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What are 5 words that describe a Veteran? The Attributes Driving the New Veteran Economy
Curtis Bolton 6/25/26 Curtis Bolton 6/25/26

What are 5 words that describe a Veteran? The Attributes Driving the New Veteran Economy

What are 5 words that describe a Veteran? Strategic, disciplined, adaptable, resilient, and investable. Discover how these five core attributes are driving a new, highly profitable veteran business economy.

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VETERAN BUSINESS SUPER INTELLIGENCE℠ • CAPITAL ACCESS INTELLIGENCE

Veteran Business Capital Gap Observatory

A structured evidence system on how veteran entrepreneurs seek, get and pay for capital. It tracks five separate dimensions, grades every statistic, and says plainly where the evidence is too thin to compare.

The rule of this page: every statistic shows its population, sample period, denominator and source. When a source does not state one of them, the page says so instead of guessing.

MATRIXCAPITAL GAP RESEARCH MATRIX

Six questions, each answered with the best evidence available and an honest status. Wide tables scroll sideways on a phone.

CHARTREPORTED SHORTFALL AND DENIAL, BY DEFINITION

These bars measure different things in different populations. They are shown together so the spread is visible, not so they can be averaged or ranked.

EVIDENCE BY SAMPLE TYPE

EVIDENCE GRADES (A STRONGEST)

DATA YEAR OF EACH VETERAN-SPECIFIC FINANCING STATISTIC

TRACKERCAPITAL ACCESS INTELLIGENCE: FIVE DIMENSIONS

Pick a dimension to see what evidence exists, what is missing, and every statistic with its four required fields and quality checks.

GUARDCOMPARABILITY CHECKER

Press COMPARE on any two statistics above. The checker tests population, definition, denominator and timing before saying whether they can sit side by side.

GAPSDATA GAP REGISTER

Where the evidence is too thin, mismatched or missing for reliable comparison, and what would close the gap.

INTAKEADD A STATISTIC TO THE OBSERVATORY

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Method and limits. Evidence was gathered from the public pages and reports named in each entry; nothing here is a new survey. Quality gates score six checks: denominator stated, sample size known and at least 100, period stated, representativeness, veteran-specific, and recency. Grades are a screening aid, not a verdict on a study. Statistics are quoted as the sources report them, including internal inconsistencies, which are flagged. Where a figure's mapping to a category was unclear in the source text, the entry says so. Ownership breakdowns are shown only where aggregated and published by the source, and describe association, not cause.
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All pulse items (plain text, from the datasets on this site)
  • 34,319 certified veteran-owned firms with a public location in the SBA VetCert snapshot of Oct 4, 2026.
  • 85.5% of them hold SDVOSB certification.
  • 50.8% started in 2021 or later; 16.3% started 2024 to 2026.
  • Most certified firms by state: TX 3,796, FL 3,630, VA 3,249, CA 2,592, GA 2,096.
  • 7,795 of 42,114 certified firms (18.5%) hide their public location.
  • Official acts found: South Carolina 2021, Douglas County OR 2022, Montana 2023 to 2026, Pennsylvania Senate resolution 2026.
  • South Carolina: bill introduced Feb 4, 2021 and adopted Feb 11, 2021, in 7 days.
  • Montana has proclaimed the week four years running, 2023 to 2026.
  • National Invest In Veterans Week runs March 1 to 7 every year.
  • Pattern, not proof: start-year gains beside proclamations do not show cause.
  • Montana: 144 certified firms with a public location, 93.1% SDVOSB.
  • Montana firms started since 2023: 32.6% vs 30.6% nationally.
  • Montana 2024 cohort: 16 of 16 firms hold SDVOSB, vs 90.1% nationally.
  • KRTV reported on March 6, 2026 on a Montana veteran who found a job with help from an employment program during transition.
  • Research Radar indexes 21 records: 19 read, 2 queued.
  • No indexed study uses a causal or quasi-experimental design.
  • Franchising has no indexed research record yet.
  • Open question: does SBA VetCert certification raise the chance of a federal contract? Contract awards are not observed.
  • Policy question: are newly certified veteran businesses constrained by capital in their first three years?
  • Jacksonville Vetrepreneur Summit: 186, 151 and 146 unique registrants in 2017, 2018 and 2019; 448 unique people overall.
  • Between 6% and 10% of later-year registrants had registered in an earlier year.
  • Among 2019 summit registrants who gave a business age, 62% were startups.
  • Jacksonville metro: 305 certified firms with a public location; 19.3% started 2024 to 2026 vs 16.3% nationally.
  • Scenario 2030 (current pace of new certified firms, no exits): top states TX, FL, VA, CA, GA.
  • Pace used: average of 2021 to 2024 start cohorts per state, added for 2027 to 2030.
  • Rank order is stable at the current pace: the top five stay TX, FL, VA, CA and GA; only small moves appear lower down, such as CO 11 to 10 and IL 13 to 12.
  • A what-if, not a forecast: exits, rule changes and certification lags are not modeled.
  • Top capability categories among certified firms: Management and professional consulting 5.0%; Construction 3.5%; Manufacturing and fabrication 3.4%.
  • Capability is one keyword-estimated primary category per firm.
  • Written narratives appear on 38.5% of firm profiles; capability statements on 11.9%.
  • 13.1% of certified firms are woman-owned and 38.4% are minority-owned.
  • 60.5% list a website.
  • Women veteran owners reported larger funding gaps than men in IVMF survey data: 44% could not secure growth funding vs 27%.
  • Veteran firms show higher survival and slower job growth in restricted Census data (Research Radar).

Facts come from the SBA VetCert snapshot of 2026-10-04 (aggregates), published proclamations and reports, and the datasets on this site. This is a data ticker, not a live news wire. The 2030 states view is a what-if, not a forecast. Veteran Business Super Intelligence℠ · National Invest In Veterans Week® · Google Dataset Search

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