Category: Leasing & Financing
Learn More About Scientific Equipment & Common Laboratory Questions
03/01/2023
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...
08/30/2022
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...
08/30/2022
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...
08/26/2022
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...
08/02/2022
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...
07/22/2022
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...
07/21/2022
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...
07/07/2022
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...
07/06/2022
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 ...
07/02/2022
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 ...