The FASTEST Capital to Fund Your Business
Podcast: Chew on This - Digestable DTC ContentPublished On: Thu Oct 03 2024
Description: 💸Clearco - Clearco provides ecommerce businesses with working capital to fund invoices and receipts. Increase your ecommerce business revenue with predictable, controllable, and scalable funding. 🔗 https://clear.co/ In this episode of Chew on This, CEO of Clearco Andrew Curtis and Michael Zung from Bloomist join Ash to discuss revenue-based finance, specifically invoice funding, as a growth tool for DTC e-commerce businesses. They explore how invoice funding can help DTC brands overcome cash flow challenges and accelerate growth. They also analyze the pros and cons of invoice funding, including its unique features compared to other funding options, and provide practical advice on how to evaluate different financing options. 💸 Invoice funding is a fast and flexible option for DTC businesses to fund inventory purchases, marketing spend, and logistics. 📈 Clearco’s model allows for a fixed payback amount over a set period, enabling better planning and avoiding unpredictable daily remittance rates based on revenue. 💡 It’s crucial to understand the cost of capital and the potential return on investment when considering invoice funding, and Clearco offers tools and support to help businesses model their finances. 🤝 Invoice funding can coexist with traditional bank lines of credit, creating a diverse financing strategy for businesses at different stages of growth. 🎯 Clearco prioritizes transparency and provides specific details about its fee structure, empowering businesses to make informed decisions about the right financing tools for their needs. 0:00 - Intro 0:47 - Clearco for invoice funding 4:11 - Challenges of financing options for DTC brands 5:05 - Importance of profitability and cash flow 6:07 - Clearco's growth from 2019 to 2020 10:11 - Quick funding process 12:00 - The value of Clearco's funding 17:05 - Clearco's capital as fuel for growth and inventory turnover 19:40 - Benefits of improved terms with suppliers through funding 24:21 - Clearco's transparency in costs and repayment structure 26:35 - Loss rates and financing counterparties 28:02 - Capital for seasonal sales (BFCM) 29:21 - Inventory planning for holiday sales 31:34 - Leveraging invoice funding effectively 35:07 - Clearco's unique position as an invoice funding solution 39:01 - Various funding options for businesses 41:24 - Clearco's dynamic approach to funding based on invoice uploads 46:50 - Fees and costs associated with capital 49:09 - Final chews Follow us, subscribe to our newsletter, and to see our exclusive merch check out https://chewonthis.io/ Ron Shah - / obviceo Ash Melwani - / ashvinmelwani Chew On This - / chewonthisdtc
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