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Ensure Your Startup Succeeds with a Business Bridge Loan

The Startup Magazine

Managing Cash Flow Difficulties For start-ups, managing cash flow is a perennially talked about issue, with a run rate of operational cost often running ahead of the revenue generation, especially in the early days to stay afloat.

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Bad Notes on Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

It’s simply what a market is willing to pay based on a future belief that your company will grow and non-linear rates and be worth much more in the future. In finance they call it “terminal value” but the truth is the price is as arbitrary at your A round as it is at your seed round. Cashflow projections?

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Startups and VCs Should Avoid “Pier” Funding

Both Sides of the Table

Maybe the market views this as not worth the price you paid? The industry jargon for convertible debt is a “bridge loan&# or “bridge financing.&# It’s called a bridge loan because it’s meant to provide enough capital to bridge you from your last round of funding until your next round of funding.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

According to Lighter Capital ,“ the RBI market has grown rapidly, contrasting sharply with a decrease in the number of early-stage angel and VC fundings ”. However, many industry experts question the accuracy of early-stage market data, given many startups are no longer filing their Form Ds.

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The Basics of Small Business Loans [WEBINAR]

Up and Running

Hopefully I’ll be able to add some value with some of the financing needs that your businesses may need. As I’ve been working in this industry, as Sabrina started out said, I was the Chief Marketing officer of CAN Capital which is a big alternative lender and now I’m the Vice President of SmartBiz SBA Loans. Why is it hard to do that?

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Thoughts on Convertible Notes

K9 Ventures

The convertible note was really intended as an instrument for a “bridge financing” – when an equity round was imminent, and likely to occur, but the company needed some money in between. In that case, it made good sense to have a debt instrument, where the note holder then converted into equity when the financing occurred.

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Bad Notes on VC

Gust

It’s simply what a market is willing to pay based on a future belief that your company will grow and non-linear rates and be worth much more in the future. In finance they call it “terminal value” but the truth is the price is as arbitrary at your A round as it is at your seed round. Cashflow projections? I’m not sure. Actually not.