Financing Your Start-Up Business

Description

Want to start a new business? Join the WV Women’s Business Center and guest speaker Erika McGilley for this informative seminar to help you understand the different types of funding for your start-up business. Starting, growing, and expanding your business can require different types of capital at different times. Learn what you can expect and how to prepare to make the most of financing opportunities, plus the various programs to help you get funding.

About our speaker:

Erika McGilley is a Senior Business Lender with Natural Capital Investment Fund. Her primary responsibilities include marketing, deal origination and underwriting for NCIF’s Business Loan Program in Western NC and Eastern TN. In the midst of a successful 20-year career as a Business Development Officer/ Commercial Lender at Community and Regional banks in Maine and Western NC, Erika sought to serve an organization invested with values more aligned with her own: create meaningful and sustainable work through progressive economic development options in harmony with our natural world. Erika has a great deal of experience working with businesses of all sizes but has a special affinity for small business owners having experienced firsthand with her own family the perseverance and tenacity success demands. Erika is passionate about providing access to capital for businesses at the nexus of the economy, alternative energy, local foods, Eco-Tourism and the environment that create jobs.