We've been talking about various ways of financing your Quantum Leap through incurring debt.
Of the three ways to grow your business - allocation of revenues, debt and equity financing - the chances are overwhelming you won't be able to accrue the revenues you'll need to finance a Quantum Leap.Debt financing is my least favorite, because you're committed to a debt obligation, plus interest, well into an uncertain future. A rise in interest rates or a downturn in business could screw up your ability to service your debt. Also, if the deal blows up and you lose your ass, your frantic lender will want his money back -even out of your flesh.
I have always taken the position that equity financing is more advantageous, in that fresh Other People's Money is infused into your company in exchange for equity ownership. This puts those Other People in the same boat you are vis-a-vis the company's survival and profitability. They buy into a share of your dream knowing they could lose their investment. Unfortunately, depending on how you structure your equity offering, it also gives them a say in how you go about pursuing your dream. Therefore, before you dilute yourself below 50%, make sure you're well on your way toward your Quantum Leap.
Don't misunderstand! You will have to pay some interest on almost all forms of equity infusion, and it is often a higher rate.
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I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my broken soul.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of your skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King
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HAYALİM
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"Bir hayalim var" (I have a dream) ... " Her ne kadar canı pahasına da olsa..."
Martın Luther Kıng
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What was going on?
Then, I watched as my world once again reformed and took on a new shape…
And he got down on one knee.
I was shaking, the air seeming to glimmer around me, a hazy wonderland where all your dreams actually came true, appearing right in front of my eyes.
“You’re not supposed to cry yet,” he teased, tracking the tears falling
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I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and you!
Pochita: "Denji... my dream was to have someone hug me. Sounds easy, right? Except I'm too strong, so it was actually really hard. But you made my dream come true. Denji... I want you to grant the Control Devil's dream too. The Control Devil... She always wanted to form equal relationships with others. She could only form relationships through the power of fear. So she always longed for something like a family. That's the kind of world she wanted to create, even if she went about it the wrong way. So... You create that world for her, okay?"
Denji: "Pochita... How do I..?"
Pochita: "Give her lots of hugs."
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Because it begins to seem to me at such times that I am incapable of beginning a life in real life, because it has seemed to me that I have lost all touch, all instinct for the actual, the real; because at last I have cursed myself; because after my fantastic nights I have moments of returning sobriety, which are awful! Meanwhile, you hear the whirl and roar of the crowd in the vortex of life around you; you hear, you see, men living in reality; you see that life for them is not forbidden, that their life does not float away like a dream, like a vision; that their life is being eternally renewed, eternally youthful, and not one hour of it is the same as another; while fancy is so spiritless, monotonous to vulgarity and easily scared, the slave of shadows, of the idea, the slave of the first cloud that shrouds the sun... One feels that this inexhaustible fancy is weary at last and worn out with continual exercise, because one is growing into manhood, outgrowing one's old ideals: they are being shattered into fragments, into dust; if there is no other life one must build one up from the fragments. And meanwhile the soul longs and craves for something else! And in vain the dreamer rakes over his old dreams, as though seeking a spark among the embers, to fan them into flame, to warm his chilled heart by the rekindled fire, and to rouse up in it again all that was so sweet, that touched his heart, that set his blood boiling, drew tears from his eyes, and so luxuriously deceived him!
Most business owners, particularly those who have founded and grown their company from scratch, are very protective about their firm. It's their baby, and even though they're entertaining the idea of selling it, they want that baby in good hands. They want their employees protected and secure. They want their customers taken care
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