Ideas start at SQUARE1.

SQUARE1 is a nonprofit entrepreneur education and business startup support organization providing resources to a broad range of individuals interested in turning ideas and research into scalable businesses. Our mission is to uncover, educate, support, and inspire divergent entrepreneurs. Our programs break through barriers. The VELOCITY program focused on continuing the momentum formed by minority businesses by introducing them to new sales opportunities and connections to help them grow that Network. With IGNITION we help those that don't quite fit the mold for an accelerator or a venture back of a company, but have the potential to be a significant job and wealth creation. With SQUARE1ON1 we join the team becoming a key contributor to the key operations of a startup. Through our Startup Scholars program, we help students look at life from an entrepreneurial perspective and hopefully form a business. We teach them opportunity recognition presentation skills business planning; along the way building their confidence and show them a path in their career that they could take weather it's soon or later. We believe everybody deserves an opportunity no matter what doors have already been opened for them or what groups they run with no matter ethnicity, gender, age, or religion. That's our passion and the drive behind SQUARE1.