Are you a Black Veteran Entrepreneur (BVE) with a great business idea and passion for serving your community? Are you struggling with articulating and bringing your vision to life?

Black Veteran Entrepreneur: Validate Your Business Model, Build Your Brand, and Step Into Your Greatness, is a playbook for BVEs written by BVEs. Naval Academy graduates and military officers, "IRON" Mike Steadman and Alana M. Abernethy, believe that Black Veteran Entrepreneurs represent the biggest untapped resource we have in America today. Why? Because when we rise up, we take our community and family with us.

In this book, you will learn:

• To identify what makes a good business idea or nonprofit organization
• How to get from an idea to an invoice
• How to niche down or create your own marketing category
• Tools of the trade that make successful entrepreneurs

Black Veteran Entrepreneur gives a voice and entrepreneurial roadmap to BVEs across the country. Read it, implement it, and, most importantly, pass it along-what's the point of making it to the mountaintop if you're the only one up there?

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