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From Artillery Officer to Business Owner (opens the original)
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I sat down with Dan Maxwell, one of four Army veterans who own Summit Point Leadership. Most of their work is training frontline leaders at rural electric co-ops, and Dan says you couldn’t ask for a better customer. I met Dan at Rice and pushed him into Al Danto’s acquisition class.Dan doesn’t sugarcoat what buying a company takes. He signed a personal guarantee, and he’ll tell you you’re “essentially buying a job.” Be convinced of the company and its cash flow before you talk price, and expect
Where Veteran Policy Gets Written (opens the original)
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I sat down with Zach Federico, who runs the veterans task force at ALEC. He got there sideways. A commander walked into his rehearsal at Liberty University and offered to pay him to play music, which is how he wound up in the Virginia National Guard Band. He was a brand new executive assistant when a barely advertised roundtable packed out, and he turned that room into the first new ALEC task force in over 15 years.ALEC is a nonprofit where state legislators trade what worked. The process is mor
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