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Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Mitch Jacobs, Founder And CEO, On Deck Capital (Part 6)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What do you think business owners should do, in general, to be more successful with finding the capital that they need? Mitch: I think the absolute, most pivotal thing that business owners need to do is to make it easier for lenders to understand the performance
Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Mitch Jacobs, Founder And CEO, On Deck Capital (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What business sectors do you usually see? Mitch: It’s all of the local services that you would see in any community or neighborhood. Restaurants, retail, local practitioners such as doctors, dentists, veterinarians, hospitality, hotel and lodging, plumbing, HVAC, repairpeople. Those are the major categories. Then there’s
Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Mitch Jacobs, Founder And CEO, On Deck Capital (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: All your contacts with businesses seeking financing and all the processes are through the software, right? There are no people-to-people meetings like angel groups have? Mitch: No. Although, I think increasingly there are businesses where there’s both a technology layer and a business services layer. And
Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Mitch Jacobs, Founder And CEO, On Deck Capital (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How long do they need to be in business? Mitch: We work with businesses that have typically been in businesses for several years. It’s not a program for startups. It’s a program for businesses that typically have $250,000 to $3 million in revenue and also businesses
Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Mitch Jacobs, Founder And CEO, On Deck Capital (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Mitch: In general, business owners don’t do a good job of helping a bank to very quickly and readily understand the excellent performance of their businesses. It’s very hard for a bank to assess the performance of a small business. Given the economics of small loans, it
Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Mitch Jacobs, Founder And CEO, On Deck Capital (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the ninth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Mitch Jacobs, founder and CEO of On Deck Capital, a small business online lending platform. Irina: Hi, Mitch. Let’s start with your background and how you arrived where you are today.
