Resources for Veteran Entrepreneurs

SCORE’s latest infographic highlights the strengths of veteran small business owners and the challenges they face. Read more

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!

So how well are small business owners doing at diversifying their workforces? Maybe not as well as they think.

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