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CSUSM Veteran Entrepreneurship Program
CSUSM Veteran Entrepreneurship Program
fostering a community of veteran entrepreneurs
Helping Veterans
The College of Business Administration (CoBA) Veteran Entrepreneurship Program is responsible for assisting veterans, at no cost to them, in starting their entrepreneurial businesses through experiential teaching and research. Moreover, the program creates and fosters a growing community of veteran entrepreneurs. Veterans have the training, leadership skills, and perseverance necessary to become successful business owners. What many veterans need is the guidance, mentoring, and seed funding to create the networks and structures that will power their new ventures.
Student Cohort Size
FREE for Participants
Hours per Week
Average hours/week needed to dedicate to the program
Program Overview
The Veteran Entrepreneurship Program (VEP) turns local Veterans into Local Business Leaders! The VEP draws upon the skills, resources and infrastructure of CSUSM to offer a world-class experiential training in entrepreneurship and small business management. The VEP helps foster economic opportunity by focusing on supporting veteran business ventures by transitioning skills learned from the military to skills needed to run successful businesses. Veterans Ventures can expect to receive a top notch education to successfully launch a new business venture coupled with proven mentorship.
Program Starts
Stage 1: Online Module (1 month)
Online portion of programs begins
Transition
Stage 2: Weekly Meetings (2-3 months)
Transition to weekly meetings -- Topics covered in meetings
Pitch Competition
Competition Week
Follow Up
Stage 3: Follow Up (3-10 months)
After Program Opportunities
Additional Post Program Support
Success Stories
Important Dates
Fall 2024 - TBD
Application deadline
Fall 2024 - TBD
Orientation week
Program Eligibility
Veterans from all branches of the military, including the National Guard, qualify to participate in the program. In the selection process, preference will be given to CSUSM student veterans and their immediate family members (spouse and/or children).
Veteran Seed Fund
In order to encourage and support aspiring, entrepreneurial veteran students, alumni and their families at CSUSM, we have created the CSUSM Veterans Startup Seed Fund. The fund grants this community access to pivotal, early-stage micro-funding, on which their businesses depend in order to progress. The goal of this program is to create more viable, founder based CSUSM born veteran owned companies. The fund is designed to provide capital directly in support of qualifying CSUSM veterans who are experimenting with business startups and product commercialization. Examples of such support may include early prototyping, web or application development, brand development, legal services and more.
For more information, please reach out to Mark Monahan at mmonahan@csusm.edu