Beyond the Uniform

“Many Product Managers - most of them, actually - don't have anyone directly working for them. They work with everybody and yet are the owner - and that's a really interesting role. One of the things that I found useful in the military that I translated was: I found - personally - that getting things done, even in the military where it is more hierarchical, that treating people as peers and as experts in their area; that motivating them to get things done without using your direct authority over them was the best way to get things done. And that skill set really translates well to Product Management. "
 – Todd Pringle

Todd Pringle General Manager and Vice President of Product at Stitcher - the podcasting app that many of you are use to listen to this podcast, and was acquired by Midroll. Todd started out at UCLA, after which he served in the Navy for 4 years as part of the Supply Corps. After his transition out of the military, Todd attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business. After this he held a variety of Product Management roles - at Netscape and AOL in the early 2000s, and then eBay, AirPlay and then a company called Yoono. Todd also holds two US Patents

In this conversation, we cover a lot of topics, including:

• An overview of the role of General Manager & VP of Product
• How the role of Product Manager has changed over the last 15 years
• How Todd would approach the Product Manager role if he were starting over again today
• Indications that you may enjoy Product Management, and signs you might dislike it
• An overview of Todd's career in Product Management since business school
• Advice on the decision between joining a startup vs. a more established company
• Things you can do right now to start building a skill set to be a Product Manager
• And much, much more…

• Todd's Company - Stitcher - is my favorite app for listening to podcasts

• 2:24 - Todd's background
• 3:26 - An overview of the role of General Manager & VP of Product
• 5:39 - The General Manger role on a day-to-day basis
• 7:12 - What drew Todd to the Product Manager role after business school
• 11:00 - How the role of Product Manager has changed over the last 15 years
• 12:45 - How Todd would approach the Product Manager role if he were starting over again today
• 15:12 - Indications that you may enjoy Product Management, and signs you might dislike it
• 17:40 - How leadership has differed outside of the military vs. inside the military
• 19:15 - An overview of Todd's career in Product Management since business school
• 24:18 - Advice on the decision between joining a startup vs. a more established company
• 27:52 - Things you can do right now to start building a skill set to be a Product Manager
• 29:55 - Habits that have helped - and hurt - veterans in the civilian world
• 33:29 - How to know when to move on from one company - or role - to the next
• 36:36 - How Todd approached the Reserves 
• 39:09 - An overview of Todd's company, Stitcher
• 43:11 - Some of Todd's favorite podcasts
• 44:53 - Final words of wisdom from Todd

“It's more change than you ever think it will be, because in the corporate world plans change all the time. Everything changes even more so than in the military. Don't expect a table nine to five job where you're just going to sit in the office all day. That's what you imagine when you're in the military - 'Oh, I wish I had more stability and wasn't changing around so much.' But it's just like that if not more in the corporate world."
 – Shaoli Breaux

Shaoli Breaux is part of the Junior Officer Leadership Program at GE Oil & Gas in Houston, Texas. She started out at the Naval Academy, and served as a Surface Warfare Officer for for 5.5 years. After she left the Navy, she stayed at home to take care of her young children for two years. Then, she transitioned directly to General Electric.

In this conversation, we cover a lot of topics, including:

• An overview of the Junior Officer Leadership Program at General Electric
• What the GE Junior Officer Leadership Program looks like on a day-to-day basis
• What it was like to re-enter the workforce after two years of maternity leave
• What Shaoli's experience has been like in the Reserves while at General Electric
• And much, much more…

• GE's Junior Officer Leadership Program: https://www.ge.com/careers/culture/us-veterans/junior-officer-leadership-program

• 1:35 - Shaoli's background
• 2:20 - An overview of the Junior Officer Leadership Program at General Electric
• 3:34 - Examples of the types of rotations available at a program like the GE JOLP
• 5:02 - What happens at the end of the two year rotational program
• 5:55 - An overview of the application process and advice for veterans considering applying
• 7:20 - What the GE Junior Officer Leadership Program looks like on a day-to-day basis
• 9:00 - The most challenging aspect of the GE Junior Officer Leadership Program
• 11:43 - Indications you may be well suited for the JOLP and indications that you may not like it
• 13:20 - What Shaoli wished she had known when she first started the GE Junior Officer Leadership Program
• 15:22 - Shaoli's decision to leave the military and how she approached this decision
• 16:30 - What it was like to re-enter the workforce after two years of maternity leave
• 17:55 - What Shaoli's experience has been like in the Reserves while at General Electric
• 19:20 - In what ways Shaoli felt ahead and behind her civilian counterparts
• 21:30 - Good habits that Shaoli learned in the military that she's tried to maintain, and habits she's had to break
• 23:20 - The most surprising aspects of Shaoli's transition to civilian life
• 26:07 - Advice on how to best prepare for one's transition from active duty
• 28:06 - Shaoli's final words of wisdom

