Jeff Shuford
Recognized in international academic literature as a “Nationally Syndicated Business & Technology Columnist” (Proceedings of the International Conference, 2025, p. 34), Jeff Shuford bridges peer-reviewed artificial intelligence scholarship, national business syndication, and sovereign B2G technology infrastructure. In 2025 alone, four independent academic books and conference proceedings indexed on Google Books cited his foundational work across Healthcare Predictive Analytics (p. 121), Biophysiological Nursing Research (p. 254), AI Disability Accessibility (p. 34), and Smart City SDG Infrastructures (p. 220).
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Recent Trends in Artificial Intelligence and IoT
Ch: "Advancement of Data Visualization Techniques in Healthcare" (§2 Literature Review)
“Md. Shohel Rana, and Jeff Shuford [4], examine the revolutionary effects of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, emphasizing how decision support systems and predictive analytics are transforming patient care through their research AI in Healthcare: Transforming Patient Care through Predictive Analytics and Decision Support Systems.”
Biophysiological Measures in Nursing Research
Clinical Predictive Analytics & Patient Monitoring Reference
“Jeff Shuford. 2024. ‘AI in Healthcare: Transforming Patient Care through Predictive Analytics and Decision Support Systems.’ 1 (1) https://doi.org/10.60087/jaigs...”
Proceedings of the International Conference
International Conference Proceedings · Reference [21]
“Shuford, ‘The Contribution of Artificial Intelligence in Improving Accessibility for Individuals with Disabilities Jeff Shuford Nationally Syndicated Business & Technology Columnist,’ vol. 2, no. 2.”
Meeting SDGs in Smart City Infrastructures: Federation
Smart City Federation & Sustainable Infrastructure · Ref [647]
“Jeff Shuford, Md Mafiqul Islam, Exploring the latest trends in artificial intelligence technology: a comprehensive review, (ISSN 3006-4023) 2 (1) (2024).”
Co-founder, National Invest In Veterans Week® · Founder, Veteran Business Super Intelligence (VBSI℠)
2006–07
Spouse
Owned by design.Concept card · not an official record
Jeff Shuford
Iraq veteran of 2006–07, Combat Action Badge recipient and military spouse, building the data, tools and observances that put capital behind veteran-owned business.
Co-founder of National Invest In Veterans Week®, entered in the Congressional Record in 2024, and founder of Veteran Business Super Intelligence (VBSI℠), an open-data engine for veteran founders. A marketing strategist and nationally syndicated columnist whose family legacy runs from The Five Satins to the veteran economy.
Collector-style concept card for National Invest In Veterans Week®. Not an official military or government document.
From doo-wop to veteran enterprise, on the record
Jim Freeman was one of the founding members of The Five Satins, the New Haven group behind the 1956 ballad "In the Still of the Night." Because he helped found the group, honors entered in The Five Satins' name are part of his legacy. Jeff Shuford carries the family's place in the record into veteran entrepreneurship as co-founder of National Invest In Veterans Week®.
- 1956The song
In the Still of the Night
1956The Five SatinsReleased 1956 · per Iowa House Resolution 36The ballad recorded by The Five Satins, a group Jim Freeman helped found, became one of the best-known doo-wop records in America. Iowa’s 2001 resolution marked its 45th anniversary.
- 1994Congressional Record · U.S. Senate
Tribute to Bill Baker of The Five Satins
August 19, 1994Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.)Vol. 140, No. 118“His big break came in 1957, when he was invited to replace lead singer Fred Parris in the Five Satins…”
“I wish to recognize the contributions of Bill Baker to American music history.”
A Senate floor tribute to Bill Baker, who sang lead for The Five Satins from 1957. It recounts the group’s hits, including “To the Aisle.”
- 2001Iowa House of Representatives
House Resolution 36 honoring James “Jimmy” Freeman
Adopted May 4, 2001Reps. Steve Richardson and Mark Smith79th General Assembly · filed April 10, 2001The resolution recognizes Freeman as a pioneer of American rock and roll who, as a member of The Five Satins, recorded “In the Still of the Night.” It credits him with writing “To the Aisle” and “Wonderful Girl,” and notes his 1995 United in Group Harmony Association Hall of Fame induction and 1998 Pioneer Award from the American Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame.
- 2009U.S. Court of Appeals · Seventh Circuit
Janky v. Lake County Convention and Visitors Bureau
August 3, 2009Opinion by Judge Terence T. EvansNos. 07-2350, 07-2762 & 08-1606“It became popular in the 1950s and 1960s with the arrival of groups like The Five Satins (“In the Still of the Night”)…”
A federal appeals court, deciding a copyright dispute over a doo-wop song, cited The Five Satins and their signature ballad in a footnote tracing the history of the genre.
