The Launch Pad Resources

Helpful tools for ventures in all stages

Welcome to the Resource Center.

From video walkthroughs to our favorite software and media recommendations, we’ve got an entire resource library for entrepreneurs at all stages. Resources are broken down by category and color-coded according to the business stage where they’ll be most useful. Click a card to learn further about each resource.

Idea & Concept

Prototype

Launch & Growth

Developed

Lean Canvas

By Ideation Resource

Help flesh out ideas and get on the right track with this handy resource.

Lean Canvas Business Model – TLP Walkthrough

By The LaunchPad

This presentation was created by The Launch Pad, it is geared toward breaking down each section in a simple to understand format.

SaaS Strategy Worksheet

By SaaS Strategy Planning

Use this worksheet to assist with SaaS strategy planning.

Lean Canvas Business Model

TLP Walkthrough

Learn about how you can walk through the Lean Canvas model.

Lean Canvas Business Model

TLP Walkthrough

Learn about how you can walk through the Lean Canvas model.

Lean Canvas Business Model

TLP Walkthrough

Learn about how you can walk through the Lean Canvas model.

Lean Canvas

By Ideation Resource

Help flesh out ideas and get on the right track with this handy resource.

Lean Canvas Business Model – TLP Walkthrough

By The LaunchPad

This presentation was created by The Launch Pad. This resource is geared towards breaking down and explaining each section.

SaaS Strategy Worksheet

By SaaS Strategy Planning

Use this worksheet to assist with SaaS strategy planning.

pre.dev

By Plan + Build Your Venture

Pre.Dev allows you to generate a development plan for your venture that includes detailed product documentation, roadmaps and customized code for your idea, all using AI.

Ampersand Studios

By Co-Working Space

Miami (Edgewater)

MADE at the Citadel

By Co-Working Space

Miami Shores

The Lab Miami

By Co-Working Space

Miami (Wynwood)

Pipeline

By Co-Working Space

Brickell, Coral Gables, Doral

Buro

By Co-Working Space

Miami Beach, Midtown, Coconut Grove, South Miami

WeWork

By Co-Working Space

Brickell, South Beach, Coral Gables

Expansive

By Co-Working Space

Miami (Edgewater)

Forum

By Co-Working Space

Coral Gables

General Provision

By Co-Working Space

Ft Lauderdale

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

By Burton G. Malkiel

Especially in the wake of the financial meltdown, readers will hunger for Burton G. Malkiel’s reassuring, authoritative, gimmick-free, and perennially best-selling guide to investing.

Angel

By Jason Calacanis

One of Silicon Valley’s most successful angel investors shares his rules for investing in start-ups.

Cost + Revenue Streams Chart

By Brainstorming Resource

Cost and Revenue template to assist you with your business’s accounting and financial planning.

Pitch Deck Template

By Pitch Deck

Having a strong pitch deck is essential to beginning your funding journey.

Competition List

By Competitions

Check out our most up-to-date list of competitions.

Grants List

By Grants

Check out our most up-to-date list of grants.

Funding Stages

By The Launch Pad

View different types of funding for the different stages of your venture.

Investor Funding Resources

By Investor Resources

Our extensive list of resources to assist in securing investors.

Black Girl Ventures

By Black Girl Ventures

Connect with and provide black/brown women-identifying entrepreneurs with funding and a community to help scale their venture.

Black Ambition Prize

By Black Ambition Prize

Prizes that fund bold ideas and companies led by Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs.

WomensNet

By WomensNet

Grants and other funding to help women achieve their business dreams, as well as encourage female entrepreneurs.

The Women’s VC Fund

By Women’s VC Fund

Funding platform that makes investments in early stage (A/B), revenue-generating, and high-growth companies led by management teams inclusive of women.

PeopleFund

By PeopleFund

By partnering with management and entrepreneurs, PeopleFund has generated industry-leading returns for our investors.

