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Find Your Ideal Job and Build Your Dream Business

Leading Blog

While there are a lot of targeted small business funds that don’t require full collateralization, obtaining funds from your financial institution will be challenging if your debt to equity ratio does not meet their criteria and you don’t have a secondary source of income they can secure against the loan.

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VC Stereotypes About Men and Women Aren’t Supported by Performance Data

Harvard Business Review

” “ He owns a big share of the company, and of course he wants to increase the production volume to raise the profitability and expand.” Debt-to-equity ratio (leverage): the degree to which an entrepreneur exposes his or her business to risks. ” “ He is looking for a company to buy.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

A hundred years ago, the focus on squeezing every drop of return out of equity capital made great sense. As the industrial revolution progressed, society was enjoying enormous benefits from mass production, which brought former luxuries within middle class reach. The revolution ran on equity capital, which was in short supply. (GM

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