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Short-Term Business Loans: Can Fast Financing Help Your Startup Grow?

Lighter Capital

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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2022 Trends in Private Equity

Class VI Partner

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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