Stage 1 Funding

stage 1 funding is a small business finance company. we work with business owners and entrepreneurs to help build their companies, and access the growth capital they need. our team of finance experts, led by president joseph b. hilton, grandson of legendary american business icon conrad hilton, founder of hilton hotels, our management team has over 75 years of business building and corporate finance experience. company background: in october, 1996, two young entrepreneurs, jim byrd and shane hackett, launched their first company on one simple principal – that small business is the most powerful engine in this great american economy, but has been neglected by the power brokers on wall street and in washington. byrd and hackett founded their company to teach business owners how to start and grow a small business, and access needed capital. it was just two of them and a handful of employees in 1996, and from those humble beginnings byrd and hackett grew that business to over $100 million