Chris Risey, Author at Financing Gazelles

Getting More Capital Out of Your Bank

August 25, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Getting More Capital Out of Your Bank Growing companies often struggle to get enough capital to grow the way they want. Its not uncommon for business owners to wine and dine their banker then ask for a credit increase and be denied. A way to change that dynamic is to…

Determining Value Early On is a Good Idea for Business Partners

June 7, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Partner Buyout: Determining Value Early On is a Good Idea for Business Partners I was recently asked if I could help a company develop a valuation methodology for their business so that if one partner wanted to buyout the other, they would already have an agreed up on formula valuing…

How Do You and Your Team Use Corporate Financial Planning?

May 27, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Corporate Financial Planning: How Do You and Your Team Use Corporate Financial Planning? Do you have a financial planning process that improves your business planning process? There are numerous ways to apply corporate financial planning to drive more growth and value in your business. If you want help or…

Financing Challenges: How We Helped a Client Buy His Division From The Owner

April 24, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Management Buyout Financing Challenges: How Lantern Capital Advisors helped a client buy his division from the owner. Situation: A divisional manager wanted to buy his division from the owner who was having financing challenges with the bank. How Lantern Capital Advisors helped execute the management buyout: Lantern helped the manager…

Growth and Liquidity Financing: How We Helped a Client Fund Faster Growth and Take Capital Out of Business

April 18, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Growth Capital and Liquidity Financing: How Lantern Capital Advisors helped a client fund faster growth and take capital out of the business. Situation: Owners of a growing software and services company were interested to explore financing alternatives to fund faster growth as well as take capital out of the business. How…

Weekly What If: What If We Consolidate On Our Own?

January 14, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

The Weekly What If...Chronicling companies that transformed their business by Exploring What if Today’s biggest boat retailer was organized around this What If. Today, Marine Max is America’ largest boating and yachting retailer with over 50 locations in 19 states. In 2004, I interviewed company, CEO and Chairman Bill McGill and was surprised…

Investment Banking Fees Vs. Consulting Fees

December 27, 2016April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Investment bankers typically raise capital using one of two formulas. These formulas are referred to as the Lehman Formula, or Double Lehman Formula, and are calculated via the incremental dollar value of the capital raise - typically a percentage descending from 5-10% for the first five million, and thereafter a 1-2%…

What If We Eliminate Late Fees?

December 15, 2016April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

The Weekly What If...Chronicling companies that transformed their business by Exploring What if Praised for its clever business model, it was really this What if that started its massive growth. Based on its market value and number of customers, there is a good chance you use, Netflix. I do. Their…

Weekly What If: What If We Change The Revenue Model

December 15, 2016April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

20 Year Old Software Company Unlocks Explosive Growth with this “What If” A small, well respected technology provider (name witheld) had logged years of constant technology innovation for its bank and retailer customers. As an example, this company was one of the first to enable instand credit and credit card…

10 Strategies To Raise Capital Effectively

November 10, 2016April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Attached is a link to a popular article Lantern Advisors posted with CFO.com. It is most relevant to entrepreneurs and CFOs of high growth companies that have already achieved some level of success and are considering a capital raise as part of an effort to substantially grow the value of their business (and equity.) For example,…

« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next »