#+title: Section 8 | Lesson 44 - Debt/Bonds, Interest Rates/Yield Curves, Equity #+HTML_HEAD: * Links - [[./../mba-main.org][TOC | Business]] - [[https://www.udemy.com/course/an-entire-mba-in-1-courseaward-winning-business-school-prof/learn/lecture/4282976#overview][S08:L44 Debt/Bonds, Interest Rates/Yield Curves, Equity]] * Notes ** late stage VC & VD round - year 5-6 - best VC: Meritech - best VD: Silicon Valley Bank ** Finance & Accounting differences *** accounting - accrued revenue and expenses *** finance - cash revenue and expenses - cost of capital (cost of getting money) - cost of equity ** Debt - nominal interest rate = interest rate of a bank loan - real interest rate: rate that government loans banks - liquidity risk: how fast can one turn all his assets to cash - cost of debt = liquidity risk + inflation risk + defautl risk + maturity + real interet rate - risk free rate = real rate of interest + inflation premium ** yield curve