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Venture Debt Scouting Report: City National Bank

Venture Debt Scouting Report: City National Bank
Posted on Fri, 9 February 2018

City National Bank is a great group to work with. They’re led by Rod Werner, who’s the consummate Silicon Valley deal-maker.

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Venture Debt Scouting Report: Bridge Bank

Venture Debt Scouting Report: Bridge Bank
Posted on Fri, 9 February 2018

Kruze Consulting’s COO, Scott Orn’s Venture Debt scouting report on Bridge Bank and what you should know about Bridge Bank as a Venture Debt lender.

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Kruze Consulting’s Role in Placing Venture Debt

Kruze Consulting’s Role in Placing Venture Debt
Posted on Fri, 9 February 2018

All of our clients know to call us but there’s a lot of people out there or a lot of startups that don’t know that we do this on an ad hoc basis.

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Venture Debt Scouting Report: WTI

Venture Debt Scouting Report: WTI
Posted on Tue, 6 February 2018

Kruze Consulting’s COO, Scott Orn, talks about Western Technology Investment, their services and using them for venture debt scouting reports.

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Venture Debt Scouting Report: Triplepoint

Venture Debt Scouting Report: Triplepoint
Posted on Tue, 6 February 2018

Triplepoint’s a very large fund, a very aggressive lender in the venture debt marketplace.

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Venture Debt Scouting Report: SVB

Venture Debt Scouting Report: SVB
Posted on Tue, 6 February 2018

SVB is one of the largest players in the venture debt market. They’ve been servicing start-ups for many, many years.

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Tax Reporting ISO and NQSO

Tax Reporting ISO and NQSO
Posted on Tue, 6 February 2018

Vanessa Kruze, Kruze Consulting’s CEO, answers the yearly question of ‘how does a startup report ISO and non-qualified stock options for tax purposes?’.

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Startup Tax Return

Startup Tax Return
Posted on Tue, 6 February 2018

How much should be a startup tax return cost?

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Section 382 Triggers

Section 382 Triggers
Posted on Tue, 6 February 2018

Section 382 is a part of the IRS code that was developed about 20 or 30 years ago to limit corporations’ use of their net operating losses to offset profits.

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R&D Tax Credit Expense Categories

R&D Tax Credit Expense Categories
Posted on Tue, 6 February 2018

If you haven’t heard, R&D tax credits have really changed dramatically over the past couple of years.

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Minimum Cash Requirement in Venture Debt Deals

Minimum Cash Requirement in Venture Debt Deals
Posted on Tue, 6 February 2018

A minimum cash requirement is something that usually a bank will ask the company to do.

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Material Adverse Change as Event of Default in Venture Debt

Material Adverse Change as Event of Default in Venture Debt
Posted on Tue, 6 February 2018

Material adverse change clauses, or MAC, is the one term you do not want to have on your term sheet.

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Goodbye 2017, Welcome 2018!

Goodbye 2017, Welcome 2018!
Posted on Tue, 6 February 2018

I’m Vanessa Kruze and today I just wanted to go over with you guys a 2017 recap, as well as go over some things that are coming up for 2018.

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Funding MAC (Material Adverse Change) in Venture Debt

Funding MAC (Material Adverse Change) in Venture Debt
Posted on Tue, 6 February 2018

We talked about MACs as an event of default. You definitely want to avoid those. But almost equally dangerous is the funding MAC.

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Final Payments in Venture Debt

Final Payments in Venture Debt
Posted on Tue, 6 February 2018

The idea behind a final payment is that the lender will backload some of the interest.

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