“Prior to the financial collapse and my first day at Deutsche, I was thinking: I’m in finance, I’m on this ladder and trajectory, I’m going to make Director or Managing Director some day, it’s just a matter of time. But then after the financial collapse everything got mixed up, and it was very difficult to make life decisions when you have that cloud over your head. So, over time I started to really question whether that was the right thing for me. And I did a Google search of “which companies have the best culture” and Google came up. I applied through the online portal (“the black hole”) and was fortunate to get a call back and things worked out."
 – Steven Muller

Steven Muller works at Google as a Global Strategic Business Development for Google Play. He started out at the Naval Academy,after which he served in the Navy for four years with the Submarine Force as part of the USS West Virginia. After transitioning out of the Navy he worked for 5 years in the Finance Industry: first at Barclays Capital as their Associate Director - Head of Derivative Client Valuations, North America; then at Deutsche Bank as a Vice President. He then transitioned to Google, where was a Finance Manger for 4 years before his current role. Steven holds an MBA from the Duke Fuqua School of Business and a Master’s Degree of Engineering Management from Old Dominion University

In this conversation, we cover a lot of topics, including:

• What day-to-day life is like at Google
• How Steven made the switch from the world of finance to high tech at Google
• What life was like in the Finance industry during the 2008 meltdown
• And much, much more…

• 2:05 - Steven’s background
• 3:07 - What Steven does at Google
• 4:25 - What Steven’s day-to-day life looks like
• 6:15 - The lifestyle component of working at Google
• 9:30 - Steven’s decision to leave the military
• 14:15 - the day-to-day life in derivatives at Barclays Capital
• 16:02 - How Steven transitioned to Deutsche Bank
• 17:40 - An MBA and whether or not it’s essential for the world of finance
• 19:45 - How Steven decided to move on from the Financial Services industry
• 22:45 - Day-to-day life when Steven first joined Google
• 26:50 - Advice to those looking to work at Google (or in the world of high tech)
• 29:45 - The switch from financial services to Finance Manager at Google
• 35:07 - How leadership differs outside of the military vs. inside the military
• 37:10 - Habits Steven had to break when he left the military
• 39:10 - Common veteran entry points at Google
• 42:40 - Final words of wisdom

“They kept saying: "forget about what job you want, what do you want to do?" It dawned on me and that day I ended up applying to culinary school. That's what I want to do! Forget about this corporate route I'm headed to, forget about business school. Unfortunately, the culinary school I was enrolled in when out of business a month before I left the Army. But it was a great sign that I had already made that jump, that the options were so much broader than I was giving myself credit for. In that sense, teh floodgates were already open in terms of telling myself that I could do this type of work full time. That was the distinct moment from it being a hobby to knowing that I could do this."
 – Annie Taft

Annie Taft is the Founder & Executive director of The Brazen Gourmand, which is a Lifestyle brand for the culinarily curious. She started out at West Point, where she graduated 17th in her class and served in the Army for over five years as part of the intelligence community. When she left the Army, she participated in the Stanford Ignite Program, after which she started three different companies, of which The Brazen Gourmand is one.

In this conversation, we cover a lot of topics, including:

• What it was like starting a company while still on Active Duty, and advice for veterans seeking to do the same
• What Annie's day-to-day life looks like as an entrepreneur
• How Annie knew when to turn her hobby into a business
• An overview of the Stanford Ignite program, and why veterans aspiring to entrepreneruship should consider it
• Additional resources Annie would recommend for aspiring veteran entrepreneurs
• And much, much more…

• The Brazen Gourmand - http://www.thebrazengourmand.com/
• Stanford Ignite - https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/programs/stanford-ignite/campus/post-9-11-veterans
• Vet Tech Trek
• Boots to business
• 1 Million Cups - weekly meeting of entrepreneurs (every week someone pitches their idea, surrounded by likeminded people

