Small Business Administration To Host Veterans Small Business Forum
Veterans who attend the event will join small business experts from federal, state, and local organizations. The focus will be on starting and growing your small business.
Category: Veteran Owned Business Industry News
Business Matchmaking Comes to Pasadena Convention Center
Business Matchmaking is one of the most successful public-private programs of its kind and has facilitated over 88,000 meetings resulting in several billions of dollars in contracts already granted to participating small businesses.
Fewer Veterans Starting Businesses; New Program Will Train Veteran Entraprenuers
Veterans made up only 6% of all new entrepreneurs last year, compared to 12% in 2000. That’s a 50% decline in new veteran owned businesses. From 1999 until 2008, veterans started their own businesses at a greater rate than civilians, but from 2009 on, civilians have outpaced veterans in starting new companies. To help resolve this problem, the military is expected to launch a program to offer help starting a business to the approximately 250,000 who leave the military every year.
Attn SDVOSBs: Winter 2012 Issue of VetLikeMe Newsletter is now available
GAO agrees with SDVOSB companies that the VA should consider SDVOSBs first. This does not mean that an SDVOSB wins a specified contract, but GAO agrees that, according to PL 109-461, SDVOSB must be considered first
Entrepreneurial Development Training for Veteran Women (V-WISE) Comes to Jacksonville, Florida
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has partnered with Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, to provide veteran women with a unique training opportunity to start or grow a business. This training is open to current veteran women, active-duty women who are transitioning out of the military in the next 24 months, and a spouse or female partner of a veteran.
Judge Allows Department of Veterans Affairs to Ignore Veteran Preference When Awarding Contracts
On November 27th, U.S. Federal Claims Judge Nancy Firestone ruled against a bid protest filed by a Maryland veteran owned business. Firestone said the VA didn’t violate a 2006 law by awarding an emergency notification service contract without first considering bids from veterans. The award was one of at least 18 that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said were unlawful.
New York City Offers Disaster Relief Funds To Help Small Businesses
Businesses that have been displaced for at least three weeks can apply for a grant of up to $10,000 to help with repairs, supplies and other storm-related expenses.
