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Mixing Equity and Debt: The Lesser-Known Key to Airbnb, Uber, and Sweetgreen’s Explosive Growth

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Stable, Predictable Business Model. The world of small business lending has changed dramatically over the last decade, but lenders are still set in some of their ways. Bankers like businesses that they can understand. Lenders provide significantly more as a business proves itself, b ut venture capital starts out high.