Podcasts about able lending

In today’s episode, I sit down and chat with my friend and former client, Stu Smith. A fantastic designer and creative entrepreneur, working at Trello and based out of Austin, Texas with his wife (YellowBess), kids, and their dogs. During our interview we talk about a range of different topics from Stu’s college experience, us working together while he was at Able Lending and now his side hustles he’s been up to with his wife. Sit back and enjoy my chat with Stu. Nuggets of Wisdom: 1. You Don't Have to Go to Design School to Become a Designer. One common misconception is that if you go to college and want to become a designer (or go into any other creative profession) you have to get your degree in design. This is completely false. If there were a possibility to go back and redo college, I would have changed my path and gone for marketing or business (like Stu) instead. 2. Take Risks in Your Career. Especially if you're early in your career, take a risk. Take that job across the country or even in another country. Go out on the limb and start your own side hustle. You don't want to sit there, 10 years later full of regrets. 3. Sometimes You Have to Know When to Walk Away. Just like how Stu made the realization that he should close the doors on Sputnik, sometimes you have to know when its time to walk away and move on to the "next thing." We all have or will have those moments in careers and lives. I had that moment with my last job where I decided that I was going to leave and strike out on my own, but before I could make that move, it was made for me. Make that leap on your own terms, not someone else's. 4. Small Opportunities Can Lead to Bigger Ones Down the Road. You never know when a smaller opportunity may lead to a major one. Just like with Stu's work for the apartment complex, it started off with flyers and led to a $30,000 project. When you're starting out, take on those smaller projects and treat them like they're big dollar projects and clients. Show Notes Follow the Design Break podcast: Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Follow Host Rocky Roark: Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Follow Stu Smith: Website | Instagram | Twitter | Passenger Labs Special Thanks to the Design Break Editor: Loreanne Varon Podcast Music by: Royalty Free Rock via Pond5

Elyse Munselle grew up in Richardson, TX, but has lived in the great city of Austin for eight years. After graduating from Texas A&M  University with a BA in Finance, she moved to Austin to work as a financial fraud analyst. She has since moved into commercial lending and currently works as the Director of Underwriting at a start-up, Able Lending. She has been involved with Polished Austin since its inception and is honored to be serving as director alongside Jen. She loves being an advocate for women in business and encouraging women in their career and faith. In her free time, Elyse volunteers with 1 Dog 1 Hour and spends time exploring the ever-expanding list of new Austin restaurants with dog-friendly patios with her chocolate lab, Livy. Elyse loves traveling, listening to live music, loving rescue animals, drinking red wine, playing with her nieces and nephews, and being outside in the Texas heat, preferably by a lake with friends.

On this bonus "library" episode, you'll hear what Evan Baehr -- founder of Able Lending, author of Get Backed and professor of Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin -- is reading, writing and thinking about creating next.

Business owners that know their credit score are 41% more likely to be approved for a business loan. In this episode we talk with Gerri Detweiler the Head of Market Education at Nav where she shares insights on how business owners can establish and build their business credit. You can get your business credit score from www.nav.com for free.   Show Notes: 00:28 Introducing Gerri Detweiler 03:08 Only 72% of small business owners know their business credit scores 03:58 Nobody needs your permission to get your business credit 04:43 The traditional vs nontraditional source for acquiring capital 05:50 Case Study: How David Edmonson’s got capital for his sauerkraut business 06:59 Business credit cards vs personal credit cards 08:09 Where to start: The easiest and first type of business credit to establish 10:23 What you should expect once you have established business credit 12:10 How the your business and credit age factors into your access to capital 14:13 Why your business category determines if you are high risk vs low risk 16:02 How much capital a business owners should expect to get 17:10 Financing based on cash flow or sales - very expensive 18:02 Financing from PayPal, Square and other merchants 18:34 Access to capital based off of cash flow 19:10 Crowdfunding options like Kiva, Able Lending and Kickstarter 20:44 Do these 5 things to prepare for financing before you need it 21:36 Get your business credit score at Nav.com 23:00 Why business credit is used with government contractors and large vendor relationships like Wal-Mart and Target 26:13 Say thanks and ask Gerri question at https://twitter.com/gerridetweiler 26:50 The Ultimate Guide to Financing Your Business in 2017 free ebook at www.nav.com/ebook   Resources: www.nav.com Gerri’s books on Amazon The Ultimate Guide to Financing Your Business in 2017 https://twitter.com/gerridetweiler   Special shout out to Joel Jensen at Nav for connecting us together.

