By Bill Murphy Jr.
I first met Joseph Kopser '93 six years ago in Mosul, Iraq. He he was an Army major serving in a cavalry squadron at the time, and I was a reporter for The Washington Post.
Kopser, 42, who retired from the military last week, is now the CEO and co-founder of an Austin, Tex. start-up called RideScout -- a smartphone application that aggregates all of a user's potential ground transportation options in real time, everything from buses and Zipcar to rideshare options with friends or strangers.
On Memorial Day, we remember members of our military who made the ultimate sacrifice. I've interviewed thousands of soldiers over the years. One thing they've told me repeatedly is that the best way to honor that sacrifice is to remember those who gave their lives -- and to live lives worthy of them. Today, I'd like to start telling you about some veterans who do just that. These are men and women who become entrepreneurs, trying to change the world for the better.
Veterans bring amazing advantages to the entrepreneurial game -- things like discipline, perspective, leadership ability, and the learned skill of seeing problems as opportunities -- to say nothing of having accomplished ambitious goals with the weight of a gigantic bureaucracy on their backs.
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