Where can I find mentorship and guidance?

Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses has partnered with Miami Dade College to provide small business owners in the greater Miami area with access to practical business courses, financial capital, and powerful networking opportunities to help their businesses grow. Through the support of the Goldman Sachs Foundation, business owners selected to participate will receive a scholarship covering the full cost of tuition and program materials.

Brand New Mornings are monthly conversations on branding, business, and creativity for entrepreneurs in South Florida. Founded by Nadia Payan (Good Axe Designs) and Gabriela Guzman (The Jupiter Circle), Brand New Mornings was born as way to gather a community of creative entrepreneurs connecting and supporting one another.

Through LaunchToThrive.com, law firm Carlton Fields provides free counsel on bylaws, articles of incorporation, trademarks and IP, NDAs, employment contracts, and more.

A law firm specializing in creative start-ups, helping entrepreneurs with company structuring and intellectual property. They specialize in a range of industries, from fashion and retail to global ventures.

This global non-profit organization launched its first U.S. affiliate in Miami, bringing with it its expert advice and desire to cultivate entrepreneurs in the community. Endeavor Miami selects and mentors a group of high-impact companies to strengthen the market and create high-value jobs. Bringing together a global network of business leaders has proven essential to its success in removing cultural or economic obstacles to entrepreneurship.

EDC is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides mentorship, capital introductions, and business incubation services to entrepreneurs and startups in South Florida. EDC offers a venture mentorship program for individual businesses, and also produces events, conferences, and networking for the larger community.

Florida Atlantic University’s Startup Runway program is a business accelerator and mentorship program operated by a public-private partnership. The program provides accepted companies with a full range of services from research to launch to fundraising, based on curricula from Stanford and MIT.

FinTelHub’s mission is to help entrepreneurs gain the knowledge they need to avoid common financial pitfalls in their business venture. They meet the second Thursday of every month at Venture Café Miami.

The Larry Hoffman|Greenberg Traurig Startup Practicum connects University of Miami School of Law students with new ventures in need of legal assistance. Students in the Startup Practicum help clients with organizing, financing, talent, intellectual property, risk, regulation and other legal issues that arise for entrepreneurs as they launch their new businesses and organizations.

MentorDay is the creation of Juan López Salaberry, an entrepreneur and former partner at 500 Startups. The nonprofit arranges monthly one-on-one, 45-minute sessions between experienced mentors and entrepreneurs, focused on specific challenges the entrepreneur is facing. The program is free and takes place on the third Friday of every month. Entrepreneurs apply and are accepted into the sessions on a rolling basis.

Urban Philanthropies has teamed up with the Partners for Self Employment to provide entrepreneurial and financial literacy training, combined with peer-evaluated business loans of up to $5,000, to be granted to selected future business owners to assist in a successful Overtown startup.

Through its accelerator and incubator programs, this entrepreneurial and educational firm promotes the growth of startups in some of Miami’s strongest industries. Venture Hive uses three levels of engagement to energize and cultivate entrepreneurs from around the world and grow the regional economic impact of those ventures in Miami. It also offers Venture Prep and Venture U to encourage innovation among students at high school and university levels.

Founded at Babson College in Massachusetts, one of the country’s leading universities focused on entrepreneurship, the WIN Lab is a program that brings cohorts of female-led businesses through an eight-month program of mentorship, business development, networking, and co-working space. The program is open to businesses from the idea to scale stage.