Entrepreneur Launch Pad began in 2008 with a professional networking group in Centerville, UT. The group’s objective is to provide a “hands on” approach to helping each other build successful businesses. Entrepreneur Launch Pad (ELP) now provides a forum in three locations in Northern Utah. ELP is a non-profit business, providing no cost services to budding, early-stage, and mid-level entrepreneurs. ELP is for you if you have a business idea, are considering creating your own job, need to scale an existing business, desire to help with an existing business, have resources for other entrepreneurs, or are just interested in entrepreneurship in general.

Service & Learning

Entrepreneur Launch Pad strives to advance both the science and practice of entrepreneurship so as to stimulate positive economic growth and development through new company formation, technology, and improved competitive performance of entrepreneurial ventures.

ELP encourages and promotes service to other organizations. Entrepreneurs help others who need their expertise inside and outside of meetings. Typically, these individuals do not have the resources to start a company, but have an interest in learning all they can to better their financial situation. ELP strives to create:

• Learning and teaching opportunities
• Improved knowledge and experience of entrepreneurs and college students interested in entrepreneurship.
• Capitalization of emerging trends and new technologies through hands –on workshops

ELP’s objective is to help all entrepreneurs, of every level, and encourage exchange of helpful resources between entrepreneurs, educational institutions, business, and government agencies that support similar programs that provide benefits to entrepreneurs. ELP invites service providers to join us at our meetings to share, without remuneration, their expertise in helping to assist entrepreneurs during our business building sessions. Service providers are encouraged to be at the meetings early as well as remain after for networking opportunities.  Meeting times are set aside specifically for the entrepreneurs who are building their businesses.

Services Include:

• Meeting weekly with other entrepreneurs to discuss business topics
• Mentoring one another through business challenges and growth
• Helping launch a new business idea
• Sharing contacts and referrals to help overcome problems
• Providing relevant presentations to improve business knowledge
• Sharing how to use technology and the internet to market
• Making entrepreneurs aware of free and low cost support for working through startup and 1^st year business issues.
• Connecting entrepreneurs with key mentors and finance sources
• Networking with service providers serving the entrepreneur community