Lighter Capital

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Short-term financing (12 months or less), which includes merchant cash advances (MCA) and merchant financing, often attracts startup founders looking for lower capital costs and quick access to cash — but those benefits can fade quickly if the loan terms don’t line up with what the business needs. QUESTION 1: What am I using the loan for?

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Finance Start-ups Debt Financing B2B 59

Brian DeChesare

JULY 31, 2024

But the real question is this: If you accept an industrials private equity job, will you end up more like Andrew Carnegie or Henry Phipps, or will your career trajectory resemble a distressed tire manufacturing company that later declared bankruptcy? Assume a Purchase Enterprise Value of $2.6 trailing EBITDA multiple and a 5.2x

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Equity Private Equity Firm EBITDA Start-ups 66

Class VI Partner

MAY 25, 2022

private equity deals surpassed $1 trillion for the first time ever and marked a whopping 83% dollar-value growth rate over 2020. Additionally, deal quantity was up 61%. Of course, the sellers who would have seen the most significant take-home effect would have been those selling for the highest enterprise values.

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