Mission Accomplished: Top Takeaways from Vets to Ventures in 2025

After a year of growth in 2025 and the celebration of Vets to Ventures’ second anniversary, we look ahead in 2026 with a continued commitment to delivering a tactical toolkit of resources focused on essential legal protections and strategic business planning to help translate military discipline into commercial success.

This year’s articles covered a range of “mission-ready” knowledge, including safeguarding your enterprise with strategies such as liability insurance, commercial lease negotiations, and intellectual property protection, and navigating critical regulatory landscapes, such as veteran employment rights and federal remote work exemptions for military spouses. We also offered guidance on the business lifecycle, including how to draft ironclad contracts and execute mission-critical steps for a successful exit strategy when selling a business.

Beyond the practical frameworks, we brought you stories of people behind the mission – veteran business owners and veteran nonprofits who work every day to assist our service members. We shared inspiring success stories, like that of Green Beret entrepreneur Jason Van Camp and his businesses, Mission Six Zero and Warrior Rising, and how a veteran-owned AI company earned the first and only hallucination-free, fully explainable AI system patent granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We explored why business-friendly states, such as Texas, are top destinations for veteran entrepreneurs. We highlighted personal journeys of veterans-turned-leaders, featuring our own attorneys in a special Veterans Day piece. These stories remind us of how service continues to shape success in the legal and business professions.

From our A&R veterans and our firm, we hope you had a great holiday season! Thank you for reading and for letting us be part of your journey. We are excited to continue Vets to Ventures into 2026 and beyond. 

Here are the links to this year’s V2V stories in case you missed them, and don’t forget to visit our Vets to Ventures blog on our website.

2025 Adams & Reese Vets to Ventures Articles

• Texas: A Business-Friendly State for Veteran Entrepreneurs
• A “Vets to Ventures” Veterans Day Feature: From Service to Success at Adams & Reese
• Planning an Exit Strategy: Top 10 Mission-Critical Steps for Selling Your Business
• Shielding Your Mission: A Veteran Business Owner’s Guide to Liability Insurance
• How Jason Van Camp & His Businesses Have Inspired Veterans
• Protecting Your Mission: A Veteran Business Owner’s Guide to Contracts
• Protecting Your Patent: How a Vet-Owned AI Company Safeguarded its IP
• Reconnaissance is Key – A Veteran Business Owner’s Guide on Commercial Leases
• Military Spouse Federal Workers Exempt from Return-to-Work Mandate
• What Do Businesses Need to Know About the USERRA?