Programs
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Fast Trac for Veterans
As members of the military complete their service and transition to civilian life, entrepreneurship is a viable option to consider. The commitment to excellence, inner drive and focus on success honed during their years of service are valued characteristics veterans bring to their business ventures. Recognizing the ways in which military veterans might apply their […]
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FastTrac
Kauffman FastTrac is a global provider of education courses that equip aspiring and existing entrepreneurs with the business skills and insights, tools, resources, and networks to start and grow successful businesses. At the core of each FastTrac course is a community of peers; classmates to support and encourage one another to pursue their startups or […]
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0Founders School
The Kauffman Founders School taps the potential of online education, presenting a robust curriculum from which entrepreneurs can learn anywhere, anytime. Subject experts present lectures that are embedded in modules designed to give founders a rich learning experience, engaging them in lessons that will make a difference in what they do in their business today, […]
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0Kauffman Foundation
Entrepreneurs are critical to the long-term health of our economy. The Kauffman Foundation works to advance entrepreneurship education and training, to promote startup-friendly policies, and to understand what new firms need. Kauffman’s entrepreneurship work is national in scale and global in reach. Our entrepreneurship strategy supports entrepreneurs in the U.S. by expanding signature education programs, notably Founders School, FastTrac, […]
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0Post-9/11 Veterans and Military Spouses (Veteran Career Transition Program, VCTP)
Transitioning from the military to careers in civilian business/industry, government and other careers often presents two challenges: How to translate education, experience, skills and training from a military to civilian environment to be a competitive candidate for recruitment and hiring? How to develop the soft skills necessary to succeed in a civilian corporate or government […]
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0Boot to Business Reboot
Boots to Business Reboot is a two-day training program that provides participants an overview of business ownership as a career vocation, an outline and knowledge of the components of a business plan, a practical exercise in opportunity recognition, and an introduction to available public and private resources. Step one is the Introduction to Entrepreneurship course […]
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0Transitioning service members (Operation Boots to Business: From Service to Startup, B2B)
Operation Boots to Business: From Service to Startup, operated by the IVMF, is offered by the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University (SU) in cooperation with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). A three-phase training program developed to introduce and train transitioning service members to business ownership, Boots to Business begins during the service […]
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0Veteran women, active duty and female family members (Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship, V-WISE)
Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (V-WISE), offered in cooperation with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), provides the tools women veterans, active duty and female family members need to become successful entrepreneurs. V-WISE enables women veterans to find their passion and learn business-savvy skills to turn ideas or businesses into growth ventures. A three-phase […]
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Caregivers and family members – Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans’ Families (EBV–F)
The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans’ Families (EBV-F) is an education and training program founded in 2010 at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University (SU), which expanded to Florida State University (FSU) in 2012. The program leverages the flexibility inherent in small business ownership to provide a vocational and economic path forward for military family members […]
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0Veterans with disabilities – Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans (EBV)
The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) is a one-of-a-kind initiative that leverages the skills, resources and infrastructure of higher education to offer cutting-edge, experiential training in entrepreneurship and small business management to post-9/11 veterans with service-related disabilities (estimated at up to 30 percent of the 2.5 million post-9/11 veteran population). The EBV opens the door […]