting and Sales
The art of the sell. Pricing strategies, handling objections, and closing deals with confidence. How Supply and Demand dictate the market.
Building + Refining
Operations, legal basics, and polishing the product or service for the real world. Deliver a 5-star experience.
Final Pitch Competition
Present to a live panel of judges and parents. The ultimate test of courage, confidence, and communication.
Are they ready for Pitch Night?
Watch them stand up, present their vision, and answer tough questions with confidence.
Event is Live online
Built by an Entrepreneur
Caleb Irmler
Founder, Raw Entrepreneur
Caleb started working at 12 as a paperboy. As an adult, with no money, no mentor, and no map. No silver spoon, just plastic forks. Just kidding, he could not afford plastic forks.
His headquarters? A garage. His office desk? An ironing board. His equipment? An old laptop, a $29 printer, and a $4,000 truck.
Within a few years, that garage was producing over $50,000 a month before he ever got an office.
He continued growing the business, acquired two other pest control companies, and ultimately sold it to a publicly traded company.
He is now an advisor to 60+ businesses.
If he could go back in time and have a conversation with his younger self, this class would be that conversation.
"That's why he founded Raw Entrepreneur Academy to teach what school doesn't: how to actually start, scale, and exit a business."
Pitch Your Business for Real Incentive
Your teen will pitch their business idea to a panel of judges and compete for real start up supplies.
Brand New iPad
The top pitcher takes home a brand new iPad to run their business from day one.
Free Custom Uniform Shirts
Premium custom shirts featuring your business logo. Look the part from day one.
Custom Hat
Every student who pitches walks away with a custom hat printed with their own business logo.
Full Advertising Kit
1,000 postcards and 1,000 business cards. Everything you need to start marketing on day one.
Prizes awarded at the Final Pitch Night. Only enrolled students who complete the program are eligible to pitch.
Apply for the Jan 2027 Program
Full and Partial ($500 ) Scholarship Available
Full Program Tuition
$1,297
Payment Plan
4 Payments of $324
Arkansas homeschool families: considering EFA (Pending) funds?
Arkansas Education Freedom Accounts cover approved educational expenses for participating students. REA’s state provider approval for this course is pending. Before paying, confirm your student’s participation, this course’s current provider and expense approval, and the payment process with REA and the state program. Funding is not guaranteed.
Official Arkansas EFA guidance (REA provider approval pending)We also have Payment Plans and Scholarships Available.
Frequently Asked Questions
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