MVN4

A 3-week intensive bootcamp designed by Wes Kao, co-founder of Maven and the altMBA  

You will apply a step-by-step method for building your curriculum, designing the structure, and attracting students. With hands-on projects, community, and accountability, you will be ready to launch a pilot of your course in 3 weeks.

Our interactive and project-based workshops are led by seasoned Maven instructors. You'll get support from experienced coaches and meet like-minded creators who will help you bring your course to life.

Turn your ideas into course content​: We’ll teach you a simple approach to build a high quality curriculum week by week.

Stay on track with projects and milestones: Without guidance, building a cohort-based course can take 5-6 months on your own. We’ve spent hundreds of hours turning chaos into order with frameworks, models, exercises, and relevant case studies to help you ship and iterate quickly. No quizzes, abstract theory, or busywork.

Get personalized feedback from a diverse group of peers and experienced Maven coaches: With plenty of opportunities to practice and test, you can be confident your course will be ready for real students.

Construct a course that's uniquely yours: Decide on price, length, and other factors that maximize value for your students and for you.

Create a premium asset that grows in value over time: Your course can evolve into a vibrant community that increases your impact.

Design interactive and project-driven workshops: You will learn to earn back your students' wandering attention with the State Change Method, a strategy that is built for restless online audiences. You'll design active learning experiences that encourage your students to learn from each other and learn by doing.


You’re the go-to person in your field. You’re ready to increase your public presence and share your knowledge.

You’re used to creating content (podcasts, Twitter, newsletters). You want to build a highly leveraged, premium product like a cohort-based course.

You teach self-paced courses or run small workshops. You're still new to cohort-based courses and open to exploring new formats. 

Wes is co-founder of Maven. Previously, she was the co-founder of the altMBA with Seth Godin, growing the altMBA to thousands of alumni in 550 cities in 45 countries and creating the cohort-based course category. She has built courses for Professor Galloway (Section4), David Perell, Tiago Forte, Outlier.org (by the co-founder of Masterclass), Morning Brew, and more.

David Perell, Founder of Write of Passage

Gagan Biyani, CEO and Co-founder of Maven

Heather Payne, CEO and Founder of Juno College

Jay Clouse, Community Experience Director at SPI

By the end of this program, you will launch a pilot of your cohort-based course and deliver an exceptional learning experience using Maven’s proprietary approach.

Everything you learn will be put into practice. Every workshop is designed to help you hit milestones and ship content.

You’ll build and learn alongside a curated group of instructors. Past instructors include Li Jin, Lenny Rachitsky, Anthony Pompliano, Greg Isenberg, Heather Payne, Pat Flynn, Julian Shapiro, and more.

Projects, coaches, and peers will keep you accountable and help you get unstuck.

You’ll learn how to achieve course-market fit, attract the right type of students, and promote your course even if you have a small audience. 

Tuesdays and Thursdays 10am-12pm PT / 1-3pm ET.

Building and teaching my cohort-based course was an incredibly rewarding experience. By focusing on this topic so deeply, I discovered completely new insights. I would wake up in the middle of the night with an original idea and need to jot it down to include in one of my workshops. Building the course actually pushed my thinking further and deepened my own expertise.

I thought going into this program would teach me how to build the best possible cohort-based course. It did that and way more. It helped me become a better entrepreneur, teacher and student. Incredible experience.

Maven Course Accelerator is magic. I started without a word on paper, and 12 days later my course had come alive. I've been grateful to work hand-in-hand with a cohort of people I admire, and I'm amazed every day by how well the program is run. I'm excited to bring a new course into the world, and I wouldn't have been able to do it without this experience!

SPI has sold over $4 million in online courses since 2016. The industry has grown and changed a lot over these years. Cohort-based courses are the next major innovation in this industry without question. 

Maven Course Accelerator was a game changer for us. In only a few weeks, our team learned the insider techniques that the very best creators use to design in-demand CBCs. This training has dramatically improved our curriculum design, market-fit, pricing, scalability, and more.

Designing my course with Maven was a transformative experience. Before Maven Course Accelerator, I had my content neatly laid out and thought I was ready to go. Throughout the program, I discovered new ways to communicate my material and engage my students. My course will be 10x because because of what I learned through Maven. If you’re considering teaching a cohort-based course, do it.

In less than 8 weeks, what was a mere fantasy in my head achieved fruition. My course is going to live on forever now, achieving a greater impact with every cohort.

I could not have imagined this to happen without Maven’s resources and guidance in the form of actionable content, incredible coaches, and an ambitious set of peers who all had a similar vision.

I understood the value of learning in a cohort before, but now I actually believe in it. 

Creator of Mind Like Water and APM @ Salesforce

Creating and teaching my course was one of the most fulfilling experiences of my life. And I legitimately would not have been able to pull it off without the Maven team teaching me how to...teach.

Writer, Investor, and former Growth PM @ Airbnb

Cohort-based courses combine live workshops, videos, articles, and projects to create impactful learning experiences. You participate, learn, and collaborate with other students throughout the course. It’s common for students to stay connected long after the course ends.

That’s up to you! Some instructors choose to run their courses up to 20 times a year while some will run it as few as 3 times per year. You’ll consider the length of your course, your bandwidth to run it, and your revenue goals. 

How often can I run my cohort-based course?

When you host your course on our platform, Maven will earn a percentage of your course revenue as low as 10% and you keep the rest. We’ve worked hard to offer a creator-friendly model that ensures your CBC is lucrative while supporting the platform you host it on.

Yes. Our coaches help instructors launch their courses and provide hands-on support along the way. Learn more and apply.

Yes, you’ll be invited to a private beta of Maven’s platform where you can customize your landing page and manage admissions.

Our live, interactive workshops are Tuesdays and Thursdays 10am-12pm PT / 1-3pm ET.

Wes designed this course end-to-end and will lead some of the live workshops, but not all of them. Our workshops are led by seasoned instructors and course creators.

Be the first to know about the next cohort.

Building a cohort-based course is hard. Many creators are overwhelmed by the number of variables, unknown unknowns, and work involved. At Maven, we make it simple and easy for anyone to build your CBC step-by-step, so you’re ready to launch a pilot after 3 weeks. Best of all, you’ll build and get feedback from a cohort of top-notch instructors and coaches. 

At Maven, we make it simple to build your cohort-based course so you’re ready to
launch a pilot after just 3 weeks.