• 2:03 - Annie's background
• 2:30 - An overview of Annie's current company, The Brazen Gourmand
• 3:40 - What Annie's day-to-day life looks like as an entrepreneur
• 10:00 - What it was like starting a company while still on Active Duty, and advice for veterans seeking to do the same
• 11:36 - The point at which Annie knew she could turn a hobby into a business
• 20:30 - Some of the challenges Annie faced while starting her company
• 24:30 - An overview of the Stanford Ignite program
• 35:10 - Why veterans should consider the Stanford Ignite veteran track
• 39:05 - Additional resources Annie would recommend for aspiring veteran entrepreneurs
• 42:30 - Final words of wisdom

“Me and Derek went in there and pitched to Mike [Maples] for an hour, 9am the next morning we had a term sheet. And we were about to die. We were running out of money - we pitched to Mike on September 10th, and we got a term sheet on September 11th. If you're not used to taking risks, you're going to have a hard time succeeding as an entrepreneur. I'm $240k in debt; my credit sucks; I lived with my co-founder for three years and we were in our mid to late 30s at the time; I've given up going to weddings, I gave up skiing and surfing for six years, given up love, the list goes on and on the sacrifice."
– Anthony Garcia

Anthony Garcia is CEO and co-founder at GuideOn -a military veteran talent acquisition platform. He started out at St. Mary's University, after which he served in the Army for eight years as a Medical Service Corps Officer and Medical Evacuation Pilot. After transitioning out of the Army, he received his MBA at Cornell University. Since then he has worked as a General Manager at SRI International and the CEO and co-founder of Adjacent Applications. He started GuideOn in late 2014, and has raised funding from Mike Maple’s VC firm - Floodgate, one of the most respected investors in Silicon Valley.

In this conversation, we cover a lot of topics, including:

• Anthony's experience with PTSD and candid advice for other veterans
• The biggest mistakes Anthony made that made his current success possible
• How Anthony raised funding from one of the best investors in the world
• What it's like to hire your father as your Chief Information Officer (CIO)
• How GuideOn is a FREE resource that will translate a veterans resume instantly
• And much, much more…

• Two resources I'd recommend to any and every veteran are:
  • GuideOn - free resume creator tool and, soon, a candidate placement resource. What the White House has called "the Rosetta Stone for veteran placement"
  • Line1.org - built venue for veterans, non-veterans, corporations, and thought leaders to help veterans transition. Free guidance for all veterans

• 3:25 - Anthony's background
• 4:10 - Anthony's decision to leave the Army and how he approached that decision
• 5:27 - Anthony's struggle with PTSD and how he found a way through
• 13:37 - Anthony's thoughts on business school as it relates to entrepreneurship - how the network helped, but also how there are a lot of resources available now for veterans as an alternative
• 16:53 - How Cornell's network lead Anthony to the Co-Founder & Lyft and an introduction to Mike Maples that changed his life
• 19:08 - An overview of GuideOn and how it's one of the best FREE resources for every veteran
• 22:54 - When Anthony first got the idea to start GuideOn
• 26:35 - The most painful failures Anthony experienced after the Army and how that helped him achieve his current success
• 33:03 - How veterans can work with GuideOn - FOR FREE - to instantly create a resume
• 35:16 - Common mistakes that veterans make in their transition to a civilian career
• 40:04 - Anthony's advice for veterans about the fundraising process
• 44:04 - What it's like working with your father when he is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of your company
• 49:27 - Anthony's final words of wisdom

“What I'm saying is that when there is nothing at stake - you're not being paid for it or receiving credit - what are you interested in? If you can figure out what you're genuinely interested in, and you can combine that with what your natural strength is, you have the foundation for planning your future. Until you do that, you're just spinning in the wind. If you ever leave a job without understanding those two things, you're just tossing the dice."
 – Frank Van Buren

Frank Van Buren lives in North Carolina and works at Wells Fargo in their High Yield Sales & Trading Group. Frank started out at the Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, where he did Army ROTC, after which he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the National Guard/Reserve, and then decided to become a Chief Warrant Officer on active duty in the US Army, where served as a Blackhawk pilot for six years. After his transition from the Army, he earned his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has worked at Wells Fargo for the last 18 years, first as part of their Investment Banking group and then as part of their Fixed-Income Sales & Trading groups. He also runs the site, AdviceForVets.com.

