The Veterans Entrepreneurship Task Force (VET –Force) steps up for New Markets Tax Credits for Veteran Owned Small Businesses. Ask a Veteran and you’ll get help!

The Help Desk asked VET – Force, Chaired by Rick Weidman of Vietnam Veterans of America, to acknowledge an ongoing problem that Veterans  (especially Service Disabled Veterans) have trouble accessing capital for small business ventures. Their answer was swift and forceful. By unanimous consent the VET – Force group, consisting of over a dozen Veteran [...]

What started in Las Vegas for Veteran Small Business is now spreading to Texas

One of the most difficult things about planning a strategy to sell anything to the federal government is guessing what contract officers are like. Most people don’t have the opportunity to get to know them personally, and this is a serious problem. Building on the work of CVE, and taking a new approach to veteran [...]

TVC’s help desk goes to Las Vegas and can tell what happened there!

Having been to an earlier version of the National Veteran Small Business Conference I wasn’t ready for the magnitude of positive change for the 2008 participants. The depth of the educational sessions were above par, and the attitude towards all the Veteran small business attendees was noteworthy. I was fortunate enough to be on a [...]

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    I'm Jim Mingey and I travel across the country in my jeep helping service disabled veterans build businesses. This is a journal of my days changing people's lives.