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There are not many companies in online lending that are doing something truly unique but I think we can put Able Lending into this category. While they offer small business term loans they have a unique twist that can lower the cost of lending for the borrower. They invite their borrowers to raise a portion of […] The post Podcast 82: Will Davis of Able Lending appeared first on Lend Academy.

There are not many companies in online lending that are doing something truly unique but I think we can put Able Lending into this category. While they offer small business term loans they have a unique twist that can lower the cost of lending for the borrower. They invite their borrowers to raise a portion of […] The post Podcast 82: Will Davis of Able Lending appeared first on Lend Academy.

Building better business relationships is a hot topic. You can spend lots of time reading blog posts and listening to podcast episodes about it. But rather than spend all that time trying to find good advice and perspectives, you’d be better off listening to somebody who does it well. One of the people that come to my mind right away is Evan Baehr. In this conversation I ask Evan some pretty straightforward questions about why he sees relationships as one of the best assets he has in business and how he goes about establishing, nurturing, and extending those relationships in ways that not only benefit him and his company but also the person on the other end. In the end, relationships may be the only place where I can truly meet a need. Every business leader is talking about the importance of meeting client or customer needs. No doubt, it’s an important concept to get your head around. But something that’s not said often enough is that the needs your business meets affect real people. The better your relationship with the real people behind the needs, the better your ability to meet those needs in a meaningful way. Evan Baehr makes that point in this episode of Real Relationships by saying, “In the end, relationships may be the only place where I can truly meet a need.” Find out more about what he means by that statement, on this episode. The benefit of relationships when it comes to finding the right new team member. Most companies hit the point where key team members need to be added to the team to fill critical roles within the organization. The typical way to go about finding those people is pretty artificial - scouring LinkedIn for recommendations, receiving resumes, conducting interviews - and while all of those are acceptable parts of the process none of them make the most of the business relationships you have already established. On this episode, Evan Baehr describes how his search and hiring process has benefitted from tapping into the great relationships he has established. This is a key insight you’re not likely to hear anyplace else. Forget about your normal corporate thank you gifts. Stand out by being thoughtful. The idea of giving a gift or card to a customer is nothing new. It’s been happening for years. But doing it in a way that makes you stand out, that shows you care - that’s an art form that few companies seem to have perfected. If you want to make a meaningful impact on your business clients to build a stronger relationship you need to forget about the coffee mug with your company logo on it. Think intimate. Think thoughtful. On this episode, Evan Baehr gives a couple of great examples of things he’s done to make an impact on customers through thoughtful thank you gifts. You can take his examples as fuel for the kind of thought and genuine care you need to put into the consideration of thank you gifts. If you’re a founder looking to raise money as your first priority, you’ve got it all wrong. When I asked Evan Baehr for his best piece of relational advice for those who are starting a company he pointed out that most founders are in the room because they are looking for people to fund their project. Though he sees that as important he also thinks it’s getting the cart before the horse. If you want to be successful at funding your startup you first need to be raising friends, not money. Listen in as Evan describes what it means to put relationships first, on this episode of Real Relationships. Outline of this great episode [0:30] My introduction of Evan Baehr, co-founder of Able Lending. [1:58] What was it about the Able Lending idea that caught Evan’s attention? [4:21] Why relationships are such a critical part of Evan’s business. [8:55] How Evan learned to build quality relationships. [15:00] The power of thoughtful, personal thank-you gifts. [17:16] What’s the most obvious but non-covered part of building relationships? [19:40] Evan’s habits for building relationships with clients and customers. [23:44] One connection that made a huge impact on Evan’s life. [25:02] The one thing Evan asks of you as a listener. [25:20] Evan’s one piece of advice for you: get vulnerable to raise friends first. Resources & Links mentioned in this episode Able Lending Evan on LinkedIn Evan(AT)EvanBaehr.com

