Chris Risey, Author at Financing Gazelles

Weekly What If: What If Owners Take Liquidity Now?

April 22, 2016March 6, 2018 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

What If Owners Took Liquidity Now? A profitable software company decided to sell but initial valuations were below their expected value and they wanted to be patient and wait for potentially higher offers. Management was confident that business would be more valuable with each passing month, so an interesting question…

Weekly What If: Testing The Capital Markets Before Accessing The Markets

March 4, 2016August 16, 2018 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

As the financial markets began to unravel late in summer of 2008, many financial institutions stopped funding new investments. This directly impacted all sorts of companies and their ability to get new financing. For us, a corporate financial consulting firm that raises capital for growing companies, this was a particularly…

Charlie Sheen On Corporate Financial Planning

March 2, 2011August 16, 2018 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Charlie Sheen On Corporate Financial Planning: What Charlie Sheen can tell YOU about your business - “Sheenisms” by Lantern Capital Advisors Like many of you, I ventured to the ‘octagon’ last night as I drifted in and out of semi-consciousness while I watched the thoroughly engaging Charlie Sheen interview on…

Assess You Company’s Debt Capacity

November 18, 2010February 19, 2017 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

If you are interested to refinance your company’s debt or get additional capital, theres is a fairly simple rule of thumb that can help you quickly gauge your financing alternatives and make sense of today’s lending environment. This white paper by Lantern Capital Advisors identifies the simple corporate finance rule…

Selling Your Company To Management

May 3, 2010February 19, 2017 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Business owners often overlook selling their company to management as a possible exit strategy. But for solid companies with good cash flows, selling your company to management may yield a higher financial value for the owner and a much brighter future for the business, management, and the seller. Our latest…

Partner Buyout: An Opportunistic Way To Build More Equity Value

April 2, 2010February 19, 2017 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Partner Buyout: An Opportunistic Way to Build More Equity Value. Management Buyout and Leveraged Buyouts financing processes can be orchestrated in the same way in order to help individuals buyout a partner or majority owner of a business. Partner buyouts can be financed on an all debt basis because the partner already has some equity in the…

Focus on Growing Cash Flows Not Just Revenue

March 24, 2010February 19, 2017 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Several entrepreneurs with fast growing businesses told me they have recently made cost reductions in response to slowing business and the economy. One business owner told me, he and his CEO cut $600,000 of annual expense from their operating budget in 45 minutes! The more interesting thing was they all…

Shaken Economy Creates Management Buyout Opportunities

December 22, 2009February 28, 2017 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Management Buyout Opportunities: In a shaky economy a logical strategy for management is to focus on just hanging on to the business you have. For proactive management teams and owners it can be a time to reconfigure the business or ownership in order to realize in greater benefits in the…

Creative But Little Known Source Of Debt Financing

November 28, 2009February 19, 2017 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

High Growth companies (Gazelles) looking for financing often don't realize they may be able to finance their company with various forms of creative debt structures. This however is rarely debt you would find at your local bank. These more exotic forms of debt are provided in the capital markets by…

The New Get Rich Scheme: No Money Down!

November 2, 2009February 19, 2017 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

I recently got a call from two people writing a book about buying companies and doing it with no money down. They wanted me to help people that read their book, do exactly that. After talking to them I looked around on the web and found several (paid) ads selling…

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