Veterans and sports stars turned out to be 1.2 trillion dollars for a heterogeneous entrepreneur.

Editor's note: There are two special groups of American entrepreneurs. The first is veterans, the group's entrepreneurial ratio is quite high, 2007 statistics show that the total number of veterans founded 2.4 million enterprises, accounting for the United States total enterprises of 9%, the total creation of revenue of 1.2 trillion U.S. dollars, and provide nearly 5.8 million jobs. And those American baseball, ice hockey, tennis, basketball stars, most of them involved in the franchise line, has become a trend.

We put these two types of entrepreneurs together analysis, hope to be able to the domestic creators can have enlightenment.

One night at the end of 2007, Robert Dyer and his friends surrounded the campfire, and came up with an idea for the industry: designing a military nutritional supplement. The bonfire was in Afghanistan, and Dyer's friends were soldiers and officers of the United States Marines, who were still in service.

"Our mission took about a week or so to get supplies on the fifth or sixth day, but we didn't have a lot of food on hand, and almost everyone was using some supplements," he said. Dyer said the bonfire conversation became an opportunity to ruckpack the concept of "http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/8780.html" > Products-a single bottled, Super nutritional supplement, can provide soldiers with the daily needs of the various types of nutrition, but also for those who need a lot of nutrients in the body. After retiring in 2009, Dyer did his best to promote the concept.

Today, his company has 10 employees and has introduced easy-to-use nutrition injections as their main push product. On the ruckpack.com site, users can mail this product to relatives and friends who serve abroad.

In the United States, there are a number of veterans entrepreneurs like Dyer, and according to data from the US Veterans SME Management (SBA Advocacy) in May 2011, Veterans ' entrepreneurship is 45% higher than average. Veterans prefer entrepreneurship, which seems to have become a consensus. The SBA study found that veterans with more than 20 years of service scored the highest in their willingness to start their own businesses, with the strongest entrepreneurial tendencies among those who served in the military.

And those sports stars, they prefer to join the way to start a business. NBA player Jamal Mashburn has played for the Hornets team, has been selected All-star lineup, now, his briefcase filled with various franchise contracts, including 37 Papa johns,34 Outback Home steakhouses,3 Donuts, as well as Kentucky's biggest Toyota dealership contract and so on.

From the NBA to the NFL (American Football League), the NHL (a professional sports union made up of ice hockey teams in North America), sports stars start franchising after they become famous, and expect greater commercial success in the United States.

An investment group, led by Super Bowl league champion Keyshawn Johnson, has created a chain of bakery--panera Bread in the Central Coast of California with NFL star Reggie Bush and other elite sports chains; The NBA Milwaukee's main junior Bridgeman has created a franchise empire, including 162 Wendys and 121 Chilis restaurants, in his 12-year career as a professional athlete, bringing him more than 500 million dollars a year. Jamba 2.4bn recently signed a contract with tennis star Venus, which opened five retail outlets in Washington.