I am a veteran and wish to start up my gemstone wholesale business. I have little to no capital to invest in the business myself, and my credit score is below 700, which disqualifies me from lenders. I have my mentor's shop to work out of while I get started. All I need funds for is to purchase the product. My only option at this point for funding is the use of a private money lender. I would require a total amount of $150,000. Any insight on where to go to find private money lenders?

I am a Navy retiree, 100% disabled veteran, woman, minority vet. I am soliciting info on how to go about getting my business funded......I am also interested in available grants and contracts....any info will be of tremendous help.

Thanks

I'm an African American Disabled Veteran with a mixture of white, black, and Cherokee Indian heritage. I'm trying to locate all funding opportunities available to me in constructing a facility that will be used to provide purchasable live work lofts to veterans and giving them a percentage of their mortgage back for the first five years to ensure the success of the veterans' business.

Hello, I have been to the "Women Business Center of Fayetteville, NC." They are willing to do my business plan etc. However, They only able to grant me up to $50,000 in start up money threw the SBA. The WBC stated that I may need anywhere from $100,000 to $150,000 to start up my business in this area. I have already found the perfect location etc. I just need the funding. I am also a disabled veteran. I would like to know how do I get the funding for this business? Any ideas would be very helpful. I also looked at the website veteranscorp.org but did not find much information there.......

Background:
We have an RCx company Energy Cost Reducers; we are coming up on our 2nd year and will have our GSA contract applied for by end of this year. We specialize in a specific type of RCx and one of our projects is on one of the largest building structures in our city. They have called us back after about a year of tracking how well our project went and want us to do more. We under promised our goals and over delivered our results by close to twice the amount of savings that they expected.
Opportunity Ahead:

We have been in business since Oct 07. Current payables is tied up at customer but is being paid, slightly late. We want to expand in order to diversify product base with purchase of additional equipment to the tune of about 30k. My personal credit is not bad it is just non existant. I have a personal loan that I have not missed a payment on for 3+ years, have 10 more payments left.
How or who can I go to for this help?
Tks, Ed