Guides
January 28, 2026
How To Find A Business or Career Mentor
Have you ever felt stuck in your career or business? Are you hitting a wall when it comes to understanding how to get better at what you do, or unsure what the next steps on your path are? Sounds like you’re in need of some mentorship. So, since January is National Mentoring Month, let’s talk about it.
By IVMF
July 29, 2025
How To Integrate AI Into Your Business: A Practical Guide for Veteran and Military Spouse Entrepreneurs
The general feeling pushed in the entrepreneurship spaces is adopt the emerging technology, or get left behind. In fact, incorporating an AI use-case is key to attracting investors in 2025.
By IVMF
April 23, 2025
Unlocking Procurement Contracting For Veteran Entrepreneurs
Procurement contracting offers a wealth of opportunities for veteran entrepreneurs, providing avenues to grow their businesses through government and corpora...
By IVMF
April 2, 2025
How To Get Your Business VOSB or SDVOSB Certified
The Small Business Association (SBA) has taken over the Veteran-owned Small Business (VOSB) and Service-Disabled Veteran-owned Small Business (SDVOSB) certif...
By IVMF
April 1, 2025
How to Pitch A Business: Pitching 101
Every sales call, networking introduction, employee interview, and most first-contact communication is a type of pitch. Learn how to pitch your business with confidence.
By IVMF
March 14, 2025
A Veteran’s Guide for How To Publish Your First Book
A lot of veterans want to publish a book. Often, it’s a memoir with stories about their military service. Some veterans might have dollar signs in their eyes...
By IVMF
February 9, 2025
Pitching 102: What Goes in The Pitch?
Your pitch communicates two ideas about your business as clearly and concisely as possible. First, you need to clearly explain what problem your company solves and how you do it.
By IVMF
February 8, 2025
Pitching 103: The Leave Behinds
The post-pitch generally encompasses two things, fielding questions about your pitch, and figuring out your leave-behind strategy.
By IVMF
January 9, 2025
Pitching Pro Tips
There are a handful of key concepts that are common to every successful pitch. If you nail these, you have a shot at success.
By Chris Carlson
October 23, 2024
The Spookiest Things No One Warns You About Business Ownership
It’s spooky season, and to celebrate we’re going to talk about some of the most terrifying aspects of business ownership! Owning a business can be a high-pre...
By neconnor
June 18, 2024
Veteran and Military Spouse-Owned Businesses to Help Your Next PCS move
It’s PCS season, and hundreds of thousands of servicemembers and their families will face the daunting task of moving across state or even national lines. Pi...
By IVMF
January 22, 2024
How To Choose a Business Tax Structure
We'll discuss the five most common business structures: sole proprietorship, general partnership, limited partnership, LLC, and corporation to help you find the right fit for your company.
By IVMF
August 29, 2023
How To Choose a Business Name
Choosing a business name is an important choice that can hurt or help your business for years to come. It deserves some real consideration.
By IVMF
September 2, 2022
How to Write a Short Bio (With Examples for Military Transition)
We gave bio-writing some steps and structure so you can craft something you’re confident in that represents you and your brand.
By IVMF
January 1, 2022
5 Tips For Military Servicemembers To Choose the Right CSP/ SkillBridge Provider
Some call the Department of Defense SkillBridge programs one of the best kept secrets in the military. Arguably the biggest challenges of servicemembers transitioning is bridging the gap in their skill set to a civilian career field.
By IVMF
January 1, 2017
How to Manually Add Licenses & Certification to Your LinkedIn Profile
To Manually Add Licenses & Certification to Your LinkedIn Profile please follow these steps:
By IVMF