Las Olas Ventures

By Las Olas Ventures

Their investment themes reflect our view on the emerging technologies and business architectures that will have a fundamental impact on how the world runs.

Medina Capital

By Medina Capital

Medina Capital helps fill the gaps needed to accelerate the growth of a thriving business, by customizing their involvement based on the needs and requirements of each portfolio company.

Miami Angels

By Miami Angels

Miami Angels is comprised of over 100 angel investors who are passionate about early-stage ventures. Beyond providing capital, they collaborate with founders to ensure they have access to best in-class resources and a path to future funding.

New World Angels

By New World Angels

By being nearby in Florida, New World Angels tap into their extensive members’ skill set and contact list to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses.

Ocean Azul Ventures

By Ocean Azul Ventures

Ocean Azul Ventures is proud to support entrepreneurs building unique solutions that will shape the futures of their industries.

Secocha Ventures

By Secocha Ventures

Secocha Ventures focuses on Consumer Products & Services, Healthcare & Fintech companies. Most companies we look at are post-revenue, or have creatively proven Product Market Fit.

Tamiami Angel Fund

By Tamiami Angel Fund

Tamiami Angel Fund empowers entrepreneurs who are ready to scale.

The Michelson Institute For Intellectual Property

By Legal Resource

Free patent, copyright, and trademark resources for budding inventors and entrepreneurs.

Dade Legal Aid

By Legal Resource

For inventors, artists, and small businesses.

UM Law School Startup Clinic

By Legal Resource

Free legal help for startups by UM Law.

A World of Opportunities for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

By Greg Smogard

Greg Smogard, PhD, provides critical insight into how economic trends have contributed to the current uncertainty felt by many business owners, students, entrepreneurs, corporations, and the unemployed.

Google Forms

By Form Creator

Create simple forms using a variety of field types free of charge.

Wufoo Online Form Builder

By Form Builder

A cloud-based form builder that makes it easy to create a variety of surveys, registration forms, payment forms, and more.

Survey Monkey

By Market Research + Data Collection

Create detailed surveys to collect market research, and customer or employee data. Collect payments and manage teams.

Qualtrics

By Market Research

Create surveys and gather market data and employee insights using an easy-to-use design interface.

Competitor Comparison List

By Market Research Tools

Use the Competitor Comparison Chart for your business planning.

You ARE an Entrepreneur

Sam Shorts

Entrepreneurial mindset and identity development

Validating Your Idea

Sam Shorts

Essential techniques for testing and validating business concepts

Learning Your Industry

Sam Shorts

Research strategies for understanding your market and industry

Knowing Your Competitors

Sam Shorts

Competitive analysis and market positioning fundamentals

Business Plans

Sam Shorts

Creating effective business plans for your startup

Naming Your Venture

Sam Shorts

Strategies for choosing the right name for your business

Creating Your Digital Home

Sam Shorts

Building your online presence and digital foundation

Networking For Insight

Sam Shorts

Strategic networking to gain industry insights and connections

The 5 Essentials of Starting Your Business (Episode 1)

The Launch Pad

Building your MVP

The 5 Essentials of Starting Your Business (Episode 2)

The LaunchPad

Growth Platforming

The 5 Essentials of Starting Your Business (Episode 3)

The Launch Pad

Talking to customers

Web/App Prototyping

Sam Shorts

Creating functional prototypes for web and mobile applications

Financial Series (Episode 4)

The LaunchPad

Pitch Deck Financials

Art of the Pitch

Daniel Herrera (Miami Angels)

How to pitch your company to investors effectively

How To Tell Your Company’s Story

Tyler Koenig

Crafting compelling narratives for your business

Inbound Marketing

Julieta Sopeña (Grupo Mass)

Half-day workshop on improving inbound marketing efforts

Social Media 101

Sam Shorts

Fundamentals of social media marketing for startups

Administration Emergency Funding Intro

Althea Harris (Small Business Association)

Emergency funding, Economic Injury Disaster Loans, and Paycheck Protection Program

Building a Team

Sam Shorts

Strategies for hiring and building effective startup teams

Demand Curve

By Marketing Education

Free marketing masterclass on the science of the demand curve.

