equity

“Venture debt is fantastic. I would always recommend that over selling equity. But you have to have the track record and the solid books and finances to be able to do so.”

“No, I don't think it's a good idea to split it evenly, to be honest.”

“We take six percent equity and the startups pay they give us the equity for the program. We give them cash. We give them 15,000 euros cash, but it's not a reflection on the valuation of the company.”

“It took me a long time to figure out how to get equity in the And the businesses I'm involved in, so I'd say go out of your way to make sure you get equity in, in a business that you think has potential.”

“I've started to do that with some people, and it works really, really well, and they're very happy about it.”

“We're having some discussions about some of that, about whether or not we should own the equity, you know, for the entities.”

“32 in equity.”

“I would argue a lot cheaper than equity, and it's still kind of ratchets with you as you grow.”

“And those other platforms, not ours, but those other ones will typically charge between five and 10% of the value of that equity.”

“It's act to me, it's actually more difficult and time consuming to go out and raise debt because you go through the whole to do, then it's like, okay, we're almost ready to start letting you use it. And it's like, ah, well, this other thing. And it's like, you…”

“I think the reason you wouldn't want to do that is because credit is such a bigger Opportunity than equity. There's just more companies that should take credit than should take equity.”

“There should always be a smidge of equity into this goal, right? Like the more you give back to your team and they feel like they have ownership of the organization, The longer they're going to stay”

“So it's just basic rules of founders that there has to be one final decision point. So you never split equity, 50, 50. One person takes more majority and the other person takes less.”

“And you don't want to call it 670,000 dollars because then that has tax consequences. So it's, you know, it's not a dollar valuation. It's a way of figuring out who has what equity.”

“Just splitting equity equally is rarely the right answer. It's lazy. It just means you didn't have tough conversations.”

“We did do the debt financing and you know, we raised 250 K debt and then also two 50 K initially, you know, at 6.5 million valuation.”

“One ratio that I like to look at, this is independently, so this isn't from, you know, any particular firm that, that pushes this agenda, but I like to look at it like a one to you know, one-third on debt and two-thirds on equity.”

“Our debt capital, we have both cheap capital and very expensive debt capital. At some point, the expensive debt capital is worse than equity.”

“One of the things you learn when you sell a company is that at some point in time, it becomes too late. You can't reverse this decision. So you have, from the get-go, you have to decide how you're going to compensate in equity, your founding team, your staff m…”