“If you know anything about me, I’m pretty focus-driven,” Brandon Shelton tells me over the phone. We’re discussing the impetus of the Charlotte Veteran Startup Showcase, and the entity that…
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Veterans played a significant role in the entrepreneurship boom that took place after World War II. While veterans are more likely to be self-employed than their civilian counterparts, the veteran…
Data from the Q3 MetLife & U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Indexindicates that employers are experiencing high levels of confidence about the state of their local economies and their…
Business funding has many options. You may want to start a business but how are you going to pay for it? What type of business are you going to start?…
Diversity and inclusion (D&I) are business imperatives for the venture capital industry, where venture capitalists fund innovative entrepreneurs to enable breakthrough ideas. Understanding the diversity landscape today, including the representation…
When Anne Dwane became CEO of Zinch, the college matching service, it felt like “diving into a pool needing to figure out how to be a synchronized swimmer.” “It was…
Larry Fink is the CEO and chairperson of New York-based BlackRock, an investment management firm. BlackRock manages roughly $6 trillion in assets on a global basis. Because of its sheer…
Brandon Shelton is the Founder and Managing Partner of TFX Capital. In this episode of The Mission Daily, Brandon shares the value of hiring and supporting veteran founders and employees,…
If you’re in your 30s or 40s (or even 50s) and you believe conventional wisdom, you might think the entrepreneurial train has passed you by and it’s too late to…
Last week, nine veteran-led tech startups from across the Southeast came together for the first-ever CLT Veteran Startup Showcase, where they took the stage to compete for a purse worth…
