Small Business Funding Gap While Servicing a Merchant Cash Advance
A small business owner with bad personal credit and an MCA consuming 25% of card revenue needs about $150k to build a new facility. Conventional financing is unavailable and margins are zero for a year. The post seeks advice rather than describing a repeatable tooling gap.
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