Samir Kaji of First Republic joins Nick on a special Crisis Coverage installment to discuss Relief $ for Startups via CARES Act, EIDL, PPP; & How an Extended Downturn Affects Emerging VC Funds. In this episode, we cover:

• Startups...
  • The CARES Act became law on 3/27, but many are having trouble making sense of it and how it applies...
  • Let's start out w/ the two types of loans that are available to small businesses...
  • First off, can you explain the difference between the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (EIDL) and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)?
  • EIDL - No forgiveness potential and and requires personal guarantee?
  • PPP - Forgiveness potential and no personal guarantee?
  • Affiliation...  Dan Primack was writing about how the 500 employee rule and how much of Private Equity portfolio companies will be excluded b/c of how the language is written.  Can you explain the "affiliation issue?"
  • How can this be enforced/checked... so many obscure LLCs used for investment in companies... hard to verify.
  • April 3rd - Is this the date that PPP applications are available?
  • What advice do you have for startups right now, to be prepared and get to the front of the queue?
  • How will seed stage be impacted?
  • Some of the best companies (Uber, AirBnB) first took institutional capital after the 2008 crisis; is now the time to be aggressively investing?
• VCs...
  • How are the existing funds w/ committed capital adjusting?
  • Will we see a lot of attrition / VC firms shutting down?
  • What are (Read more...)