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What Do I Do If My Business Runs Out Of Cash?

YoungUpstarts

If the situation is dire, you may also consider recapitalizing the business through a debt refinancing or by selling equity. See if you and your finance staff can answer these questions: When did my business become unprofitable, and what caused the change? How do I Turnaround an Unprofitable Business? What are my top 3 costs?

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. When the company hits potholes, Flexible VC investors usually don’t have the nuclear options of firing management and/or doing a recapitalization. Further reading: The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Finance: A New Typology.

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Silicon Valley Frontlines: Two Tales of "Working For Equity"

philipsmith.typepad.com

a year burn rate and your equity is worthless due to numerous recapitalizations and bridge loans from investors then either you don't get it or I'm stupid to do it. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. The second example came along just this morning. Save to del.icio.us. |.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors: Part 2.

venturehacks.com

If an advisor can uncork a million dollars of your company’s latent value with 15 minutes of conversation or a single introduction, you should pay him appropriately. The company is acquired, recapitalized, or otherwise restructured and the advisors are no longer useful or desired. Normal advisors The normal advisor gets 0.1%-0.25%

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Finance where needed. I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US. We need some visibility. Cut where needed. Fawk, man.

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