Byju's: The Teacher Who Got Schooled
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The Risk of Debt Financing a Startup
A lender is very conscious of the fact that they've given some money and that money needs to be recovered. So what I fundamentally believe is that person especially in startup world when somebody is making an investment into a startup as equity funding is basically it's a risk capital. It has been considered you know in their calculations that this money may not come back whereas a lender has a very very small portion of risk or they account for very very small portions of default. See debt relies on the fact that you have some cash flows which are predictable which can be used to service the debt a startup is anything but predictable startups are all chaos at least in the early stages.
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