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May 27, 2026

She Was Trusted with a Military Hospital, But Denied a Business Certification

Kathleen went to Boston and attended V-WISE with 200 other veteran and military spouse entrepreneurs. What she found there would change the trajectory of the company she and her daughter had spent years building against systems that repeatedly failed to recognize what they were already qualified to do.

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May 5, 2026

Why This Veteran Keeps Building Businesses Just to Sell Them

Nick Green built one of the largest self-storage operations in outstate Minnesota, growing it from 24 units behind his father's shop to 454 units across 100,...

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March 31, 2026

He Had an Emmy, a TEDX Talk, and Zero Confidence He Could Run a Company

For a lot of veterans, the hardest part of starting a business isn't the business. It’s believing the skills they built during service are strong enough to bet on themselves outside of it.

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100,000 Strong

March 3, 2026

IVMF Helps 100k Veterans and Military Spouses Bet on Themselves

They didn't all come to IVMF with a 5-year projection and polished business plan. Some came in with an idea scrawled on a napkin. Others showed up with nothi...

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