Within the By Leap project: "Linking education, regional skills and potentials with regional youth employment practices" in a 4-month period, JAA supported the transformation of student and youth business initiatives into SMEs, through assistance and consultancy and transformational mentoring. From 30 applications 10 startups and ideas entered the pre-incubation stage based on 4 pillars: Defining the business goal, developing hypotheses, successful experiments, using data and information for decision making. The 4 pillars were used to empower and helped the 10 selected ideas, in validating their ideas/driving startups.Through this data, developing ideas/startups made adjustments to existing ideas or turned to another direction discovered through experiments.At the end of pre-incubation phase, the 4 most performing founders/teams were: Switch Technologies, LikSad eBikes, Crazy Creative House, Dora Creative. The transformation process of the 4 selected startup companies (with JA Alumni founders) was created as a series step-by-step workshops and mentoring on the legal framework for starting a business; defining the problem and other possible solutions in the market; improving the proposed value; financial model; marketing and visibility strategies, securing funds and investment readiness. At the end of the transformation process, the 4 startups developed: Pitch Deck, the tool to present the potential of their startup to different investors; the work plan for registering their business according to the best fiscal form and the business plan. The founders of the 4 startups are equipped with the necessary tools and knowledge to start their business activity and strive for sustainability and growth .