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As highly successful and experienced business professionals and entrepreneurs, SCORE Western Virginia mentors deliver valuable & practical advice. Whether you are a start-up or an existing business, our business experts will help you and your business achieve new goals!
Enter your zip code below and fill out the mentoring request form. We will pair you with a mentor and assist you in setting up a free mentoring appointment.
Identify your small business needs and desired support.
Request a SCORE Mentor as your advisor to small business success.
Schedule a mentoring session with your assigned SCORE mentor
Set goals for your small business with guidance from your SCORE mentor.
Work with your SCORE mentor through the life of your business.
Our Mentors
My corporate career as head of Sales and Marketing and in general management for a number of...
I can help small businesses startups navigate the requirements to start while also assisting...
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EDUCATION Georgia State University: BBA – Management AMA Seminars for Corporate Executives MILITARY...
The world was kind to me, and now that I am retired I would like to "give back".
After starting, growing, and selling a small business, I feel I have a lot to offer budding...
Assist with new business start-up. Buying and selling a business. Improving existing business...
Mentoring Skills: Business Finance & Accounting, Business Strategy & Planning, Human Resources...
.Buy a business, Funding, Grants, Business plans, Patents, Trademarks, Merger & Acquisitions
Having had a career in sales, I feel that I can help with prospecting and pin-pointing potential...
Mentoring following The Score.org Startup Roadmap, Vision and Idea Development Exploration
Retired 2012 National Sales Manager 2004-2011, for "Ball, Bounce and Sports, Inc., an Outdoor Toy...
Can help business owners with strategic planning, as well as, business operations.
My background allows me to mentor clients in creating a business, securing loans and equity partners...
You want to start a business. You have a skill or knowledge to deliver a product or service to...
With expertise in start ups, provides entrepreneurs with guidance on how to start a business from...
Entrepreneurs Succeed with SCORE Mentors
What is better than one very passionate, forward-thinking entrepreneur working to make a business highly successful? How about two very passionate, forward-thinking entrepreneurs working on your business ownership goals? That is what SCORE offers to all small business owners: mentors who work alongside entrepreneurs to realize their small business ownership dreams.
See how SCORE mentors have made a difference for other small business owners like you.
Roanoke SCORE counselors have made their mark with non-profit businesses like the Feeding Southwest Virginia Food Bank. Started by TAP in 1981, the Food Bank went independent in July, 1999. A number of SCORE volunteer counselors worked to bring the organization to fruition and lay the groundwork for expansion that helped Food Bank reach its present size. Next year the Food Bank should distribute some 15 million pounds of food through three warehouse distribution centers in Salem, Abingdon and Covington. The company has upwards of 50 employees with an additional 800 as volunteer staff
It was 1987 and Tamea Franco Woodward was about to enter a real "man's world" kind of business, anodizing and aluminum finishing. She had contacted SCORE and was working with one of the truly great counselors who have volunteered their services to the Roanoke chapter over the years. Perhaps there was some indecision or just "dilly-dallying," but her SCORE counseler sensed what was going on and really gave her a dressing down. This tough love approach was just what was needed. Tamea left the meeting agitated and smoking, but got her business up and going in short order. EWDC has grown over the
In the 1980’s John Briscoe was a Navy veteran working for the City of Roanoke. Unable to meet bills for his family, Briscoe came upon an idea for a small family business that, with hard work, made all his dreams come true. He and his wife, Ann, had purchased an old Roanoke home with two fireplaces in desperate need of repair. Unable to find anyone competent to give him advice or fix his fireplaces, he decided to leave the City in 1988 and start his own chimney business. Building on his naval background, he researched and studied at night, took courses and passed exams to become licensed and
