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How to Apply for an Equipment Lease: Step-by-Step Guide

How to Apply for an Equipment Lease: Step-by-Step Guide

For startup founders and small business owners, leasing equipment can be a compelling option, particularly in capital-intensive industries where the necessary equipment carries a steep price tag. Case...
What Is Underwriting? Everything You Need to Know

What Is Underwriting? Everything You Need to Know

When you want to lease, you will need to go through several steps to acquire new equipment, including equipment selection, obtaining a manufacturer quote, finalizing the lease agreement, and submittin...
What Types of Equipment Leases Are There?

What Types of Equipment Leases Are There?

Equipment financing can be an excellent option for business owners who need expensive equipment to improve or expand their operations. For scientists, this means getting specialized or updated equipme...
Equipment Lease Agreements: Common Rates, Terms, & Conditions

Equipment Lease Agreements: Common Rates, Terms, & Conditions

Science and technology feed off one another. As scientific techniques are tweaked and improved, new technology is introduced to reflect those advances, resulting in a variety of new equipment types. W...
Equipment Leasing Glossary

Equipment Leasing Glossary

Leasing can often seem like a different language. When working with a leasing company, equipment distributor, or manufacturer, you may encounter terminology (terms, concepts, acronyms, and phrases tha...
Leasing vs. Buying Equipment: The Benefits of Equipment Leases

Leasing vs. Buying Equipment: The Benefits of Equipment Leases

Deciding whether to lease or buy equipment is a topic of ongoing debate, especially for companies in capital-intensive industries. CEOs, CFOs, managers, and anyone deciding to procure new machinery wi...
Eight Myths About Leasing

Eight Myths About Leasing

According to the Equipment Leasing and Financing Association (ELFA), almost 8 out of 10 companies in the United States rely on some form of financing to acquire equipment, including equipment loans, l...
What Is a Sale-Leaseback Transaction & How Does It Work?

What Is a Sale-Leaseback Transaction & How Does It Work?

What Is a Sale-Leaseback? A sale-leaseback (SLB), also known as a sale-leaseback transaction, sale-and-leaseback, or leaseback, is well-known for being an effective financial tool used in commercial r...
Lease Accounting in the Biotech Industry

Lease Accounting in the Biotech Industry

Equipment leasing isn’t widely practiced in biotechnology and the life sciences. In fact, this type of financing has historically been overlooked by scientists and entrepreneurs in the sector. In the ...
A Founder's Guide to Extending Cash Runway

A Founder's Guide to Extending Cash Runway

Extending Your Cash Runway in a Downturn Is Essential Cash runway is the number of months you have until your company runs out of cash. More technically, it refers to the amount of time a company has ...