- 2015Congressional Record · U.S. House
Honoring New Haven Native Fred Parris
April 23, 2015Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.)Vol. 161, No. 60 · p. E568“…Fred got together with Jim Freeman, Lou Peebles, Eddie Martin and Stanley Dortch to form the Five Satins…”
Honoring the group’s founder and lead singer, the House record names Jim Freeman among the original members who formed The Five Satins.
- 2024Congressional Record · U.S. House
Celebrating Invest in Veterans Week
March 8, 2024Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.)Vol. 170, No. 42 · p. H1049“Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to celebrate this week as Invest in Veterans Week as proclaimed by Montana Governor Gianforte.”
The House floor record celebrates the observance co-founded by Jeff Shuford, carrying the family’s place in the record from American music into veteran entrepreneurship.
James "Jim" Freeman
Honored by the Iowa House of Representatives, 2001
- Pioneer of American rock and roll, in the resolution's words.
- Recorded "In the Still of the Night" as a member of The Five Satins.
- Wrote "To the Aisle" and "Wonderful Girl," as credited in the resolution.
- United in Group Harmony Association Hall of Fame, 1995.
- Pioneer Award, American Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame, 1998.
- Iowa resident since 1970 and an Iowa business owner for two decades as of 2001.
Source: Iowa House Resolution 36, 79th General Assembly. Named a founding member in the Congressional Record, April 23, 2015.
Jeff Shuford
Veteran entrepreneurship advocate · Founder, VBSI℠
- Co-founded National Invest In Veterans Week®, held March 1–7 each year.
- Congressional Record, March 8, 2024: the week celebrated on the House floor.
- Montana proclamation: the 2024 House remarks cite the week "as proclaimed by Montana Governor Gianforte."
- Founder of Veteran Business Super Intelligence (VBSI℠), an open-data engine for veteran founders.
- Columnist, including Entrepreneur en Español.
Source: Congressional Record, Vol. 170, No. 42, p. H1049.
Sovereign by design
Why Jeff Shuford publishes his code, research and tools on his own domains.
Jeff Shuford owns the domains, content, datasets and code that make up the VBSI℠ estate, and he decides what goes live and when. Most technology leaders publish through someone else: a corporate board, an institutional publisher or a third-party platform with its own rules. Shuford runs a network of self-managed domains, investinveteransweek.com, veteranbusiness.si and veteransuperintelligence.com, that work together as one ecosystem under one brand.
Open by default. Owned by design.
The code, data and research are free to use with credit. Where they live, how they are presented and when they change stays with the person who built them.
Why publish on your own domains
Self-publishing is a deliberate exercise in digital independence. It lets the work ship on the author's schedule, builds search authority for the author's brand, and gives government buyers one place to see everything.
No editorial gatekeepers
Publishing on his own domains means no repository approvals, no publisher review and no corporate compliance sign-off before a script, dataset or tool goes live. Shuford decides the timing, the format and the license.
The estate includes a Data Sovereignty & Trust Ledger, a deliberate focus on keeping the data infrastructure independent and under his direct control.
- Ship on the author's schedule. A tool can go from build to live the same day.
- Set the terms. Open datasets are released under CC BY 4.0, chosen by the author.
- Keep the record. Pages, files and history stay in one account the author controls.
Search authority stays home
When code, data tools and research frameworks live on his own domains, the search value they earn builds his brand instead of someone else's.
Host code on a third-party repository and that platform's domain collects much of the search authority. Host it under the Veteran Business Super Intelligence (VBSI℠) banner and every link, citation and visit points back to VBSI, with the aim of ranking for government-procurement and "Super Intelligence" searches.
- Every page is a marketing asset. Traffic to a tool is traffic to the brand.
- Structured for search. Pages carry schema.org markup so datasets and apps can appear in Google Dataset Search and rich results.
- One canonical address. Citations point to the original, not a copy.
A B2G-ready ecosystem
In business-to-government contracting, one polished, unified platform does more than a link to a fragmented third-party site. The estate pairs Action Systems, a Knowledge Base and data snapshots, so it reads like an institutional research portal.
Interactive tools such as the Veteran Investment Return Calculator sit next to the registered and service-marked brands (NIVW®, VBSI℠) and the legislative documentation behind them.
- One front door. Tools, data, research and documentation under one brand.
- Evidence on the page. Sources, methods and caveats published beside every number.
- Ready to adapt. Branding and content can shift with federal priorities without waiting on a platform.
Where the credit goes
Search engines reward the address that earns the links and citations. The same tool can build someone else's domain or your own.
