Monday, September 24, 2018

Insights and Opinions: Top Five Venture Debt Pitfalls For Startups

For today's Insights and Opinions piece for the site, we have a contribution from Kaäre Wagner of Silicon Valley Bank, talking about the Top Five Venture Debt Pitfalls For Startups.

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I love lists. My personal catnip is reading through an arbitrary ranking of anecdotes, experiences and pop culture. Blame social media, my short attention span…whatever. Just feed me listicles and don't bother me with long narratives. For the past seven years, I've been working with startups at SVB and, consequently, have seen a few things. One of those “things” is startups seeking venture debt (my colleague wrote a fantastic overview on venture debt here if you need a primer), but doing so without understanding how much they want, why they want it, and how they'll use it. Below are my Top Five Venture Debt Pitfalls for Startups (continued).

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Read the Top Five Venture Debt Pitfalls For Startups.

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