Bring your ideas to life
The Launch Pad helps you start, build, and scale your business.
All the help you need
Whether you’ve got an idea on a napkin, or 50 employees and growing, The Launch Pad can help.
1-1 Consulting
The Launch Pad will work with you One on One to help work through your ideas and bring them to life.
Mentorship Programs
We offer a robust mentorship program where we pair your company with industry experts to help reach your goals
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Comprehensive Workshops
Everything from skill building to scaling, The Launch Pad offers a variety of subjects to teach you how to grow your business.
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Free Co-working
Work on your company in our free co-working space “SkyLab” right on campus.
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Resource Library
Getting started guides, financial modeling samples, how-tos and more.
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Events & Lectures
The Feldman Lecture series brings a bi-annual series of speakers to campus to share their entrepreneurial vision.
A community of entrepreneurs
The Launch Pad, the entrepreneurship center for the University of Miami, is your resource for connecting with other entrepreneurs in the Hurricane community. Whether you’re a student, an alum, or faculty/staff, we’re here to support your business goals.
Our services are open to all degree seeking undergrad or graduate degree students as well as faculty & staff.
Designed for business leaders and developers
Whether you’re creating an idea, or building the next big cloud infrastructure, or scaling your business, The Launch Pad can help.
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Ideation
We can help you take your idea from a napkin to a full fledged business model and eventually to a revenue generating company. We’ll give you frameworks and ideas on how to improve and refine your ideas and the business models associated with them.
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Business Modeling
The fundamental aspect of your business is whether or not it can be built into a sustainable business. Come by our office or schedule a meeting and we can help you build your business model.
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Design Thinking
Design Thinking is an iterative process in which we seek to understand the user, challenge assumptions, and redefine problems in an attempt to identify alternative strategies and solutions that might not be instantly apparent with our initial level of understanding. At the same time, Design Thinking provides a solution-based approach to solving problems. It is a way of thinking and working as well as a collection of hands-on methods.
Join the Launch Pad community and get lifetime access to our resources.
Our office is here as a free lifetime resource.