You are forgetting one thing....they can only collect from the entity. Short term lenders get screwed more often than most realize. Let me show you this(as one example):
That was written by said short term lenders. Amazing language...eh? Look what they did in order to squeeze out as much money as they could given that they were losing their ass on this entity:
That is correct...they loaned enough money to said entity...wrote the reports...and became current so they could at least get some of their money back.
The convertible notes equated to $928,979. They may have netted $70,000 at best...after putting down roughly $34,000. I doubt that ..though. To be favorable...they collectively lost over $850,000 rough... :)