Evan Baehr is the cofounder of Able, an online lender to small businesses. It launched June 2014 with the Wall Street Journal's Weekend Interview and on TechCrunch. His passion at Able is to serve the Fortune 5 Million – the 5.8 million small businesses that represent the backbone of the American economy. His previous startup was Outbox, a consumer internet company aiming to takeover the US Postal Service and backed by venture capitalists Peter Thiel and Mike Maples, on Fox News, CNN, TechCrunch, FastCompany, Wall Street Journal, INC, the New York Times, and on Jay Leno. He is coauthor of Get Backed: Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck, and Launch the Venture of Your Dreams from Harvard Business Press (2015), which has hit #1 in Amazon's business new releases. Evan has worked on the Facebook platform under Sheryl Sandberg, helping shape a vision to make life better by making it social, and for Peter Thiel building a political data company. He's an honors graduate of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, Yale Divinity School, and Harvard Business School. He has worked for the American Enterprise Institute's Charles Murray, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, served as a legislative aid on the House Appropriations Committee under Rep. Frank Wolf, was Chief of Staff on the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, under which he wrote the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act, and was the failed candidate for Princeton's City Council, despite receiving more votes than George W. Bush. He has served on the board of the Manhattan Institute's Adam Smith Society, the New Canaan Society, the Rivendell Institute, and Harvard Business School's FIELD Program, and is a mentor with First Round Capital's Dorm Room Fund. He cofounded the Hoover Institute's Rising Fellows Program, Harvard Business School's Ideas@Work, Princetonians in the Nation's Service, and the Yale Forum on Faith and Politics. He is the recipient of the Lily Endowment Thesis Prize, the Blackstone Legal Fellowship, and Princeton's James Madison Fellowship. He lives in Austin, TX, with his wife, Kristina Scurry Baehr, a patent litigator, and children Cooper and Madeleine. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/atribecalledyes)

Welcome to the Wealthy Wellthy Life with Krisstina Wise. In today’s installment, Krisstina chats with Evan Baehr, co-founder of Able Lending, a low-cost online lending company that believes access to capital at fair rates is a fundamental right. Evan went to Princeton, Yale, and Harvard Business School; and has worked on Facebook with Sheryl Sandberg and Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal. Evan’s previous startup was Outbox, and he is the co-author of Get Backed: Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck, and Launch the Venture of Your Dreams. He lives in Austin, TX, with his wife Kristina and two children Cooper and Madeline. Tune in to hear how Able Lending is helping carve the way for small businesses and entrepreneurs. For full show notes and to download a FREE copy of the transcript for this episode, visit: http://wealthywellthy.life/7

Evan Baehr, our most recent guest, wrote the #1 selling "Bible for Entrepreneurs Rasing Money", titled Get Backed, which shows you how to craft your story, build the perfect pitch deck and launch the venture of your dreams. Barbara Corcoran (ABC's Shark Tank) stated, “Anyone who comes to pitch on Shark Tank should read this book first!”  You can imagine Evan might know something about funding and financing. In fact he's truly an expert in this space. He's a graduate of Yale,Princeton and Harvard Business School. He's spoken to thousands of people on entrepreneurship, raising capital, and relationships. And, more importantly, he's raised over $50MM from venture capital firms, family offices, foundations and hedge funds. Today, he serves as President of Able Lending, the revolutionary funder of small business. This list is extremely impressive and it's also the reason he's been able to work with amazing people, including Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal, and Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook AngelList. Join us, as he walks through some amazing strategies for getting funding for your business venture, no matter the stage of business. To learn more about Able Lending,  visit. http://ablelending.com. And to learn more about Evan Baehr, visit http://evanbaehr.com.    

Our Beginner's Guide to Startups continues with Evan Baehr joining us in this fourth and final episode of the series to talk about how to get your idea funded. Evan lays down the essentials that you need to think about when you are preparing to ask someone for money. He provides some tools and tips that can help you find the right investor(s) for you and your team, and how to get to that crucial point - meeting with investors. Evan also talks about why he thinks that business plans are dying out and how pitch deck supplants it, with us diving deeper into some of the pitch deck building blocks. Also, he stresses the importance of story telling when the time comes for you to pitch. Evan Baehr is a cofounder at Able Lending and coauthor of a book that you should read when preparing to pitch: Get Backed: Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck, and Launch the Venture of Your Dreams. This episode is sponsored by FEE.org/seminars and discoverpraxis.com/apply

PitchIt @ LendIt featured eight pitches from exciting startups and a panel of five judges who are respected angel investors and venture capitalists. The eight startup finalists include: Crediyo, LoanHero, Able Lending, Sharestates, Ascend Consumer Finance, REAMERGE, CashForce, and Kickfurther.