In this conversation, we cover a lot of topics, including:

• How to decide between Investment Banking and Sales & Trading
• An overview of the Financial Services industry and where you might fit in
• What Frank has learned from over 18 years in Financial Services
• How to find your dream and uncover what you might want to do for a career
• And much, much more…

Scroll below for links and show notes…

• Frank has a website and blog that he maintains at: AdviceForVets.com

• 1:37 - Frank’s background
• 3:30 - An overview of Frank’s role at Well’s Fargo
• 8:40 - Frank's day-to-day life
• 15:05 - Frank's lifestyle in sales & trading (as compared to Investment Banking)
• 17:45 - Frank's journey from pilot to life as a civilian
• 28:00 - How to find your dream and uncover what you might want to do for a career
• 36:00 - How to decide between Investment Banking and Sales & Trading
• 45:30 - Bad habits that veterans need to break when they leave active duty
• 54:00 - Frank's final words of advice to veterans

“The autonomy is incredible. I think back to my time in the military and the best times I had was when I was flying around the mountains of Afghanistan, and we had a lot of flexibility in the mission we were running. When I think about being an entrepreneur, it's very similar to that in a lot of ways. I love that I can set my own hours and create my own success. That is really exciting and gets my adrelanine going. The bad part is that you don't have a paycheck. If you make a sale and get cash you can take a small salary from there, but there's a lot of unpredictability there. Going into this I didn't expect that aspect of this to wear on me emotionally as much as it does. But it does, and it's real - you just need to understand that that's part of the deal."
 – Chris Shaw

Chris Shaw is the Founder of CORE Leader, the Director of the NY Office of Bunker Labs at the NYU Tandon Engineering School. He graduated from NYU Stern School of Business in May 2016. He started out at Cornell University, where he earned his BA in history, after which he served in the US Army as an Aviation Officer for 8 years flying the Kiowa Warrior armed reconnaissance helicopter. He deployed twice to combat in Afghanistan, most recently as the head of his squadron’s intelligence department in the 82nd Airborne Division.

In this conversation, we cover a lot of topics, including:

• How Chris decided to go to business school rather than industry after the military
• An overview of Bunker Labs, and why every aspiring entrepreneur should consider applying
• Advice on finding a co-founder... and how to make sure you get it right. Chris talks about the biggest mistake he made when starting his company
• The experiences that best help Chris prepare for his life as an entrepreneur
• And much, much more…

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• NYU Stern School of Business
• Chris' second company - CORE Leader
• Bunker Labs - their entrepreneurial program is EPIC
• Leaders Reaction Course
• Tough Mudder - a visit here was one of the catalysts for Chris starting his company, CORE Leader

• 1:50 - Chris' background
• 2:30 - How Chris decided to leave the Army
• 3:12 - How Chris thought about joining the Reserves and why he chose not to
• 3:48 - The most surprising aspect of Chris' transition to civilian life
• 5:20 - A few bad habits Chris had to break when he left the military
• 6:30 - How Chris decided to go to business school rather than industry after the military
• 9:28 - Chris' experience at Stern School of Business and his advice on how to apply and why to go
• 11:10 - An overview of Bunker Labs, and why every aspiring entrepreneur should consider applying
• 15:20 - What Chris' day-to-day life looks like as a Director at Bunker Labs
• 17:40 - An overview of Chris' second company - CORE Leader
• 20:13 - Advice on finding a co-founder... and how to make sure you get it right. Chris talks about the biggest mistake he made when starting his company
• 24:17 - The experiences that best help Chris prepare for his life as an entrepreneur
• 25:38 - What Chris' day-to-day life looks like as an entrepreneur
• 27:44 - What Chris like most and least about his life as an entrepreneur
• 29:30 - Chris' advice for other veterans considering entrepreneurship
• 32:45 - How Chris felt ahead and behind his civilian counterparts
• 36:37 - Final words of wisdom from Chris for all veterans

“I do feel like we had 6 or 7 bet the company decisions all strung together. It felt like I was in Vegas, going to the roulette wheel and just betting on red - over and over again - and depending on each one of those to be right. Startups a lot of is timing. If we had tried to start [SkyBox Imaging] two years earlier, the technologies wouldn't have existed for us to be able to build and point a spacecraft to take a pretty enough picture. If we had come along two or three years later, someone else would have already done this. It just to be in that sweet spot, to thread the needle, I just realize that we just happened to be the right people, telling the right story at the right time."
 – John Fenwick

John Fenwick is Head of Spacecraft Operations at Google. He started out at the Air Force Academy, after which he served for 8 years in the Air Force as a Physicist & Space Acquisitions Officer. He holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford Business School. After business school, John co-founded SkyBox Imaging and served as their Vice President of Flight Programs. Skybox provides commercial, high-resolution satellite imagery and high-definition video and analytics services. SkyBox raised over $91M in funding prior to being acquired by Google for $500M, as reported by the WSJ. SkyBox is now known as Terra Bella within Google.