Published on a third-party platform
Links and citations point to the platform's address. Much of the authority accrues there.
Published on the VBSI estate
Links and citations point to VBSI's own domains. The authority compounds for the brand.
Third-party platform vs. the VBSI estate
Self-publishing wins on control, branding and search. It also gives some things up. Marking the trade-offs plainly is part of the credibility.
| Question | On a third-party platform | On the VBSI estate |
|---|---|---|
| Who approves a release | Platform rules, publisher review or employer sign-off | The author. Publish when it is ready. |
| Where search authority builds | Mostly on the platform's domain | On the author's own domains |
| Branding around the work | The platform's layout, navigation and recommendations | NIVW® and VBSI℠ branding from first click to last |
| Data and license terms | Platform terms sit on top of the author's | The author sets the license (CC BY 4.0 for open data) |
| Speed of change | Waits on reviews or platform changes | Same-day updates |
| Discovery by developers | Built-in audiences, stars and forks | Earned through search, outreach and columns |
| Collaboration | Issue trackers and pull requests built in | Handled directly with the author |
| Infrastructure | Run by the platform | Hosted on a commercial platform under the author's own account; the author is responsible for content and code |
Publish the original on the VBSI estate. If a copy goes to a public code repository for developers to find, link it back to the original page so the citations and search credit keep pointing home.
What a procurement officer can check in one visit
A buyer judging a small business looks for proof that the work is real, documented and maintained. A single estate makes that proof easy to find.
On the estate now
Visible today across the three domains.
- Working tools, not mockups: 13 browser apps plus a speed test, Zulu clock and NIVW countdown.
- Open datasets with sources, methods, caveats and a stated license.
- Machine-readable markup so search engines and data catalogs can index the work.
- Consistent identity: NIVW® and VBSI℠ marks, one design system, one voice.
- Published thought leadership, including a column in Entrepreneur en Español.
Ready-to-answer list for federal buyers
Common questions in software and data reviews. Worth a page each.
- Accessibility statement describing keyboard, screen-reader and contrast support.
- Privacy statement for each tool: what runs in the browser and what, if anything, leaves it.
- Version history with release dates, and checksums for downloadable code.
- Software bill of materials for code releases that use outside libraries.
- Security contact and a short vulnerability-disclosure policy.
Self-published and running now
Every one of these is built, hosted and branded on the VBSI estate. No outside store, no outside approval.
In print beyond the estate
Self-publishing the tools does not mean working alone. Shuford's columns run in national outlets, and those bylines point readers back to the estate.
Deshazte de estos cinco hábitos si quieres el éxito empresarial
«¿Lo que está haciendo realmente hace crecer su negocio? Miremos más de cerca.»
- Hustle over healthPriorizar el ajetreo sobre la salud
- Romanticizing entrepreneurship instead of workingIdealizar el emprendimiento en lugar de trabajar
- Too much time on social mediaDemasiado tiempo en redes sociales
- Low-return hobbiesPasatiempos de bajo retorno
- ProcrastinationLa procrastinación
Discipline over noise. The column argues for cutting what does not move the business forward. Self-publishing applies the same rule to distribution: no waiting, no middle layer.
Automate and delegate. The column's cure for procrastination is to automate or hand off routine work. The estate's tools do that for veteran founders: data pulled, scored and published in one place.
Bylines that point home. An outside column builds reach; the estate keeps the tools, data and search credit under the VBSI℠ banner.
Outlet bio: "Nationally Syndicated Columnist & Social Impact Executive."
Digital independence, by design
Publishing on his own domains lets Shuford adapt his branding quickly to shifts in federal priorities, protect his data and privacy settings, and capture search real estate for his brand, without waiting on an outside platform or gatekeeper.
Jeff Shuford across The Business Journals
One contributor profile. Forty-four metro business markets. On the American City Business Journals network, Jeff Shuford's byline carries a single profile ID — 39778 — that resolves in every market. Change the city in the address, and his profile loads for that metro. The map below plots all 44; click any beacon to open that market's profile.
About the contributor
Jeff Shuford is president of Tech From Vets, a veteran-owned technology company in Jacksonville, Florida. Tech From Vets merges NFL veterans and military veterans in the technology industry and builds websites and mobile applications for clients nationwide.
Source: The Business Journals contributor profile, bio 39778 (“Contributing Writer”). His columns run in the Media & Marketing, Career & Workplace, and Technology sections.
How one profile covers 44 markets
Every Business Journals metro shares the same site structure. The contributor ID stays fixed; only the city slug changes:
www.bizjournals.com/austin/bio/39778/Jeff+Shuford
www.bizjournals.com/seattle/bio/39778/Jeff+Shuford
Swap the highlighted city for any market below and the profile follows.
