Launch League · Northeast Ohio
Helping people discover their potential and build their future.
Career discovery, entrepreneurship and confidence for students ages 13 and up, and practical business coaching for the people who run local businesses.
Two doors, one program
Pick the one that sounds like you
They are two different kinds of help from the same person, so each has its own page, its own questions and its own next step.
For students and parents
Career discovery, entrepreneurship and confidence for ages 13 and up. One-to-one coaching for the teenager who has no idea what they want to do, and a free business program for the one who has a hundred ideas.Read moreFor business owners
Strategy, leadership, operations and growth coaching from someone who has run operations for a company of more than 100 people. An operator in your corner every month.Read more
Free, for any student
Start without paying anything
The free program is the front door. You never need to buy coaching to use any of it.
- Business 101A free, practical course on how a business really works, with exercises you do on your own idea. Hosted on our main site, launchleague.ca.
- How to start a business in OhioThe real steps and what they cost, checked against official sources: trade name, LLC, EIN, sales tax and free help.
- How to make money as a teenagerFifty ideas with what each costs and how to get your first customer, plus what Ohio asks of young workers.
- The free career quizTen minutes, nothing stored: what you like doing and the kinds of work that fit it.
- The Barberton business competitionA Launch League competition is coming to Barberton, Ohio. Dates and how to enter will be posted first to the list.
Who is behind it
I was the teenager with a plan
I'm Nick Gonzalez. I grew up in Ohio, where I started a lawn and landscaping business in high school and won first place in a statewide business plan competition. I then spent ten years in the U.S. Air Force, in construction and financial management, and eight years leading operations and growth at a company of more than 100 people in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, where I now live. I watched co-op students become apprentices and tradespeople become supervisors.
Launch League exists to give young people what that competition gave me: someone who takes your idea seriously. I'm bringing it to Northeast Ohio, starting in Barberton.
Where I am, plainly
Launch League is based in Chatham-Kent, Ontario. I coach over video and show up in person for events in Northeast Ohio.
Not sure which door? Write to me at admin@launchleague.ca and say what you are trying to figure out.