ConnectWorking.
Networking, EVOLVED.
BizVetsConnect³ is a nonprofit business community for veteran owned, startup, and active duty owned businesses across the Fort Campbell region. Networking trades cards and hopes for the best. ConnectWorking puts you in the room with Primary Service Advocates who connect, transact, and refer, so business actually gets done. Co-founded by Tim Shank. Veteran centered, not veteran exclusive.
Regional Status
KICKSTART FOUNDING RATE
Lock in $29.99/mo for life
CIVIC RECOGNITION
Voted Clarksville's Best Representation
COMMUNITY REACH
Connector Events at both Clarksville library locations
NETWORKING MODEL
ConnectWorking: Networking Evolved
MEMBER ADVOCACY
Backed by Primary Service Advocates
We saw a real need, and felt a burden to meet that need. That's a true honor.
Tim Shank
Co-Founder
Now Recognizing
Outstanding Veteran Friendly Businesses 2026
Once again, BizVetsConnect³ is proud to recognize some outstanding local veteran friendly businesses that have been singled out in our market. These businesses will be recognized, and their identities shared, after an awards event held late in October.
Many of these terrific businesses will already be known to you, and some are hidden gems that deserve your attention. As always, we are proud to acknowledge and recommend these recipients as terrific local finds, providing fantastic services and products to our veteran and active duty families.
Stay tuned. Nominations are being hand delivered.
Nominations are closed for this year's OVFB recipients, but we always welcome your recommendations for businesses you feel are remarkable.
Launch Your Startup Success.
BizVetsConnect Launch is our Mini MBA for founders: refined, perfected, and tailored to you. Connect with every Primary Service Advocate, get the services your business needs, generate your own ad, and post your business on our site to reach a large audience of local clients. Stop procrastinating. Become a Kickstart Supporter for just $29.99 a month and launch with us.
Become a Supporter →Our Mission
Built to Help Local Business Win
BizVetsConnect³ is a nonprofit organization providing real support to veteran owned, startup, and active duty owned businesses. We do it three ways: we bring people together, we teach what works, and we put local businesses in front of the community.
Hosting Connectors
Live events where business owners, potential clients, and Primary Service Advocates meet face to face and get to know one another. Open to the public, built for real introductions.
Training Events
One day workshops and multi week courses like our Mini MBA, taught by the local businesses that provide essential services such as lending, tax prep, and insurance.
Marketing Presence
Web and social exposure that puts BizVetsConnect³ businesses in front of the community, so the right customers find the right local owners.
Key Services
The Local Expertise You Plug Into
AI Automation and Pipeline Generation
We put modern AI to work for our members and Primary Service Advocates: automated lead pipelines, smart outreach and follow up, and marketing workflows that run while you run your business. Less busywork, more booked business.
The Growth Framework
ConnectWorking.
Networking, EVOLVED.
Networking had its day. Trading business cards, chasing cold referrals, working a room full of strangers. ConnectWorking is what comes next: a clear path that carries a business from the first handshake to real growth. Connect, Solve, Build, Scale.
Our motto:Connect. Transact. Refer.
Connect
Build genuine, high trust relationships with local owners. No forced pitches, no referral quotas, no pressure.
Solve
Bring a real business problem and leave with a decision, a template, a referral, or a finished plan.
Build
Lay the foundations of a working business: pricing, systems, sales, hiring, and leadership.
Scale
Step up to larger customers, contracts, employees, and regional growth with the right support.
Who It's For
Built for Every Stage of Business
From your first customer to your next contract, BizVetsConnect³ meets you where you are. Find yourself below.
Startup Builders
You have an idea, a side business, or your first few customers, and you want to build it right.
Stuck Owners
One to five years in, still doing everything yourself, and ready to get unstuck.
Scaling Employers
You have a team and real revenue, and the growth is getting complex.
Contract Ready
Chasing government and institutional work and need to be bid ready.
Strategic Partners
Banks, accountants, attorneys, insurers, and firms that serve and strengthen local business.
Explore
Everything BizVetsConnect³ Offers
Meet Your PSAs
Trusted local pros in insurance, tax, web, lending, and more.
Open →Community Resources
Free local resources we endorse: library, SBDC, job center.
Open →Business Directory
Find veteran owned, military friendly, and local businesses.
Open →Events
The monthly ConnectWorking rhythm and growth workshops.
Open →Sponsored Fans
The businesses our community lifts up, with their ads.
Open →Fan Favorites
The full library of sponsored business ads.
Open →Refer a Business
Nominate a business that deserves recognition.
Open →BizBackers
Institutions backing the mission with leadership donations.
Open →Ready to grow with us?
Taking part is free. When you are ready for everything, a Supporter donation unlocks every supporters only activity and funds our events, ad creation, and community programs. Lock in $29.99/mo for life during our BizVetsCONNECT Kickstart.
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