The national map
Each beacon is a Business Journals market where Jeff Shuford's profile resolves. Click a beacon to open that market's profile in a new tab; filter by region to focus the map and the directory below.
Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets (lower left). Honolulu carries Pacific Business News.
Market directory
All 44 markets, each linking straight to Jeff Shuford's profile on that paper. Search by city, state, or publication; the region buttons above also filter this list.
Jeff Shuford: nationally syndicated columns
Jeff Shuford's small-business and marketing column ran through More Content Now — the GateHouse Media syndication network — in 2019, and was reprinted across more than 30 daily newspapers from Oregon to Delaware. Every column is below, with where it ran and how to read it.
5 ways to improve your content marketing distribution strategy
How to get your content in front of more people after you publish it.
How to enhance your video marketing strategy for 2019
Why video is the No. 1 way to reach mobile customers, and how to use it.
5 Simple ways entrepreneurs can learn to heighten their chances of a successful business career
Long-term habits that raise the odds of a lasting career.
Ran in 4 newspapers
How to attract more customers to your small business for free
Low- and no-cost ways to bring new customers through the door.
Ran in 9 newspapers
7 skills to turbocharge your digital marketing performance
The skills to raise your digital marketing performance.
Ran in 5 newspapers
6 skills successful entrepreneurs possess
The skills that separate successful founders from the rest.
Ran in 5 newspapers
5 ways to develop a strong small business brand
Building a recognizable small-business brand customers trust.
Ran in 2 newspapers
5 excellent benefits of storytelling for startups
Why startups should not postpone storytelling, and what it does for growth.
Ran in 2 newspapers
5 unique ways small business owners can increase their odds of long-term success
Strategic moves owners can make to improve their long-term odds.
Ran in 2 newspapers
5 essential truths 'wantrepreneurs' must understand before quitting their day job
Hard truths to face before you quit your day job to start a company.
Ran in 5 newspapers
Seven strategic ways to increase attention to your company
Strategic ways to increase attention and leads for your company.
Ran in 3 newspapers
5 super simple ways to improve your franchise business' marketing
Simple ways franchise owners can sharpen their marketing.
Ran in 2 newspapers
Social selling tips to increase lead generation
A social selling plan to increase lead generation.
Ran in 3 newspapers
5 ways entrepreneurs can become better business leaders
How entrepreneurs can grow into respected leaders.
Ran in 1 newspapers
Developing a beneficial brand identity strategy for your business
Building a brand identity strategy for long-term growth.
Ran in 2 newspapers
Why brand positioning should be part of your company's digital marketing strategy
Why brand positioning belongs in your digital marketing strategy.
Ran in 3 newspapers
Read more of Jeff Shuford's work
Durable author archives where his columns and articles are collected.
Where the columns ran
The daily newspapers that carried Jeff Shuford's More Content Now column in 2019.
Compiled by Veteran Business Super Intelligence℠ · Sponsored by National Invest In Veterans Week® · Columns © their respective publishers; originally distributed by More Content Now (GateHouse Media). · veteransuperintelligence.com
Veteran data, open to everyone
Every VBSI dataset in one place: VA disability compensation by county, veteran lending and credit, owner diversity, state relocation rankings, advocacy and the military family. Free to download and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Seventy VBSI datasets are already indexed in Google Dataset Search.
VA Disability Compensation by County, FY 2025
County-level counts of U.S. veterans receiving VA disability compensation on September 30, 2025, for 3,144 counties and county equivalents. Each county carries total recipients, combined service-connected rating bands (0-20%, 30-40%, 50-60%, 70-90%, 100%), age groups and sex, plus SBA-certified service-disabled veteran-owned firms in the county and straight-line miles to the nearest major military installation, with five county rankings. Built from the Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics FY 2025 release. Small counts are suppressed; aggregates only.
All files (11)
- Combined JSON
.json - All CSVs
.zip - All counties
.csv - States
.csv - Outside U.S. counties
.csv - Flyover: largest
.csv - Flyover: highest 100%
.csv - Flyover: installations
.csv - Flyover: SDVOSB gaps
.csv - Flyover: younger
.csv - Flyover: women
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VBSI Sand Table baseline datasets
The baseline behind the VBSI Sand Table: 131 datasets in 13 families covering veterans and the force by state, vetrepreneur firms and owner diversity, business capabilities, the frontier and connectivity, advocacy and legislative support, capital and lending, federal training reach, credit conditions, the military community, military children and the next generation, and military spouses and caregiving. 3,961 rows across the 50 states and national series. Aggregates only; counts under 5 are shown as under 5.
