Built for patrons. Ready for libraries.
DesignMy Education serves two groups: patrons who need an equal-access path into entrepreneurship, and the public libraries trying to deliver that path with limited capacity.
Built from real delivery and discovery (200+ learners taught; 40+ librarian conversations).
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An equal-access entrepreneurship pathway
Our primary beneficiaries are teen and adult patrons who are motivated to build something but lack the money, time, or networks to access formal entrepreneurship training.
A repeatable program with credible outcomes
Our primary institutional stakeholders are U.S. public libraries and the staff responsible for workforce and small business programming. These teams are expected to deliver credible outcomes for funders and communities, but often lack the time and repeatable tools to run entrepreneurship programming consistently and measure results.
What Value Lab provides
Value Lab is an entrepreneurship platform that helps public libraries become an entrepreneurship hub for their community. It gives teen and adult patrons a free, structured pathway from interest to real outputs, and it gives libraries a repeatable program they can run with limited staff time and still report credible outcomes.
Movies on famous founders designed to engage, inform, and motivate.
Video lessons and business templates that help patrons move from choosing an audience to iterating an MVP.
Opportunities, books, newsletters, and tools so patrons can find the next right resource and build momentum beyond the library.
How libraries run it
Value Lab can be delivered through self-guided access, a weekly drop-in lab, or a short cohort that ends with a showcase.
Librarian resources
Session plans and prompts help staff guide discussions, keep participants progressing, and run programming consistently.
Validated in the field
We validated these needs through 1.5 years of direct delivery and structured discovery (200+ learners taught; 40+ librarian conversations), shaping Value Lab into a program-in-a-box with repeatable formats and measurable outcomes.
Sources: IMLS Public Libraries Survey (usage + scale) and GEM USA (Total Entrepreneurial Activity). See Statistics.