My name is Marlon Terrell and I am a LT in the U.S. Navy. I graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2002, where I played varsity football and studied Systems Engineering. After graduating, I joined the Submarine community and became a Nuclear Engineer. During my tenure at Annapolis and on the Submarine, I always had an ambition for business.
After leaving the submarine, I returned to Annapolis to train our future Navy and Marine Corps Officers in addition to obtaining my Master’s Degree in Leadership from the University of Maryland. At this point, I knew it was time. Thus, began the journey to develop my business. Several obstacles were present along the way, but the common struggle I stumbled upon was a lack of liquid funds necessary to propel my company to the next level.
In May of 2011, I visited my friend and current business partner, Avery Robinson. We began catching up as usual and discussed our passion for business ownership and the frustrations that we incur. He asked me if I had ever heard of crowd-funding. At this time, I was new to the idea so we spent hours searching through crowd-funding platforms and learning more about this new way of raising money for small business. Through market research, we quickly realized the void that needed to be filled.
There are several people like myself, who have served the country faithfully to maintain the American dream. Unfortunately, when it is time for these Veterans to pursue their dreams, they often lack the necessary funding and/or the appropriate channel to connect to capital sources. Our initial thought
was, “How can we use this crowd-funding model to help our American heroes?”
At the conclusion of our conversation, RepayVets was born! The only thing we need now is YOU! With your support, we will fund more Veteran’s dreams than any other organization that offers support to our military men and women. Become a hero to our Veterans by repaying them for their service.
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