When investors picture an entrepreneur, military veterans might not be the first people who come to mind. But the qualities that help startup founders succeed are exactly what you’ll find in most veterans. To better understand the parallels between military service and entrepreneurship, we spoke to four such veterans-turned-entrepreneurs (in one case, a veteran-turned-entrepreneur-turned-investor). Putting your team ahead of yourself is a principle the very best CEOs and the majority of military leaders embrace. Of course, once they found a new purpose through entrepreneurship, they still had to deal with all the challenges of being a startup founder (not to mention some people’s preconceptions about veterans).

Source: Forbes November 09, 2021 13:17 UTC