Yes, it's very hard to start to build a business as a veteran, to be honest. I've been on other panels that discuss this.
Traditional sales roles are not something that veterans are very comfortable with. They have a bad opinion of salespeople because the only time they ever meet them is when they're buying a car or a house, and they don't like those ones. However, they have the skill in them. They just have to know what that is.
Really, for business fundamentals, it could just be quick, small upskilling. You don't have to go and do a two-year MBA or a four-year business degree to learn those skills. A lot of people have started businesses without them, but more of that microtraining, upskilling and enablement would help them. Just getting the business fundamentals of accounting and everything—maybe just for a few weeks—would be a lot more useful than broadly saying that everybody has to go and do an MBA.
That's typically how most people learn their jobs anyway. A lot of salespeople start with a humanities degree, which doesn't teach them how to do sales at all. They learn on the job. They get mentored and become good at it.
That would be an example of it that I see, from the 200 to 300 veteran business owners I work with.