SYRACUSE -- The Entrepreneur Boot Camp for Veterans program is underway at Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management. The free program helps veterans with service connected disabilities learn everything they need to know to become entrepreneurs.
Many veterans, especially those with service connected disabilities, can have a tough time finding jobs when they get out of the military. The Entrepreneur Boot Camp program helps them learn the basics so they can start their own businesses, but they call it boot camp for a reason.
The Entrepreneur Boot Camp for Veterans program was started at the Whitman School of Management four years ago. The program is growing and is now offered at six schools across the country.
Ray Toenniessen assistant director of the Entrepreneur Bootcamp for Disabled Veterans program has a simple mission. "There is no business training for disabled veterans in this country so when the program was founded it was founded to fill that niche," he says.
Jesse Canella broke his back while serving with the Marines in Iraq. Canella hopes the skills he learns this week will help him expand his website Honorvet.org, a non-profit start that seeks to help vets with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. "It's really exciting. It gives a lot of guys the motivation and the confidence that they may not have had coming here," he says.
The Entrepreneur Bootcamp for Disabled Veterans program runs through July 24th at Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management.
The program is completely free for veterans with service connected disabilities.
