Army veteran turned investor-entrepreneur wants to hear your ideas

Army veteran turned investor-entrepreneur wants to hear your ideas
By BILL MURPHY JR.
Stars and Stripes
Published: September 28, 2011
WASHINGTON — Know any millionaire entrepreneurs? You do now.

Meet Joseph Meyer, Army veteran and private equity investor. The businesses he’s started or invested in over the past 20 years, he says, are now worth a half a billion dollars.

If you’re a servicemember, family member or veteran who has a great idea for a new business and who is sincerely looking for advice or mentorship, Meyer says he’s interested to hear from you. You can email him at jm@meyercap.com.

Meyer credits the leadership skills and character traits he honed while on active duty in the 1980s for his success in business, at least once he’d learned to translate those skills to the civilian world. Now, he wants to help others achieve success.

“I look at kind of my whole military background and where I am today and I kind of chuckle,” Meyer said. “If you take a look at what I’m doing now, it stems from the fact that I could get into a situation, understand all the things that are going on around me very quickly, and see where the gaps are. … I’m able to do that because of how battalion commanders and company commanders would give you 10 minutes or two days, whatever it was, to do an operations order. You sat down and said, ‘Well, here are the resources I have and what I don’t have.’ And you did it quickly.”
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