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D 5 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.90
Q know my audience is thinking about. Um, Hey Chris, um, I want to give you a two million dollar loan against your B to B SAS revenues. Um, I can either give you a flat sort of 16% interest rate with a four year payback, or if you want to lower industry, I can give you a 10% interest rate, but with two percent warrants, which deal would you take?
A For me personally, I would rather not give up the warrants, you know, um, You know, uh, cause you know, I mean, the whole purpose of debt is that you, um, that you try to limit, you know, but it depends on how big the warrants are and what kind of a partner it is. I, I wouldn't say it's off the table at all. Um, you know, and if, you know, if you, if, if, if it's a reasonable sort of warrant conversion and, you know, and even you could game it where you could put incentives in place for you to, You know, usually this is a bridge to a private, ideally a private equity round, not another venture round, right? But a private equity round. And, you know, you should be thinking about your sort of how your business is going to mature over the next couple of years, what that ideal, you know, sort of place is going to be. And you could, you know, sort of Sort of game optimizing the cost of that loan to where you think that's going to be.
AI assessment note: “For me personally, I would rather not give up the warrants”
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D 5 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.90
Q know my audience is thinking about. Um, Hey Chris, um, I want to give you a two million dollar loan against your B to B SAS revenues. Um, I can either give you a flat sort of 16% interest rate with a four year payback, or if you want to lower industry, I can give you a 10% interest rate, but with two percent warrants, which deal would you take?
A For me personally, I would rather not give up the warrants, you know, um, You know, uh, cause you know, I mean, the whole purpose of debt is that you, um, that you try to limit, you know, but it depends on how big the warrants are and what kind of a partner it is. I, I wouldn't say it's off the table at all. Um, you know, and if, you know, if you, if, if, if it's a reasonable sort of warrant conversion and, you know, and even you could game it where you could put incentives in place for you to, You know, usually this is a bridge to a private, ideally a private equity round, not another venture round, right? But a private equity round. And, you know, you should be thinking about your sort of how your business is going to mature over the next couple of years, what that ideal, you know, sort of place is going to be. And you could, you know, sort of Sort of game optimizing the cost of that loan to where you think that's going to be.
AI assessment note: “For me personally, I would rather not give up the warrants”
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D 3 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.55
Q Well, look, it's a big space. We're happy, and we want to chat about all the options. So I believe you're working with Bridge Bank and recurring capital partners, and they've been great partners Help other entrepreneurs understand what are some of the things that a founder should negotiate for when they're raising debt from anyone? Us, recurring capital partners, Bridge Bank.
A Yeah. So when you're super capital efficient and you don't have a VC sponsor, right, you know, it's tricky because, you know, the traditional, uh, Banks like Bridge Bank, or Silicon Valley Bank, or Signature, some of the other ones that you, a lot of folks have heard of, their, you know, their, their, uh, go to market plan is, you know, get a company just, just raised a bunch of money from a VC, give them a revolver, and they know that VC is going to back up that, um, that debt play. Um, and they're not going to ask for personal guarantees, right? So we're talking about that without any personal guarantees, which is, you know, important, you know, for most entrepreneurs.
AI assessment note: “without any personal guarantees, which is, you know, important”
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D 3 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.55
Q Well, look, it's a big space. We're happy, and we want to chat about all the options. So I believe you're working with Bridge Bank and recurring capital partners, and they've been great partners Help other entrepreneurs understand what are some of the things that a founder should negotiate for when they're raising debt from anyone? Us, recurring capital partners, Bridge Bank.
A Yeah. So when you're super capital efficient and you don't have a VC sponsor, right, you know, it's tricky because, you know, the traditional, uh, Banks like Bridge Bank, or Silicon Valley Bank, or Signature, some of the other ones that you, a lot of folks have heard of, their, you know, their, their, uh, go to market plan is, you know, get a company just, just raised a bunch of money from a VC, give them a revolver, and they know that VC is going to back up that, um, that debt play. Um, and they're not going to ask for personal guarantees, right? So we're talking about that without any personal guarantees, which is, you know, important, you know, for most entrepreneurs.
AI assessment note: “So we're talking about that without any personal guarantees”
