For three years before he opened his own business, Greg Modica was a regular at seminars and matchmaking events put on by the Arkansas Economic Development Commission and other state agencies. Modica, a retired first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve, set out to learn as much as possible about running a small business. Government Supply Systems, still based out of Modica's home in El Dorado, was founded in 2009 after a lengthy, self-prescribed learning process. "People laugh at me for it today. They kept seeing me around and just thought I already had a business," Modica said. "All these people knew this guy from El Dorado kept hanging around, and they just figured I was a...
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