capital into the business and not money, but we needed some skills that we currently didn't have >> beth shissler and her portland, maine, based company sea bags were at a cross roads. beth's business partner hannah kubiak wanted a change. and while the company had been growing fast beth knew she had to do something to make sure it reached the next level. >> if the company got busier you know hannah had a desire to kind of step back from the day-to-day, and i still had the vision to see the company grow and add more employees and scale it up. >> beth and hannah thad co-owned the brand which hannah had founded, since 2006. sea bags makes things like dotes, duffels and bucket bags from used sails. >> it become very clear in order to make any adjustments for either of us that we were going to have to raise some money. i couldn't afford to do it by myself and wasn't prepared to do that by myself. >> before she could restructure anything beth needed new partners. ones that would ideally add both cash and some savvy to the business. >> we wanted the product to continue to be made in maine. we wanted th