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Best LMS for Startup Mentors

Start selling entrepreneurship courses from your own site for free.

Masteriyo is the all-in-one LMS plugin built for startup mentors who’d rather validate ideas than wrestle with checkout pages, plugin stacks, and platform fees.

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4.8 on WordPress.org and G2
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Zero-to-One Startup Foundations
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Idea Validation 1/3
Idea validation basics
Customer discovery interviews
Pitch deck template (PDF)
Customer Discovery 0/5
MVP & Product Build 0/6
Fundraising Basics 0/5
Final Pitch & Certificate 0/2
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Customer discovery interviews

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Why startup mentors move to WordPress

Stop building your mentorship practice on someone else’s platform.

Hosted course platforms work fine when you’re testing the idea. But once your entrepreneurship teaching practice is real, WordPress gives you ownership, lower fees, and room to grow at your own pace.

Stop sharing every sale with Kajabi.

Hosted platforms keep raising fees as your audience grows. Masteriyo runs checkout natively on your WordPress site — no marketplace cuts, no transaction fees.

Own your client relationships.

Your audience, email list, enrollments, and client progress stay connected to your brand — not locked behind a platform’s login screen.

One plugin, not five.

Lessons, quizzes, certificates, payments, drip content, and client tracking — all handled inside one WordPress LMS. No fragile chain of add-ons.

Sample course structure

Your first entrepreneurship course, live this afternoon.

Structure your curriculum the way clients actually learn: short validation walkthroughs and pitch reviews, guided practice, downloadable interview scripts, and progress checkpoints. Drop in your own videos, customize the modules, and you’re enrolling clients.

Video lessons for validation walkthroughs and pitch reviews
PDF lessons for interview scripts and pitch deck templates
Quizzes for validation, discovery, and fundraising
Certificates when clients finish your program

COURSE PREVIEW

Zero-to-One Startup Foundations

5 modules · 28 lessons · 4 quizzes · Certificate

MODULE 01

Idea Validation

6 video lessons
Validation worksheet

MODULE 02

Customer Discovery

6 video lessons
Interview script

MODULE 03

MVP & Product Build

6 video lessons
MVP checklist

MODULE 04

Fundraising Basics

5 video lessons
Pitch deck template

MODULE 05

Final Pitch & Certificate

Final pitch review
Certificate of completion

What you can do

A real entrepreneurship course business needs more than a video uploader.

Sell, teach, manage, and grow your mentorship practice from one WordPress LMS plugin.

Build your entrepreneurship curriculum.

Drag-and-drop modules, lessons, videos, downloadable interview scripts and templates, and quizzes from a single dashboard. No code, no theme fights.

Accept payments natively.

Sell with Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, Mollie, or WooCommerce. Multi-currency built in so clients from any country pay in their local money.

Quiz clients on validation and discovery.

Nine question types. Auto-grade interview questions, MVP scoping, and pitch frameworks — without manual checking.

Issue certificates on completion.

Branded, downloadable certificates clients can share when they finish your entrepreneurship program. Add your logo, your wording, your style.

Drip lessons week by week.

Release modules on a schedule for multi-week startup cohorts. Builds anticipation, paces practice, and reduces refunds.

See exactly who’s practicing.

Lesson completion, quiz attempts, interviews logged — every client’s progress tracked so you know who’s stuck on validation and who’s ready to build.

Start With a Template

Get your website launched in no time with our professionally designed website template for your online course. Powered by . Ready to launch with a 1-click import.

Start using this template today by installing the FREE theme.

Plus dozens more starter sites to choose from.

Pricing fit

Start free. Upgrade when your mentorship practice starts growing.

Most startup mentors launch with the free plugin, then upgrade to Pro when they need certificates, drip content, advanced quizzes, or course bundles.

Free

Always free

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Free forever · WordPress.org

Perfect for publishing your first entrepreneurship course and testing the client experience.

Unlimited courses and students
Drag & drop course builder
Built-in order system
Stripe, PayPal & WooCommerce
AI course creation
Certificate builder
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Basic

Normally $199/yr

$99/yr

For solo creators

For selling paid entrepreneurship courses with stronger checkout, certificates, and assignments.

Everything in Free
Course Attachments
Course Preview
Webhooks
Premium updates
Premium support
Get Basic
Most Popular

Pro

Normally $299/yr

$149/yr

For growing schools

For multi-course practices using drip content, bundles, gradebook, and advanced quizzes.

Everything in Basic
Smart Coupons
Multiple instructors
Advanced quizzes & gradebook
More payment gateways
Marketing Tools
Get Pro

Special introductory pricing. All renewals at full price.

14-day money-back guarantee
No transaction fees
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Creator voices

Creators chose Masteriyo — and didn’t look back.

130+ five-star reviews across WordPress.org and G2.

“Masteriyo will set the standard for not only how course builders should be built, but plugins in general. The ease, simplicity, beauty, and speed are unmatched.”

— @ej2008

WordPress.org review

“Masteriyo is a true dark horse — lesser known than TutorLMS, LearnDash, or LifterLMS, but just as powerful, if not more so.”

— @bradtech

WordPress.org review

“Very easy to use and intuitive. I was impressed by everything it can do at such a reasonable cost.”

— Beverley D.

G2 review

FAQ

The questions startup mentors ask.

Can I sell entrepreneurship courses online directly from WordPress?

Yes. Masteriyo gives you a complete LMS — course builder, lessons, quizzes, payments, and client management — all on your own WordPress site. No hosted platform, no per-sale cuts.

Can I include interview scripts, pitch deck templates, and case study PDFs?

Yes. Add downloadable lesson materials alongside your videos, quizzes, and text lessons. Clients get everything they need in one place.

Do I need WooCommerce or a separate payment plugin?

No. Masteriyo includes native payments via Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, and Mollie out of the box. WooCommerce is optional if you already use it.

Can I release lessons week by week?

Yes. Content drip lets you schedule modules for multi-week startup cohorts — useful for keeping clients paced and reducing refunds.

Do I need technical skills to set up my course site?

No. Masteriyo is built for creators, not developers. The setup wizard creates every page you need in under a minute — checkout, dashboard, course pages, all auto-configured. If you can run a WordPress site, you can run Masteriyo.

Build your entrepreneurship course business on your own terms.

Join 4,000+ creators running paid courses on their own WordPress sites. No platform fees. No middleman. Just your teaching, your students, your revenue.

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