In this conversation, we cover a lot of topics, including:

• Starting a company and thinking it was only a class project
• How to find co-founders who will complement and challenge your own approach to work
• Advice on raising venture capital from top investors
• Advice on going through an acquisition process
• The ways in which a military background is both advantageous and challenging for entrepreneurship
• And much, much more…

• John's company, SkyBox Imagine, is now known as Terra Bella: https://terrabella.google.com/
• John's investors included:
  • Khosla Ventures
  • Bessemer Venture Partners
  • Norwest Venture Partners (NVP)
  • Draper Associates
  • Canaan Partners
  • Crunchfund
  • Asset Management Ventures

• 2:23 - John's background
• 4:10 - Johns journey in the Air Force and his decision to leave
• 7:35 - How to consider an MBA if you're a veteran pursuing entrepreneurship
• 8:53 - John's advice to those considering applying to business school
• 10:03 - How John went about finding his co-founders
• 11:32 - An overview of SkyBox Imaging
• 13:45 - Advice to veterans in seeking a co-founder for your startup
• 17:52 - Out of a classroom, how John started his first company, SkyBox Imaging
• 19:17 - Advice for those seeking to raise venture capital
• 21:12 - What the fundraising process was like... and what it felt like to raise his first $3M
• 22:57 - Day-to-day life in an early stage startup
• 24:03 - How a military background can help in starting a company, and how it might hold you back
• 28:29 - After raising funding, the next milestone in John's startup journey
• 31:03 - Launching their first satellite
• 35:40 - The acquisition process with Google
• 38:43 - Advice on managing an acquisition process and how to be successful
• 40:58 - Habits to break as you depart from the military
• 42:23 - Indications that a veteran may be well suited for entrepreneurship, and indications that it may not be right for you
• 44:37 - John's final words of wisdom

“I'm in the beauty industry. I'm this ex-combat arms officer who knows way too much about cosmetics now. I think it's really funny. For me, timing really worked out. When we started Soko Glam, I was an Executive Aide to a General Officer. Although my time was really sporadic, for the most part I was in garrison. So I had a lot of time to research and take night classes, research certain things and go out and network. That would be my piece of advice - when you're still in really take the time to meet people and  figure out what you want to do. Do as much reading as possible but you gotta go out there and meet people."
 – David Cho

David Cho is the Co-Founder and CEO of Soko Glam - an eCommerce beauty shop and lifestyle brand with the best selection of Korean Beauty products and content. Dave started out at West Point, and served as a Combat Arms Officer for over 8 years. After his transition from the Army, David attended Columbia Business School, during which he worked at Facebook as a Global Accounts Intern. In this conversation, we cover a lot of topics, including:

• How Dave started an e-commerce beauty company while on active duty in the Army
• What it's like to have your wife as your co-founder
• Resources Dave would recommend to any aspiring veteran entrepreneur
• WhatWhat Dave wished he had known when he first started his company, Soko Glam
• And much, much more…

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• Dave's company, Soko Glam: https://sokoglam.com
• Book Recommendations:
  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
• Website Recommendations:
  • Fred Wilson Blog
  • TechCrunch
  • Google News (personalized to your interests)
• American Corporate Partners - connects veterans with mentors in the civilian workforce
• Google Veterans Summit

