Veteran Business Community
Launch your business faster and scale more profitably with a community of battle-tested veteran entrepreneurs.Each week we will interview successful Veteran Business Owners. Learn how they made it through the start-up phase, how they had failures and setbacks, and how they came out on top. Entrepreneurs will have failures, but the successful ones learn how to fail early and fail cheap, so they can stay in business long enough to be successful. No B.S, just real Veteran Business owners from all over the world come to share what they have learned. Stay profitable!
He turned military experience into a 7-Figure business teaching Government Contracting
What if the business you've been looking for is the experience you already have?
That's exactly what we're going to explore in our next Veteran Business Community interview.
We're excited to sit down for Masterclass Monday on July 13th with our friend Richard C. Howard, Lt Col (Ret), a retired Air Force officer who turned the knowledge and experience he gained in the military into a seven-figure consulting business.
Even more impressive, he's helped hundreds of other professionals start and grow their consulting businesses.
We'll dive into:
✅ How he ma...
Understanding AI for your business
A Veteran Entrepreneur sold his fitness franchise to start an AI company called Finovate
AI Basics in plain EnglishWhat AI isn't, doing some myth bustingHow AI learns and worksGenerative AI & ChatGPT4 Business use cases of AIQuick wins you can implement this weekAvoid a $30,000 fine. Intellectual Property (IP) Law and what a small business needs to know.
What you need to know from an actual Patent Attorney. Logan Faucher walks us through best practices and pitfalls that can get your company burned; to include a $30,000 penalty for each offense.
IP covers copywriting, patents, trademarks. Learn where to go to register your trademark.
Simple Business Credit
We cover the basics of business credit and how to build it. Learn how it is scored and where to monitor your business credit score. We cover what a trade line is and what is required for it to count towards business credit.
Two Veterans start the Veterans Business Community
We discuss the difference between a lifestyle business and a scalable business. We each talk about our 1st businesses and why they both failed.
Want to become a business owner, but don't have the money to start or buy a business? We discuss a method to become a business owner with for no money.
Listen to this and more.
From Military to Apparel Empire - Matt Johnson's Biggest Business Mistakes
We talk about Mistakes people make with elevator pitches, business models with on-demand vs. carrying inventory, and how powerful it is to leverage a community of veterans.
Join the veteran business community in Houston as we speak with retired Navy Chief Matt Johnson about navigating entrepreneurship.
This conversation focuses on the realities of running a business after serving in the military. Whether you are a veteran entrepreneur looking for guidance or simply want to understand the local landscape in Texas, this discussion highlights the specific challenges and opportunities available to those who have served.
<...Veteran Business built a 7-figure Commercial Cleaning Business and now works 5 hours per week.
How he started from Columbia to start a 7-Figure Commercial Cleaning Business in the U.S. Learn how he runs it with only 5 hours per week.
7:10 Two deployments (Final Fury) (Iraq) over two years
13:55 David's story of why he retired from the Army
17:15 Entrepreneurship is passes down in families
20:50 Family business went belly-up then bounced back
22:55 Running his business from Columbia 5 hours/wk.
33:30 Using Affiliates to pay you $$$$$$$ for referrals
38:36 When he figured out pricing points & competition pricing
42:15 Danger of going above and...
