Make a living teaching what you love by Wes Kao, Rachel Cai, Chelsea Wilson, and Rey Baber

Make a living teaching what you love

A 3-week bootcamp for top creators and experts to turn your knowledge into an engaging and profitable cohort-based course

Build alongside a curated group of creators

Apply a step-by-step method for structuring your course, building your curriculum, and attracting students. Our interactive and project-based workshops will help you bring your course to life.

Who this course is for

01

Creators

You've built an audience and want to monetize your following with a profitable & scalable course

02

Subject Matter Experts

You can't keep up with the demand for your expertise and want to share your hard-earned knowledge with the world

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Online Course Creators

You've created a successful self-paced course and want to build a new revenue stream with a premium CBC

Why join Maven?

Construct a course that's uniquely yours

We teach you a simple approach to develop a high quality curriculum that delivers student transformation. You decide on the price, length, and experience that will optimize your students' learning and your return on investment.

Access to Maven's private beta

We offer an end-to-end platform designed for cohort-based courses that integrates marketing, admissions, payments, course operations, and community. No more hacking together disparate tools like Teachable, Kajabi, Slack, and Stripe.

Stay on track with projects and milestones

We use easy-to-follow frameworks, models, exercises, and case studies to help you ship your course and iterate as you grow.

Design interactive and project-driven workshops

You will learn to earn your students' wandering attention with the State Change Method, a strategy built for restless online audiences.

Create a premium asset that grows in value over time

Your course can evolve into a vibrant community that increases your impact.

Get personalized feedback

Maven TAs guide you through practice lessons, demos, and prototypes, getting your course ready for your first students.

We select the top 10% of creators based on:

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Credibility

You have an audience who know you as a leading expert on a topic

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Desire to build a business

You want to build a 6-figure business, and you're looking for the right partner to help you scale it

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Audience demand

You can find 100+ people who would pay to learn directly from you

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Maven Course Accelerator

Upcoming

MVN7

Dates

Aug 1 - 12, 2022

Application Deadline

July 29, 2022

MVN7

Dates

Aug 1 - 12, 2022

Application Deadline

July 29, 2022

Course syllabus

Find course-market fit

A great course is a catalyst for transformation. First, you need to identify what your course is about, who it's for, and what transformation you want to create. Using our proven frameworks and templates, you'll shape your positioning and ship your course landing page.

Develop your content

Your curriculum is a roadmap for how your students will get from point A to B. Using our templates, you’ll write compelling learning objectives, design interactive learning exercises, and explore different curriculum formats with real-world examples. You’ll develop a syllabus that helps your students learn & do.

Create engaging lessons

Most courses focus too much on the why. Great courses focus on the how. In this module, you’ll dissect the building blocks of an effective lesson, so you can implement active learning tactics like state changes and breakouts in your own course.

Market & sell your cohort-based course

You don’t need to be a marketer or have millions of followers to fill your next cohort. You should play the long game of building your audience while implementing proven sales tactics to put butts in seats. By the end of this course, you will create a marketing plan and workback calendar so you can have a successful launch.

Build and engage your course community

Students come for the content but stay for the community. It’s an incredible opportunity for them to engage with like-minded people, seeking a similar outcome. By engaging in our instructor community, you’ll discover ways to build psychological safety and peer learning so students can learn from each other.

Demo Day

You'll teach a 10 minute lesson and get feedback from your peers and TAs. This is a unique opportunity to practice what you've learned, so you can build confidence in your delivery.

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Meet the Maven team

Wes Kao

Co-founder of Maven

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.

Rachel Cai

Program Manager

Rachel is the Program Manager for the Maven Course Accelerator. She built the curriculum with Wes and is here to coach you on best practices for building & launching your course. Before Maven, Rachel led programs at Google for Education and was the CEO of an education non-profit.

Chelsea Wilson

Instructor Support

Chelsea leads Instructor Support at Maven. She’ll guide you on using our product and help you launch your first cohort. She'll show you how to optimize your marketing funnel within the platform. Prior to Maven, Chelsea was a training specialist and instructional coach at Stride-K12.

Rey Baber

Course Operations

Rey is the Operations Lead for the Maven Course Accelerator. He owns the operations–from onboarding to graduation. He will ensure all of you have a great experience throughout the accelerator. Before Maven, Rey managed the paid workshops and intro classes at General Assembly (GA).

Special guest speakers

Tiago Forte

Tiago is an advisor to Maven and the creator of Building a Second Brain, taken by 5,000+ students from 100+ countries. He will show you how he built his successful course business and how you can start building yours.

Sahil Bloom

Co-creator of Audience Building on Maven, Sahil has built an audience of 700k+ across his Twitter, newsletter, and podcast. He'll teach you frameworks for creating content and building your audience

Billy Broas

Creator of Keystone Accelerator and The 5 Lightbulbs framework for product positioning, Billy is joining the MCA for the 3rd time to help you craft your course messaging and attract your ideal students.

See what alumni are saying

Building and teaching my cohort-based course was an incredibly rewarding experience. By focusing on this topic so deeply, I discovered completely new insights. Building the course actually pushed my thinking further and deepened my own expertise.

Li Jin

Founding Partner of Atelier Ventures, Creator of Creator Economy Course

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.

Greg Isenberg

Founder & CEO of LateCheckout, Creator of Community College

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.

Lenny Rachitsky

Writer and former Growth PM @ Airbnb, Creator of Product Management Fundamentals Course

Designing my course with Maven was a transformative experience. Before the Course Accelerator, I had my content 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 better because of Maven.