• 2:19 - Dave's background
• 2:53 - An overview of Dave's company, Soko Glam
• 4:48 - Finding a co-founder, and what it's like to be married to them
• 11:11 - What Dave's like as a Co-Founder & CEO looks like on a day-to-day basis
• 13:16 - What Dave's lifestyle looks like as an entrepreneur
• 16:33 - What it was like to start Soko Glam while on active duty in the Army
• 19:19 - Resources Dave would recommend when you're preparing to start your company
• 23:30 - Whether or not to consider business school when starting your own company
• 29:07 - How Dave's wife, Charlotte, continued to work on Soko Glam while Dave was at business school
• 29:37 - What Dave wished he had known when he first started his company, Soko Glam
• 32:32 - Some of the best advice Dave received when making the transition from the Army
• 38:15 - Some consistent misconceptions that Dave sees veterans make when he is mentoring veterans going through the transition to civilian life
• 41:30 - How to better know if you'd like a large company or start your own company
• 43:20 - The bad habits that Dave needed to break when he left the military
• 46:30 - The biggest surprises Dave experienced in his transition to civilian life
• 49:20 - Dave's final words of wisdom

“Aim high - aim way higher than you think that you should. Because you have so much to offer and we need your expertise and talent in the private sector; we'd be lucky to have you. But you've gotta go for it. Don't let this be the moment in your career or life where you settle. You've got to go for it. And so let this be the time when you really shoot for the stars because you've earned it - you've earned this opportunity."
– Bethany Coates

Normally, I interview a veteran about their civilian career. In this episode, instead, I interview an amazing company that is helping veterans in their career transition.

BreakLine is an education and employment company that builds an affordable path to compelling careers. Their programs combine skills-based training with professional networking and connect participants directly with hiring managers.

Bethany Coates is the Founder & CEO of BreakLine. She has served as the Assistant Dean at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and has been a consultant at McKinsey & Co. She holds an MBA from Stanford Business School, and a BA from Princeton University.

In this conversation, we cover a lot of topics, including:

• What listeners should know about Breakline Education
• An overview of the upcoming event, Breakline Technology
• An overview of the application process for Breakline Tech
• The strengths and weaknesses that veterans bring to the private sector
• Advice on improving a veteran's resume, LinkedIn Profile, and interview techniques
• And much, much more…

Selected Links

• Another interview the discusses the impact of an immersive program similar to Breakline - Tradecraft - is my interview with RaeAnne Pae (BTU #26)
• Some of the companies that Bethany mentioned that work with Breakline Education are: Medallia, Nielsoft, Box, Andreessen Horowitz, Paypal, BMZ, and LifeLock
• Breakline Tech - an alternative to traditional education and one-stop shopping experience for veterans. This program is an immersive experience with technology companies in the United States.
  • Application Deadline: 12/6/16
  • Cost: $475
  • Duration: 1 month
  • Dates: 2/21/17 - 3/17/17
  • Company immersive experience include: Andreessen Horowitz, Paypal, BMZ, and LifeLock
• Breakline Finance - an immersive program for veterans curious or interested in careers at First Republic Bank and in Financial Services in general
  • Application Deadline: 1/30/17
  • Cost: $75
  • Duration: 1 week
  • Dates: 5/1/17 - 5/5/17
  • Company immersive experience include: First Republic Bank

• 1:51 - An overview of Breakline Education & their founder, Bethany Coates
• 2:55 - What listeners should know about Breakline Education
• 3:35 - How Bethany started Breakline Education
• 7:15 - In Breakline's 8 months of operation, nearly 100 veterans have worked with them. Here's a look at what some of their alumnus have done afterwards
• 10:25 - Common veteran backgrounds for veterans working with Breakline
• 12:38 - An overview of the upcoming event, Breakline Technology
• 19:41 - How many people will join the Breakline Technology group in February
• 23:58 - At the end of Breakline Technology's one month program, what they can expect
• 26:00 - The ideal timing for a veteran to attend the Breakline Tech group
• 28:38 - Indications that a veteran may be well suited to Breakline Tech, and indications that it might not be a good fit
• 31:03 - An overview of the application process for Breakline Tech
• 34:45 - The deadline for applications is December 6, 2016
• 35:10 - An overview of the Breakline Finance experience
• 37:21 - The dates for the Breakline Finance program and the deadline for the application
• 37:40 - An overview of the application process for Breakline Finance
• 38:05 - If you're unable to attend this year's Breakline Technology or Breakline Finance a look at the future schedule
• 38:54 - The strengths and weaknesses that veterans bring to the private sector
• 43:40 - Bethany's advice in regards to improving a veteran's resume
• 46:00 - Bethany's advice in regards to improving a veteran's LinkedIn Profile
• 48:20 - Bethany's advice for how veterans could improve in their interview process
• 49:44 - Bethany's final words of wisdom.