--- title: Veterans Day: Why Women Veterans Make Great Entrepreneurs description: Why women veterans make great entrepreneurs, 'democracy vouchers' vs big money in politics and more. canonical: https://time.com/4108015/women-veterans-entrepreneurs/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-11T14:34:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:59.388Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Women Veterans Make Great Entrepreneurs og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4108015/women-veterans-entrepreneurs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Women Veterans Make Great Entrepreneurs twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Women Veterans Make Great Entrepreneurs by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 11, 2015 2:34 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 11, 2015 2:34 PM UTC **1\.** [**Women veterans are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs. Here’s why.**](http://www.inc.com/kimberly-weisul/why-women-veterans-are-suddenly-entrepreneurial.html) By Kimberly Weisul in Inc. **2\.** [**Can ‘Democracy Vouchers’ dilute the power of big money in politics?**](http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/10/politics/democracy-vouchers-seattle-honest-elections-finance-reform/) By Gregory Krieg at CNN **3\.** [**Climate change could push 100 million people into poverty by 2030.**](https://news.vice.com/article/climate-change-could-push-100-million-people-into-poverty-by-2030) By Eva Hershaw in Vice News **4\.** [**It’s time to create a flexible, portable safety net for workers in the gig economy.**](https://medium.com/@principles/common-ground-for-independent-workers-83f3fbcf548f) By the Portable Benefits coalition in Medium **5\.** [**Your baby should sleep in a cardboard box. Seriously.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/10/why-babies-should-sleep-in-cardboard-boxes-explained-in-2-charts/) By Rick Noack in the Washington Post  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4108015/women-veterans-entrepreneurs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4108015/women-veterans-entrepreneurs/"},"headline":"Why Women Veterans Make Great Entrepreneurs","datePublished":"2015-11-11T14:34:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:59.388Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4108015/women-veterans-entrepreneurs/","keywords":["Innovation","climate","baby","Veterans Day","Gig Economy"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4108015/women-veterans-entrepreneurs/","name":"Why Women Veterans Make Great Entrepreneurs"}}]}] ```