Thursday May 28, 2015

"Show Me The Money: Financing Your Business Options"

5 of 6 Certificate Program

Date:

Thursday May 28, 2015

 

Time: 

Check-in:   8:15 AM -   8:45 AM

Workshop: 8:45 AM - 12:00 PM

 

Location:

SCORE Chicago/SBA Office

500 W. Madison Street

Suite 1150

Chicago, IL 60661

 

Limited seating, save yours by Clicking Here to pre-register 

Cost:

 

$50.00 - Online Registration 

 

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Show Me The Money: Financing Your Business Options

Understand the various ways you might finance your business and how to approach friends and family, angel investors, banks and venture capitalists. Learn to prepare the documents you will need to submit for each. A guest banker will present criteria banks use to determine credit worthiness and a representative from the SBA will discuss the SBA loan guarantee program.

 

Will discuss:

1. Borrower's qualifications 

2. How do you communicate? Know how to talk to financiers. 

3. Funding Sources: Where do you go to get financing? 

4. SBA Guaranteed loans: All about the SBA loan guarantee 

    program. 

5. Banker's point of view: What is a banker's take on your 

    qualifications? 

6. Follow Up and set backs: What do you do if the banks reject 

    your application?

Larry Pelka Larry Pelka of Chicago, IL has been a SCORE member since 2001 and is currently the Assistant District Director of SCORE in Illinois. He was previously the Chicago SCORE Chapter Chair. Pelka was CEO of Associates Commercial Corp., a world wide commercial lessor and lender with over 12 divisions. Prior to his 22 years with ACC, Larry was the central region manager for General Electric Capital.

 

Dennis Foldenauer

 

is a Supervisory Economic Development Specialist in SBA's Illinois District Office where he conducts outreach on SBA's programs and partners, small business finance and topics of current interest to businesses like the Affordable Care Act. Prior to joining SBA, Dennis represented the US Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Carlos Pena

Carlos is a loan officer at Accion Chicago, a non-profit company that provides loans and access to resources to small business owners and entrepreneurs in Chicago and Illinois. Prior to Accion, he worked as an analyst in Deloitte's Financial Advisory Services group in Chicago, where he conducted research and performed valuations of public and private businesses for financial reporting, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic planning purposes. Originally from Ecuador, Carlos came to the US to attend the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated with a double-major in Finance and Economics. He is fluent in Spanish and English

 

 

Limited seating, save yours

Please Click Here to pre-register

SCORE services are provided on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to race, gender, national origin, or disability   

 

SCORE Chicago/SBA Office

500 W. Madison Street

Suite 1150

Chicago, IL 60661

312-353-4540 

workshops@scorechicago.org

www.scorechicago.org