Sara Sodine Parr

Lead Experience Researcher at Airbnb, Creator of Build the Right Thing

Be the first to know about upcoming cohorts

Maven Course Accelerator

Upcoming

MVN7

Dates

Aug 1 - 12, 2022

Application Deadline

July 29, 2022

MVN7

Dates

Aug 1 - 12, 2022

Application Deadline

July 29, 2022

Get access to Maven's private beta

Integrated marketing tools to convert students

Build a beautiful landing page, optimized for cohort-based courses and integrated with Stripe. You can send automated drip campaigns and personalized emails for every stage of the funnel.

Simplify course operations

No more disparate forms, spreadsheets, and email. With our instructor dashboard, you can easily admit students, automatically send calendar invites, and host your course content.

Engage your community

Get access to Maven's beta community so students have a one-stop-shop to find all their course content and connect with their cohort.

June cohort schedule

6-8 hours per week

Orientation
June 1 at 1-2:30pm EDT
Join us for a lively orientation to Maven, led by Gagan Biyani (CEO of Maven). You'll set your short-term and long-term goals, turn bugs into features, and get onboarded to our community product.
Live workshops
Monday & Wednesday at 1-3pm EDT
The Maven team will lead 2x/week interactive workshops. Each session is recorded.
- June 6: Define Your Topic
- June 8: Positioning & Course Mechanics
- June 13: Curriculum Building
- June 15: Creating Engaging Lessons
- June 20: Course Marketing
- June 22: Demo Day
Co-working labs (optional)
1-2pm EDT
Co-working time to work on your course, and open Q&A to critique your work or answer your burning questions.
- Friday, June 10
- Friday, June 17
- Tuesday, June 21
AMA with Tiago Forte (Bonus!)
June 21, 1-2pm EDT
Tiago Forte, creator of Build a Second Brain and advisor to Maven, will join us to teach you how to build your courses business.
Self-paced videos & reading
1 hour/week
We've curated helpful resources on defining your topic to building your curriculum. You'll watch these videos prior to live workshops, so we can focus more on doing, less on lecture.
Weekly projects due Sunday
2 hours/week
Each week, you'll build and ship your course. You'll share your work and get feedback from peers.

July cohort schedule

6-8 hours per week

Orientation
July 13 at 1-2:30pm EDT
Join us for a lively orientation to Maven, led by Gagan Biyani (CEO of Maven). You'll set your short-term and long-term goals, turn bugs into features, and get onboarded to our community product.
Live workshops
Monday & Wednesday at 1-3pm EDT
The Maven team will lead 2x/week interactive workshops. Each session is recorded.
- July 18: Define Your Topic
- July 20: Positioning & Course Mechanics
- July 25: Curriculum Building
- July 27: Creating Engaging Lessons
- Aug 1: Course Marketing
- Aug 3: Demo Day
Co-working labs (optional)
1-2pm EDT
Co-working time to work on your course, and open Q&A to critique your work or answer your burning questions.
- Friday, July 22
- Friday, July 29
- Tuesday, Aug 2
Self-paced videos & reading
1 hour/week
We've curated helpful resources on defining your topic to building your curriculum. You'll watch these videos prior to live workshops, so we can focus more on doing, less on lecture.
Weekly projects due Sunday
2 hours/week
Each week, you'll build and ship your course. You'll share your work and get feedback from peers.

Hear from our alumni

From expert feedback on building my landing page to hands-on help with creating my syllabus, I’m ready to launch my first cohort and I couldn’t be more excited. Whether you’re a prolific creator, an experienced speaker or a veteran of your craft, I promise you will learn boatloads from Maven on how to run a truly effective and engaging course.

Amanda Natividad

VP of Marketing at SparkToro & Creator of Content Marketing 201

The Maven Course Accelerator helped me approach my work in a more structured and deliberate way. I learned how to set clear goals for my students, design engaging sessions, and activate my community. Within 3 weeks, I launched a whole new course and started accepting enrollments. The MCA was a life-changing experience. It's worth the effort!

Dror Poleg

Writer & Creator of Hype Free Crypto

I've been creating cohort-based courses since 2012, growing my team from just me to now over 40 people. And even with all that experience, I learned so much from the Maven Course Accelerator. It had a profound impact on the way I think about designing course experiences, content and curriculum going forward. It's that good.

Heather Payne

Founder & CEO of Juno College, Creator of The Secret Strategy for a Systematic Job Search Course

The 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. I'm excited to bring a new course into the world, and I wouldn't have been able to do it without this experience!

Justin Mikolay

Writer & Creator of The 10x Creator Course

Be the first to know about upcoming cohorts

Maven Course Accelerator

Upcoming

MVN7

Dates

Aug 1 - 12, 2022

Application Deadline

July 29, 2022

MVN7

Dates

Aug 1 - 12, 2022

Application Deadline

July 29, 2022

Build alongside a curated group of creators & experts

Active learning, not passive watching

Every workshop is designed to help you put your learning into practice and ship your course pilot.

Learn with a cohort of peers

You’ll build and learn alongside a curated group of instructors. Our instructors include Li Jin, Lenny Rachitsky, Anthony Pompliano, Greg Isenberg, Amanda Natividad, Arielle Jackson, Logan Ury, and Pat Flynn.

Accountability through community

Expert staff, TAs, and fellow creators will keep you accountable and help you get unstuck.