By Sascha Cordner
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Tallahassee, FL – About 20 veterans who became disabled during their military service in the last 10 years are going through boot camp all over again in Tallahassee through a certain program. As Sascha Cordner reports, the goal is to teach those veterans business skills during their transition period out of the military into civilian life.
The 4th annual Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities has been underway for about a month, with the veterans taking online classes and having online assignments as a build-up towards the on-campus courses that started on Thursday. The program's director Randy Blass:
"For the next week, they will be in classes out at the [FSU] College of Business, where we will be covering just a whole range of entrepreneurship topics bringing in guest speakers, from all over the country, actually, and guest entrepreneurs and just running them through a very vigorous immersion program."
Blass says the program allows veterans to create an idea or improve upon their own business plans for use in the future. Florida State University is one of 7 schools in the country that offers this type of program.