444 - Entrepreneurship for Military Veterans with Bernie Stone

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Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Challenges and opportunities of Entrepreneurship for Military Veterans - a discussion with entrepreneur and combat veteran Bernie Stone. What are the particular challenges and opportunities for military veterans if they want to transition to entrepreneurship? How does Bunker Labs help military veterans and military spouses start and grow successful small businesses and startups? Bernie shares his experiences, tips and insights based on his transition from a military career to business ownership. A retired Army Officer and Afghanistan Combat Veteran, Bernie served overseas for fifteen years and served in five U.S. Embassies as a Diplomat. Through various organizations he helps others launch and grow successful businesses.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How of Business with your host, Henry Lopez, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. And now, here is your host. Welcome to this episode of the Howa Business. This is Henry Lopez. And my special guest today is Bernie Stone. Bernie,
0:22.3	welcome to the show. Thank you. I really appreciate it. I'm glad to have you. Bernie and I know each other,
0:28.3	and I'll share more in a moment as to how that is. But what are the particular challenges and opportunities
0:34.5	for military veterans if they're thinking about transitioning into
0:38.7	entrepreneurship. And how does Bunker Labs, which Bernie Stone works with as a volunteer,
0:45.9	how does Bunker Labs help military veterans and military spouses start and grow successful
0:51.8	businesses and startups? So Bernie is with me today to share his experiences.
0:57.1	He's former military as well.
0:59.2	So how did he make that transition?
1:01.3	And how does he help other is one of the tips and insights that he has to offer for combat military veterans in particular in making that transition, not just them but their spouses,
1:13.0	that transition into the world of entrepreneurship. To receive more information about the
1:18.1	Howa Business, including the show notes page for this episode and how you can continue to
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1:29.3	the howab business.com.
1:31.2	So let me tell you a little bit more about Bernie has a tremendous background, but Bernie Stone is
1:35.9	the managing owner at Strategic Holdings, where he invests in zebra companies, and I'll explain
1:41.7	what a zebra company is, because I had to look that up.
1:45.0	Zebra companies as a seed stage and angel investor.
1:49.0	And he's also the founder and president of strategic scouts consulting, where he leverages his
1:55.2	incredibly diverse skills and experiences to solve clients challenging problems and bring order to chaos, which is often
2:02.7	what we have in small businesses.
2:04.5	He's also the founding, as I mentioned, the founding city leader for Bunker Labs in Des Moines, Iowa,
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