Canva

By Digital Marketing

A great, easy way to make content. From flyers to Instagram-dimension posts.

Later.com

By Social Media Marketing

A way to automate your social media posting to maintain a consistent posting schedule.

MailChimp

By Email Marketing

Mailchimp is a great way to engage your subscribers through engaging, interactive email blasts.

Vistaprint

By Physical Marketing Materials

Create custom marketing materials for your company.

Fiverr

By Freelance Business Services

Freelancers offer their services for all of your business needs on Fiverr.

Goldie

By Bookings/Appointments

Appointment scheduling, text reminders, online booking, and payments.

Adobe Illustrator

By Graphic Creation

The Adobe graphics app for logo and vector creation.

A World of Opportunities for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Greg Smogard, PhD

Creating Your Own Job in the New Normal

Design Thinking

Robert Curedale

Design thinking has become the new design doing that is sweeping the globe

Disciplined Entrepreneur

Bill Aulet

24 Steps to a Successful Startup

Entrepreneurship for Dummies

Kathleen Allen

A step-by-step guide to starting a business, covering everything from idea development to product testing, business planning, and choosing the right legal structure.

Gadget Nation

Steve Greenberg

Celebrates American inventiveness with over 100 quirky and clever gadgets, offering a fun look into the creative world of everyday innovation.

Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, & the Economics of Growth & Prosperity

Robert Litan & William J. Baumol

Capitalism’s success depends on balancing

Head First Object

By Brett Mclaughlin, Gary Pollice, David West

A beginner’s guide to flexible, maintainable object-oriented software.

It’s Your Biz

Susan Wilson Solovic & Ellen R. Kadin

Provides real-world guidance for aspiring entrepreneurs on planning, strategy, budgeting, hiring, and legal protection to build a successful, sustainable business.

Lean Impact

By Anna Mei Chang

Applies startup methods like experimentation and user feedback to social change, helping organizations scale impact and build lasting, need-driven solutions.

Principles

By Ray Dalio

Shares key principles of radical truth, transparency, and systematic decision-making to help individuals and organizations succeed.

Profit First

By Mike Michalowicz

Profit First by Mike Michalowicz offers a simple, counterintuitive approach to small business finance: take profit first, then spend what’s left. By flipping the traditional formula, entrepreneurs can ensure consistent profitability, simplify accounting, and build healthier businesses—no matter their size.

Value Proposition Design

By Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, and Alan Smith

Provides a practical framework to design, test, and refine products that fit customer needs.

When Coffee and Kale Compete

Alan Klement

Explains the Jobs to be Done framework, helping businesses understand customer motivations to create products that truly meet needs and drive growth.

Without Their Permission

Alexis Ohanian

A personal guide from Alexis Ohanian on leveraging the internet to create impactful businesses and communities, sharing lessons from his Reddit experience to inspire aspiring entrepreneurs.

Talking to Humans

By Giff Constable

A practical guide to mastering customer interviews, helping startups vet ideas and turn insights into actionable improvements.

Teaching Entrepreneurship

By Heidi M. Neck, Patricia G. Greene, and Candida G. Brush

Advocates a hands-on approach using play, empathy, creation, experimentation, and reflection to develop entrepreneurial skills, supported by practical exercises for educators.

Technion Nation

By Maital

Israel’s strength lies in its human resources, driving innovation and scientific progress despite limited natural resources; the Technion’s early founding helped prepare the nation for a brighter future.

Testing Business Ideas

By David J. Bland and Alexander Osterwalder

A practical guide to testing business ideas quickly to reduce risk, validate assumptions, and make smarter decisions.

