Resources for Veteran Entrepreneurs

SCORE mentor and Vietnam veteran Walter Abbott explains how veterans and their spouses can secure funding that will be best for their businesses. Read more

According to the SBA, one in four post-9/11 veterans wants to start their own business. Here are the top funding sources for veteran entrepreneurs.

2.5 million military veterans own businesses. Are you a veteran who owns a business or hopes to start one in the near future?

What if I told you that the organization that has created more business owners than any program in the nation will actually pay you to join? It’s the U.S. military.

In 2016, the US Census Bureau reported that veterans own a whopping 7.5% of small businesses in the US – that’s 405,235 businesses out of 5.4 million nationwide!

Read these three stories of veterans who launched entrepreneurial companies to help other veterans successfully transition back to civilian life.

As shown in our latest infographic, veterans make up eight percent of the U.S. population, but they own 9.2 percent of all companies in America.

Veterans are twice as likely to own a business. Learn more about this growing group of small business owners in our latest infographic, “Vetpreneurs.” Read more