Barry Coates of SCORE
Barry Coates of SCORE
Barry Coates is District Director for SCORE Georgia. Nationally, SCORE consists of a team of over 10,000 volunteer business mentors who are all ready to help your small business survive—and thrive—through any crisis. Barry had a successful career with a large corporation, executed a year stint as an entrepreneur himself, and has been an active SCORE volunteer for 7 more years.
His perspective on SCORE as well as the challenges of entrepreneurship is broad and deep. We discussed things like:
- How the SCORE mentoring process works
- It’s mentoring, not consulting!
- The amazingly broad range of skills, knowledge and insight available from SCORE
- Barry’s personal business journey and how it relates to SCORE
- A really cool success story!
- Other tools and resources available
- Getting started
The notion of serving community by helping entrepreneurs succeed and thrive is fascinating. Check it out!