Business briefs: Program to help veterans, service members start businesses

Program to help veterans, service members start businesses

The U.S. Small Business Administration has recently launched the Boots to Business REBOOT program to help veterans and service members, including National Guard and Reserves, and their spouses start their own businesses.

Boots to Business REBOOT is a free two-step program — step one is a daylong training event that provides participants an overview of business ownership as a career vocation, an outline and knowledge of the components of a business plan, a practical exercise in opportunity recognition, and an introduction to available public and private resources. The training event takes place from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 18, in Room 110 in the Cedar Building at Western Nevada College in Carson City.

Step two provides the opportunity to enroll into a free, eight-week online Foundations of Entrepreneurship course instructed by a consortium of professors and practitioners led by the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University.

To register and for more information, go to http://nsbdc.org/education-training/business-training-calendar/. Participants also can RSVP by calling 775-240-0356.