What steps do I need to make to create my own investment group?

[Billy Barnes]

Hello everyone, my name is Bill and I am a novice real estate investor here in the southern Denver area, though I haven't done my first deal yet, I am hoping everyone here at biggerpockets I can potentially change that. Over the past year I have passionately been trying to learn everything I can about Real Estate Investment; I have studied hard in college classes, followed multiple online mentors, I have read multiple books, read countless articles, watched several hours of YouTube videos, joined several FB pages to network on, and extensively studied everything on Biggerpockets. Now I would like some advice on where to go from here.

My business partner and I and both US Army Veterans who have decided to pave our own way. A short summary of us would be after getting out of the Military we became very dissatisfied with "normal" civilian life, so we decided to apply the skills we learned and our resources as Veterans i.e. GI Bill to create the life and lifestyle we both want for our families and ourselves.

After studying REI for the past year we have decided our goal would to ultimately put together an Investment group to secure Commercial Real Estate starting here in Colorado. I guess my question would be how do I network and find potential investors and what advice would you give us ultimately to get this off the ground? We are completely dedicated to this idea and no matter what we will give this everything we have.