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development

Brant Cooper

A step-by-step guide to finding early adopters and achieving product-market fit using Lean principles.

The Future of the Professions

By Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind

Predicts that technology and AI will transform and replace many professional roles by making expert knowledge more accessible and challenging traditional models of expertise.

The Origin of Wealth

By Eric D. Beinhocker

Explores how wealth is created through evolutionary processes in a complex, adaptive economy, challenging traditional economics with insights from modern science.

The Purpose is Profit

By Ed Mclaughlin, Wyn Lydecker, and Paul McLaughlin

Shares lessons on building a successful startup through competence, funding, branding, profit, and ethics.

Side Hustle

By Chris Guillebeau

Offers a step-by-step 27-day guide to launching a profitable side hustle, helping readers earn extra income and gain financial security without quitting their day job.

Founders at Work

By Jessica Livingston

A collection of candid interviews with famous tech founders revealing how they turned simple ideas into successful startups, offering insights into innovation, challenges, and business fundamentals.

Lean Analytics

By Alistair Croll and Ben Yoskovitz

Lean Analytics helps startups focus on key metrics to validate ideas, find customers, and achieve product-market fit, using practical steps and real-world case studies.

Million Dollar Consulting Toolkit

Alan Weiss, PhD

Million Dollar Consulting offers step-by-step guidance for consultants to grow a million-dollar practice by attracting clients, setting fees, raising capital, and accelerating growth.

Nail It then Scale It

Nathan Furr & Paul Ahlstrom

Offers a step-by-step lean startup approach guiding entrepreneurs to avoid common mistakes by doing the right things in the right order, increasing chances of success and growth.

The Rise of the Creative Class–Revisited

By Richard Florida

Identifies a new “Creative Class” of professionals shaping today’s economy, workplaces, and cities, offering updated insights on their global impact and influence on urban life.

StartUp Communities

By Brad Feld

Explores how to build vibrant startup communities by fostering connections, mentorship, and education, based on Brad Feld’s two decades of experience creating successful entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Nail It then Scale It

Nathan Furr & Paul Ahlstrom

Offers a step-by-step lean startup approach guiding entrepreneurs to avoid common mistakes by doing the right things in the right order, increasing chances of success and growth.

The Rise of the Creative Class–Revisited

By Richard Florida

Identifies a new “Creative Class” of professionals shaping today’s economy, workplaces, and cities, offering updated insights on their global impact and influence on urban life.

StartUp Communities

By Brad Feld

Explores how to build vibrant startup communities by fostering connections, mentorship, and education, based on Brad Feld’s two decades of experience creating successful entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Nail It then Scale It

Nathan Furr & Paul Ahlstrom

Offers a step-by-step lean startup approach guiding entrepreneurs to avoid common mistakes by doing the right things in the right order, increasing chances of success and growth.

Strategic Marketing Management

Alexander Chernev

A practical framework for marketing strategy and management centered on value creation, targeting customers, designing tactics, and managing growth—applicable to a wide range of businesses.

Competing Against Luck

Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan

Transform innovation from a game of chance to developing products customers want to buy at premium prices

Explosive Growth

By Cliff Lerner

A startup’s journey to 100 million users with practical growth tactics and lessons on product, metrics, viral marketing, and culture.

Business Model Generation

Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur

A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers

Angel

Jason Calacanis

How to Invest in Technology Startups–Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000

Competing Against Luck

Business Model Generation

Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur

A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers

Angel

Jason Calacanis

How to Invest in Technology Startups–Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000

Engineer to Entrepreneur

Rick De la Guardia

Success Strategies to Manage Your Career and Start Your Own Firm

Bootstrapping Your Business

Greg Gianforte

Start and Grow a Successful Company with Almost No Money

Conversational Marketing

David Cancel, Dave Gerhardt

How the World’s Fastest Growing Companies Use Chatbots to Generate Leads 24/7/365