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MicroMBA by Operation Launchpad
MBA-level business fundamentals. Practical learning for the business you want to build.
Online business education
Build understanding. Put it to work.
MicroMBA is a free online business-learning program provided by Operation Launchpad and taught by Juan Olmedo for contractors, aspiring entrepreneurs and small-business owners. Explore the decisions behind a stronger business—from leadership and customer acquisition to operations and cash flow.
OLP provides practical business fundamentals learning, with an emphasis on applying what you learn to real business challenges. Business Made Simple is a distinct course using Donald Miller’s curriculum and coached by Juan Olmedo.
Learn online
On-demand lessons designed to fit around the demands of running or starting a business.
Connect learning to action
Use practical frameworks to think through your next business decision.
Explore certificate learning
Ask about certificate requirements, course availability and the enrollment process before joining.
Business Made Simple curriculum
A framework for clarity. Coaching for action.
Business Made Simple, created by Donald Miller, helps business owners connect leadership, marketing, sales, products and services, operations, and cash flow into a practical Business Flight Plan.
Juan Olmedo is a Business Made Simple Certified Coach and Small Business Flight Plan Certified Coach through Donald Miller’s Coach Builder program. He brings this training to OLP’s business education and coaching, helping entrepreneurs apply the curriculum to real decisions—not just learn the theory.
These badges recognize Juan’s coaching certifications, not academic accreditation or an MBA degree. Business Made Simple and Small Business Flight School are paid courses on Donald Miller’s online learning platform. Their materials remain externally authored; OLP provides coaching and full scholarship support for qualifying clients. OLP receives no referral commissions.
The six-module Business Flight Plan
Learn how the parts of a business work together.
Marketing
Clarify your message so customers understand what you do, who you help and why it matters.
Sales
Build trust, address objections and develop a repeatable process for customer conversations.
Products & Services
Think through your offerings, pricing and the value you deliver to your customers.
Overhead & Operations
Organize your team, streamline operations and build systems that support consistent execution.
Cash Flow
Strengthen your understanding of cash management and the financial systems that keep a business moving.
Provided by Juan Olmedo
Business education with an entrepreneur’s perspective.
Juan Olmedo is OLP’s CEO / Executive Director, Business Advisor and Startup Coach. A U.S. Navy veteran with 20 years of entrepreneurial experience, he connects business fundamentals with the challenges owners face in practice.
Juan is a Business Made Simple Certified Coach and Small Business Flight Plan Certified Coach, trained to deliver the Business Flight Plan curriculum.
- For founders moving from an idea to a business plan
- For contractors strengthening the business behind their trade
- For owners building more consistent leadership, sales and systems
Maps to Success
The seven business pillars behind MicroMBA.
MicroMBA learning connects to the same seven pillars our advisors use in consulting. Explore each pillar to see what it covers.
01
Compliance / Legal
Start on stronger ground. Know the rules, the risks, and the questions to ask.
02Sales
Turn conversations into customers. Build a sales process you can repeat, measure, and improve.
03Marketing & Branding
Be known for the right reasons. Reach the right customers with a message they understand.
04Accounting, Bookkeeping & Finance
Know your numbers. Make decisions with greater clarity and confidence.
05Leadership & People Development
Grow into the leader your business needs next.
06Small Business Tech
Use technology to work smarter, serve customers better, and build systems that scale.
07Business Operations & Systems
Build a business that works by design—not by daily improvisation.
Full course scholarships
Practical education. Greater access.
Operation Launchpad Foundation Inc. offers full scholarships for the MicroMBA course and Donald Miller’s Business Made Simple course. These opportunities advance our nonprofit mission by removing course-cost barriers to practical business education for aspiring entrepreneurs and U.S. military veterans.
- MicroMBA — 100% course scholarship
- Business Made Simple by Donald Miller — 100% course scholarship
MicroMBA is provided by OLP; its scholarship covers access to our course and materials rather than payment to an external school. For Business Made Simple, OLP pays the $2,500 course cost to Business Made Simple / Donald Miller’s coaching program, and Juan Olmedo coaches qualifying clients through those materials.
The Business Made Simple and Small Business Flight School scholarship covers the complete online courses, prerecorded videos and assignments, plus one-to-one and group coaching by Juan Olmedo. Applicants must complete an approximately 20-minute scholarship assessment covering business stage, compliance, funding readiness and commitment, score strictly above 70%, and receive Juan’s manual review. Enrollment remains subject to available funding, and support is not a cash award.
The on-demand courses can take 3–12 months. Scholarship applicants commit to completing within 3–4 months with coaching support; this is a completion commitment, not a stated access expiration. Start with Get Started to request course support; OLP coordinates scholarship assessment and enrollment separately. A score at or below 70% does not itself exclude you from free consulting, MicroMBA, Core5 or Builders Boardroom.
Enrollment and credentials
Contact an OLP advisor to discuss a full scholarship, current course availability, learning access, coaching arrangements and certificate completion requirements. Scholarship enrollment is arranged separately from a consulting appointment.
MicroMBA is certificate-oriented business education, not an accredited MBA degree. Business Made Simple is a separate course with externally authored materials coached by Juan Olmedo. No academic credit or endorsement by Oneday or William Jewell College is represented.
Free support through Operation Launchpad
OLP provides up to 10 hours of no-cost consulting per individual across its business pillars, free MicroMBA learning, a free Core5 Business Map on LaunchpadOS, and free access to Builders Boardroom. Consulting remains subject to program eligibility, scheduling and advisor availability.
Core5 & Builders Boardroom
Core5 uses an AI-assisted assessment of your current situation, goals, challenges and business plan to generate a Business Map. LaunchpadOS hosts Core5; it is not a separate paid offering. Builders Boardroom is a WhatsApp community where contractors collaborate, share guidance and connect with one another. OLP charges no membership fee; any work members arrange with each other is separate from OLP’s free services.
External course scholarships
Business Made Simple and Small Business Flight School use Donald Miller’s paid online learning platform. Qualifying clients may receive a full OLP scholarship covering the courses and one-to-one and group coaching by Juan Olmedo. A completed assessment, a score strictly above 70% and manual review are required. Not qualifying for this scholarship does not, by itself, exclude you from OLP’s free consulting, MicroMBA, Core5 or community.
Optional private consulting — separate from OLP
After the free consulting hours, clients who wish to continue working with Juan Olmedo may separately hire AETLAS Business, his privately owned, for-profit consulting firm. Its retainer or as-needed fees are paid directly to AETLAS Business, not OLP. Hiring that firm is not required to receive OLP services or be considered for a scholarship. OLP receives no referral commissions from AETLAS Business or Business Made Simple; these private payments are not donations to OLP or represented as funding its nonprofit programs.
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