steve preston is back with us as is tanya yuki. the first question is from an entrepreneur who's ready to raise capital. >> what are the fundamental metrics, things we should have in place before we start going out and looking at alternative outside financing sources? >> good question. all right, tanya, let's start with you. >> so the biggest thing is making sure you have your finances in order. it sounds like you'll be looking through institutional money which means they're really going to understand three years from now how you're going to grow and have the projections clear as to why you're going to go out and corner the marketplace. particularly early on, it's less about really proving everything that you've done but more about ensuring that you have a vision and you have your numbers in order to prove how you can execute. >> anything else, steve? >> yes. add to that, stability is important, especially in the lending community. if you're going to get debt capital, they're going to look closely at can the cash flow support your

steve preston is back with us as is tania yuki. the first question is from an n entrepreneur who's ready to raise capital. >> what are the fund mental metrics, things we should have in place before we start going out and looking at alternative outside financing sources. >> good question. all right, tania, let's start with you. >> the biggest thing is making sure you have your finances in order. it sounds like you'll be looking through institutional money, which means they're going to want to understand three years from now how you're going to grow and have those projections really clear as to why you're going to go out and coroner tn market place. so it's more about having things done but more about ensuring your vision and having the numbers to execute. >> anything else, steve? >> i'd add to that stability is very important especially in the lending community. if you're going to get dead capital, they're going to look very closely at can it support the debts. your cash flow to the total debt. they're going to want to look at the a

and i appreciate having the department of defense general counsel steve preston with me this morning.was one of our negotiators throughout this process and signed on behalf of the united states the memorandum of understanding between the governments of cutter and the united states. also here representing the joint chiefs of staff sitting behind me is that brigadier general pat white who is a director of the joint staff pakistan afghanistan coordination. he helped coordinate the recovery on behalf of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the vice chair of the joint chiefs who the chairman has noted will join us later this morning in the classified close portions. they played critical roles in the meetings of the national city council leading up to the surgeon's release and supported the decision to move forward with this prisoner exchange. in my statement today i will address the issues of the chairman, mr. smith the issues they raised when the chairman asks me to testify and explain why it was so urgent to pursue the release and why we decided to move forward. i want to make a

steve preston who as i noted earlier signed that memorandum of understanding on the half of the unitedgovernment. and was included in those negotiations. included in this m.o.u. were specific risk mitigation measures and commitments with the government of qatar, like our restrictions, monitoring, information sharing and limitations on activities as well as other significant measures which we will detailed in the closed portion of this hearing. they were described, as you know, mr. chairman, in the classified documentation and notification letter i sent to this committee last week. that memorandum of understanding has been sent to the congress, to the leadership, to the committees and every member of congress has an opportunity to review that memorandum of understanding in a close second. u.s. officials received a warning -- we received a warning from the qatari intermediaries that as we proceeded, time was not on our side and we will go into more detail in a classified hearing on those warnings. this indicated that the risk to sergeant bergdahl's safety were growing. we move forward wi

. >> listen, some of my best friend work at wmmr, preston and steve, love them to death, i just wantedo know because you were like oh man, chris love ti, he is so speechless. >> i got news for you, at 11:00 this morning pierre robert and i will be rocking on the way home. >> all right buddy get me out of here. >> we're loving it. >> still ahead, cirque du soleil comes to good day. and it is spectacular sneak peak of their new show next. ♪ the world famous fries you love, plus a shake of three new flavors you add. introducing mcdonald's shakin' flavor fries. and right now you can get a free medium sized shakin' flavor fries at mcdonald's when you purchase any large sandwich thursday august 7th through august 9th. so you better get shakin'. how big is acme's anniboy: it's huge! it's acme's anniversary sale. this week get hot or lean pockets, $0.99 each. pepsi 2 liters just $0.79. and frito lay party size chips, $2.99 each. don't miss our biggest sale ever! boy: hey mom! look what i found. acme. this sale is huge! it gives you options based on your budget -- it's a piece of cake. i was to

. >> by the way, quick shut out to our friends preston and steve today, because today is national radiove loved to have him with us. >> they're busy. imagine this? >> bus. >> i i know. >> national -- >> lots of stuff, parties, whatnot. >> kissing babies, cutting ribbons. >> smelling glue. >> good day to you, it is august the 20th, to 14. let's do another hour. >> live in william port, great thing, it is real a world series, when the phillies won in 2008. didn't meet a team from japan, meet a team from tampa. teams from around the world, sue, the first pitch, if it happens, is supposed to be an under 12 hours, but look at the clouds, all around here, williamsport. while everybody tunes in to see the weather in philly they want to know the weather three hours in the mountains. >> we have the forecast for you, as well, the forecast for williamsport and here in old city or the suburbs, your weather authority outlook. let's find out where quincy is. >> i'm trying to be an nba pro. i'm here with gregg, chuckle is, going to teach me how to be an nba protege. i'm going to be good at something,

. >> let's bring in preston and steve to go through some of them. i don't know if you heard this gimmick that a woman made 300 sandwiches, to try to get her boyfriend to propose to her. >> maybe if she got out of the kitchen and spent sometime with the boyfriend he would propose quicker. i mean 300 sandwiches, did she make 300 for him. >> yes what are they trying to do. >> do you want to marry a guy you have to tool around in a flatbed, i don't know about that. you know what superstition my wife used. she looked at me and said you will never do it. you will never do it, are you. >> that is how it works for that. >> and then did you. >> yeah. >> like right on the spot. >> i had ring ready to go, i almost threw it at all. >> now we're speaking food, engagement chicken, a dish in glamour magazine that promises the boy will soon pop the question, does that compel to you do that. >> well, i proposed to my wife a slipped a chicken on her finger. i think all of these are dumb. i think preston, just got the way most of the time and my wife did the same thin

. >> we started down, with preston and steve down wildwood and were you there and new we're evening the summer with you as well. >> it is great, summer went by so fast, it is incredible. today we will have a beautiful day. this is a awesome. the flyers, they are coming up, what can we predict. >> welshing we have a good team, good young goalie, good score, young players and it is exciting. ron hextall is doing a great job. we have paul home green as the president of the team and everything in place and we will have a i great year this year. >> let's have some fun. i know you love the ladies, bernie, ladies are doing zoomba, we have the mayor of wildwood. mayor ernie how are you doing. >> good, how are you doing. >> a lot of stuff in wildwood. it is always going on, this is capitol of fun, we had a tremendous season this year. weather has been perfect. you can mountain get a better day than today. we want to invite everybody down, enjoy what we have, our beaches are biggest in the world. we have always said we are so popular even the san comes to wildwood. >> it is all good. >> we apprec

steve. >> kate, thank you very much. >>> coming up at 8:30, richard preston, a best seller about the spreadwill share his personal experience and more in just a bit. . >>> coming up, research and development to create shareholder value, especially with dow chemical and dupont. which has the edge when it comes to efficiency and which stock is a better performer because of it. as we head to break, check out the "squawk box" market indicator. . >>> a mini series kicking off right here on "squawk box" this morning him dom chu looking at r&d spending and how it compares to shareholder value. we kick things off in the capital business with dupont and dow. tom. >> so steve, guy, here's what it comes down to, research and development, many consider at this time life blood of the companies future and continued success. spending on innovation is key. with everything, some companies do better with r&d than others. we look ltd. at hoy company sales increased year over year and related that back to how much more they spend e spent on r&d. it comes up with a research kwoesht or rq rating that these compa