Small-Business Growth Solutions for Institutions
Improve Business Readiness, Program Placement, and Measurable Outcomes
Business owners enter programs at different stages, with different needs, capabilities, and levels of readiness.
Yet many receive the same curriculum, technical assistance, and referrals.
Small Business Pro University helps banks, CDFIs, chambers, universities, economic-development organizations, procurement programs, and other institutions use assessment-driven insights to provide the right support at the right time.
From program participation to measurable business progress.
Better Support Begins With a Better Diagnosis
Traditional intake forms may capture revenue, years in business, number of employees, and ownership demographics
They often do not reveal:
What is actually limiting the business
Whether the owner is ready for capital
Whether the company can perform a larger contract
Which technical assistance is most appropriate
Whether the participant belongs in a foundational or advanced program
What should be addressed first
How progress should be measured
Without that insight, institutions may invest valuable resources in programs that are too broad, too early, too advanced, or disconnected from the participant’s greatest needs.
The Masterpreneur™ Growth System provides a structured way to assess business maturity, identify growth constraints, establish priorities, and measure progress over time.
Who We Serve
Our institutional solutions are designed for:
Banks and credit unions
Community development financial institutions
Chambers of commerce
Economic-development agencies
Universities and community colleges
Small Business Development Centers
Women’s Business Centers
Foundations and community-impact programs
Procurement and supplier-diversity programs
Contractor-development initiatives
Incubators and accelerators
Minority, women, and veteran business organizations
Entrepreneurship-support organizations
Our diagnostic tools can strengthen existing programs or serve as the foundation for a new initiative.
The Masterpreneur™ Growth System
The proprietary Masterpreneur™ Growth System evaluates each business across five stages of development and 10 interconnected growth factors
The resulting Business Growth Score, stage placement, and factor-level findings help institutions better understand what each participant needs next.
Institutional Solutions
Business Growth Diagnostic and Placement
Assess participating businesses before assigning programs, advisors, capital resources, or technical assistance.
Assess participating businesses before assigning programs, advisors, capital resources, or technical assistance.
This solution can help your organization:
Identify each business’s current stage
Segment participants by needs and readiness
Match owners with appropriate programming
Assign relevant advisors and resources
Establish individual growth priorities
Recognize participants requiring additional support
Best for: Entrepreneurship programs, chambers, universities, accelerators, and technical-assistance providers
Capital Readiness
Capital alone cannot fix a structurally weak business.
Our diagnostic process evaluates the broader conditions that may affect a company’s ability to use and repay financing successfully, including:
Profitability
Cash flow
Pricing
Financial controls
Sales consistency
Working-capital needs
Operating capacity
Management depth
Strategic use of funds
The findings can support more focused borrower education, technical assistance, referrals, and follow-up
Best for: Banks, credit unions, CDFIs, loan funds, and community-development programs
Contract and Supplier Readiness
Certification may open the door. Business readiness helps a company win, deliver, and grow.
Our Contract and Growth Readiness approach helps evaluate:
Estimating and pricing
Financial capacity
Working capital
Staffing
Project management
Quality control
Reporting systems
Leadership capacity
Risk management
Delivery capacity
Best for: Supplier-diversity programs, public agencies, corporations, prime contractors, and contractor-development initiatives.
Portfolio Diagnostics and Reporting
Aggregate, anonymized assessment results can help your institution understand the broader needs of the businesses it serves
Portfolio insights may include:
Distribution across business stages
Average Business Growth Scores
Strongest and weakest growth factors
Common capital-readiness gaps
Common contract-readiness gaps
Technical-assistance priorities
Program-design opportunities
Resource-allocation recommendations
Changes identified through reassessment
These insights can support leadership decisions, funding requests, stakeholder reporting, and future program design
Advisor Training and Institutional Licensing
Organizations may train internal staff or affiliated advisors to use the Masterpreneur™ methodology more consistently
Training and licensing options may include:
Growth-system orientation
Assessment interpretation
Debrief methodology
Facilitation guides
Reporting templates
Quality standards
Continuing education
Masterpreneur™ Growth Architect Certification
This creates a shared framework for intake, diagnosis, recommendations, referrals, and progress measurement
How an Engagement Works
Discover
We clarify your participant population, program goals, desired outcomes, reporting requirements, and current support model
Diagnose
Assessment findings are interpreted through individual debriefs, group sessions, written summaries, or a combination of approaches
Reassess and Report
Participants may be reassessed to measure progress and identify their next priorities. The institution receives agreed-upon aggregate findings and recommendations
Design
We define the target group, assessment process, delivery structure, timeline, responsibilities, and measures of success
Prioritize and Place
Participants receive priorities and are matched with appropriate programs, advisors, resources, or next steps
Assess
Participants complete the Masterpreneur™ Growth Assessment
Implement
The institution may add cohorts, advising, technical assistance, or specialized readiness support
Outcomes for Your Organization
An assessment-driven approach can help your institution:
Improve Participant Placement
Match business owners with the right program, advisor, resource, or opportunity.
Personalize Technical Assistance
Provide support based on diagnosed needs rather than broad assumptions.
Strengthen Capital Readiness
Identify the financial, operational, and leadership issues that may affect financing success.
Strengthen Contract Readiness
Evaluate whether businesses can profitably deliver larger opportunities.
Improve Program Design
Use participant data to shape curriculum, advising, partnerships, and referrals.
Measure Progress
Track changes in business maturity, readiness, capability, and implementation.
Improve Reporting
Provide executives, boards, funders, and community stakeholders with more meaningful information about participant needs and development.
Allocate Resources More Effectively
Concentrate limited funding and technical assistance where they are most likely to produce progress.
Engagement Options
Diagnostic Pilot
A focused pilot for approximately 15–25 businesses
Diagnostic and Implementation Cohort
A structured program combining assessment, individualized priorities, group learning, and implementation support
Annual Institutional Partnership
A continuing partnership for organizations serving multiple cohorts or a portfolio of businesses
Why Small Business Pro University?
Small Business Pro University brings together assessment, strategy, implementation, and measurement through one connected growth system
Founder Andrew Frazier, MBA, CFA, has:
Worked directly with more than 1,000 business owners
Trained tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and professionals
Developed more than 100 courses, tools, and business resources
Authored four small-business books
Hosted more than 250 Leadership LIVE @ 8:05! episodes
Helped facilitate more than $100 million in financing and economic impact
His experience spans finance, operations, entrepreneurship, military leadership, teaching, investing, and strategic advisory work.
Build Better Pathways for Business Growth
Your organization may already provide valuable education, capital, contracts, technical assistance, and relationships.
The Masterpreneur™ Growth System helps determine which businesses need which resources and what should happen first.
Together, we can move from one-size-fits-all programming to more personalized, measurable business support
Include:
Banks and credit unions
CDFIs
Chambers
Economic-development agencies
Universities
Foundations
Procurement programs
Supplier-diversity organizations
Explain the institutional outcomes
Better intake and segmentation
More appropriate program placement
Capital- and contract-readiness insights
Individual growth priorities
Aggregate cohort findings
Reassessment and impact measurement
Stronger funder and stakeholder reporting