Workshops & Seminars

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Get a Mentor Meet with one of our volunteers to get free face-to-face business mentoring.

A series of workshops that are "Personal" so participants and speakers have the opportunity to interact in a more direct way - asking questions and getting answers from experts. These workshops cover a variety of topics to help new and existing businesses.

Wednesday May 16, 2012 6PM - 8:30 PM Click here to register

How to get a Business Loan

Location:SCORE offices, Whitewater Building, 43-100 Cook St., Suite 104, Palm Desert, CA 92211

Cost: $25

Lines of credit, microloans, SBA loans. Want to learn about the many options for financing your small business? There may be more options then you think. A panel of lenders will be discussing these topics and more.

Meet the Panel:
Stacey Sanchez is Senior Community Loan Officer with CDC Small Business Finance. CDC Small Business Finance is a private non-profit and a direct lender for SBA microloans and SBA 7(a) loans up to $250,000.

Don D'Ambrosia is President and CEO of Oxygen Funding, Inc. Oxygen Funding provides cash advances secured by A/R (Accounts Receivable) for small businesses.

Stephen Leung is the Lender Relations Specialist with the United States SBA and will give you real world advice about SBA loans and programs.

Stuart Bailey, Vice President of First Foundation Bank, is responsible for generating loans, bank and investment deposits and other bank products and assets by developing new relationships. He specializes in assisting clients in meeting their financial goals through many unique products and services offered at the bank.

Wednesday May 23, 2012 6PM - 8:30 PM Click here to register

The 'Sales-Masters' Forum: The Most Important things to Think, Ask, Say and Do. When you Really want that Order!

Location:SCORE offices, Whitewater Building, 43-100 Cook St., Suite 104, Palm Desert, CA 92211

Cost: $25

Score's Senior Business counselor, Bruce Pascal, former President of several Fortune 500 companies and past President of the Sales and Marketing Executives of the United States, has over 70 years of sales force management and business leadership experience. This former head of Castle and Cook Foods (Dole Bananas & Pineapple, Star Kist Tuna), and of Bauch and Lomb, (lenses and optics, Ray-Ban Sunglasses, etc.) has negotiated contracts and sold many billions of dollars in products world wide. He has addressed and presented sales and marketing techniques and strategies to hundreds of major companies in the US and Overseas.

Andy Lorenz has been a SCORE business Counselor since 2006. He is a retired Silicon Valley CEO, and founder of a number of high tech manufacturing and industrial distribution firms in the US and overseas. He is an inventor, patent holder, manufacturer, licensor to manufacture and sell dozens of technical products in Europe, Japan, and worldwide. The businesses he established enjoy annual sales over $200 million per year and today employ over 250 people.

Wednesday June 6, 2012 6PM - 8:30 PMClick here to register

Patents Copyrights and Trademarks

Location:SCORE offices, Whitewater Building, 43-100 Cook St., Suite 104, Palm Desert, CA 92211

Cost: $25

About the Event
Topics to be discussed by the Panel include the following subjects:

• The mandatory steps to obtain a Patent, Copyright or Trademark;
• What it costs to get a Patent, and what it costs to defend it;
• What you can expect to potentially realize from your creativity;
• Should you manufacture your product idea, or should you license others to make and/or sell it;
• When and to whom can you disclose your ideas to others;
• The basics of obtaining effective and defendable legal protection for your ideas, inventions, trademarks and business names.

About the Panel

• William G. (Greg) Lane, Esq. - Patent Attorney
• Nicholas (Nick) Kraushaar, Esq. - Attorney, Mediator, Litigator
• Andrew K. (Andy) Lorenz - Inventor, Patent Holder, Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, Marketeer,Score Counselor