Craig Wilson
Managing Director, Future Labs
Active duty US service members, veterans, and military spouses
12 weeks. Applications for VET-I Spring 2023 will be open on November 16. Deadline to Apply is January 11. For more information about the next cohort, please email vfl@nyu.edu
Almost 50 percent of World War II veterans and 40 percent of Korean War veterans owned or operated their own companies, according to Syracuse University. Today, just 4.5 percent of the more than 3.6 million men and women who have served in the U.S. armed forces since September 11, 2001, have launched their own businesses.
We seek to raise that figure through the Veterans Entrepreneurship Training (VET) program. NYC-centric entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and our team at the Veterans Future Lab offer a curriculum that features a capstone project, hands-on experiential learning, and mentorship. You’ll graduate able to leverage learned entrepreneurial skills into new ventures and career opportunities. Graduates of VET-I are eligible to enroll in an upcoming Veterans Entrepreneurship Training - Level II (VET-II) program.
The VET-I Spring 2023 program will be held online on Wednesdays from January 25 - April 12, 2023
The program is split into three parts:
Classes touch on prototyping, customer channels, business models, legal and accounting matters for startups, and more. Upon completion of the program, students are awarded a VET certificate from the NYU Tandon Future Labs.
Graduates of VET-I are given priority access to the follow-on entrepreneurship training program, VET-II, held every summer.
All course fees for admitted students will be subsidized.
Participants must attend all classes, complete all coursework, pitch a venture/idea in class a minimum of three times, and submit a capstone project.
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