By helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses, the MEI helps create jobs, create wealth, grow the economy and strengthen our free enterprise system. Banks, venture capitalists and investors in new ventures, firms interested in providing services for entrepreneurs, those seeking jobs in growing companies, chambers of commerce, interested in promoting business, state and local governments, interested in creating jobs and growing their economies and educational institutions, interested in providing entrepreneurial education. The MEI provides opportunities for seasoned entrepreneurs to 'give back' for help they received on their way up. These experienced entrepreneurs provide real-world entrepreneurial experience that makes the Minnesota Entrepreneurs unique. The Minnesota Entrepreneurs is governed by a board of directors who are elected annually by the membership.
Board members receive no compensation and serve two-year terms, half of which expire each year.
The officers are elected by the board and serve one-year terms. The Board guides the organization in pursuit of its mission. 1000 LaSalle Avenue, Minneapolis. The MEI sponsors educational seminars and workshops designed to help entrepreneurs succeed. The MEI encourages monthly breakfast networking meetings in St. Paul, Minneapolis and Bloomington.