VBSI Open Data Vault, FY2019-2024
Fourteen datasets on U.S. veteran entrepreneurship: SBA 7(a), Express, 504 and Microloan lending to veterans and average loan sizes, USDA farm lending, federal training program reach, Federal Reserve credit conditions for veteran-owned employer firms, Census ownership change by industry, FINRA financial resilience, SBA-certified firms by congressional district, capabilities by certification, profile activity, veteran AI and SI firm projections, military installations and the SI Desert Index. 927 rows in all. Aggregates only; counts under 5 are shown as under 5.
All files (16)
- Combined JSON
.json - All CSVs
.zip - sba-loans
.csv - sba-average
.csv - usda-farm
.csv - training
.csv - sbcs-veteran
.csv - finra
.csv - abs-change
.csv - districts
.csv - cap-cert
.csv - activity
.csv - structure
.csv - ai-si
.csv - installations
.csv - desert-index
.csv
Veteran Founder Relocation Index
Ten datasets ranking the 50 states for aspiring veteran entrepreneurs on the density of fellow veterans, certified veteran-owned firms, business momentum, defense demand, household broadband, state taxes, rural reach and official National Invest In Veterans Week support, combined into a balanced relocation index. Includes military spouse capability, childcare and caregiving measures and a Montana spotlight. Aggregates only.
All files (12)
- Combined JSON
.json - All CSVs
.zip - index
.csv - comrades
.csv - vobs
.csv - rural-broadband
.csv - support
.csv - spouses
.csv - evidence
.csv - capabilities
.csv - montana
.csv - presets
.csv
Veteran Owner Diversity Datasets
Five datasets on the diversity of certified veteran business owners in the United States: Black American, women, Native American, Hispanic and Asian American ownership across SBA certification, the Federal Reserve credit survey, Census ownership change and FINRA financial resilience, by state and congressional district. Connects certification data with employer-firm survey data that is rarely compared side by side. Aggregates only; counts under 5 are shown as under 5.
Vetrepreneur Intelligence Advocate Tracker
A tracker of elected officials and public figures who have supported National Invest In Veterans Week and whether they were reelected, including the 124 South Carolina sponsors of House Resolution 3825 and advocates such as Montana Governor Greg Gianforte and the Douglas County, Oregon commissioners. Includes reelection rates, votes won and a statistical test of whether supporting the week is associated with reelection. Aggregates and public election records only.
How to use this data
Each dataset is free to use, share and build on under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Please credit Veteran Business Super Intelligence. Figures are aggregates; counts under 5 are suppressed, and no personal information is included.
- Formats
- Every release offers CSV files and a combined JSON file; most also offer a zip of all CSVs.
- Finding it in Google
- Seventy VBSI datasets are already indexed in Google Dataset Search, published on veteranbusiness.si. This page carries structured metadata for each featured release so Google can index these as well. The button at the top shows the full set; each card links to its own result.
- Sources
- Primary U.S. government and research data: the Department of Veterans Affairs, SBA, the Federal Reserve, the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Department of Defense and others. Each dataset's page lists its sources.
- Updates
- Datasets are rebuilt when a new source release is published. The version and update date appear on each card.
Veteran Business Super Intelligence℠ · Sponsored by National Invest In Veterans Week® · Data CC BY 4.0 · veteransuperintelligence.com
🫡Our Team
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President Angel Shuford
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) | Army Veteran
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Retired U.S. Army First Sergeant Kevin D. Shoun
Senior Advisor | Civic Leadership and Policy Development
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Sara Pomposo
Chief Advisor | Audience Growth & Strategic Syndication
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Jim Freeman of The Five Satins
GRAMMY Hall of Famer | Brand Ambassador
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Pastor Ron Henson
Social Impact Advisor | Navy Veteran
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LTC Rickey L. Pope USA, Ret.
CO-FOUNDER | Retired Army Veteran, Retired Firefighter
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Jeff Shuford
CO-FOUNDER | Iraq War Veteran & Military Spouse
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CO-FOUNDER | NFL Veteran & Military Brat
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Trademark Attorney | Veteran IP Advocate
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Advisor | Retired Army Veteran
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Legacy UX/UI Designer | Army Veteran
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Creative Director | Army Veteran
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Co-Founders Pup | Biewer Terrier
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Lonnell McCall I
Sr. Spokesperson | Retired Navy Veteran
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Legacy IT Consultant | Army Veteran
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Jr. Spokesperson | Military Brat
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Lead Video Spokesperson | Veteran Advocate
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