Chris Risey, Author at Financing Gazelles

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,…

The (Pricing) Power of Competition

October 15, 2016April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

[caption id="attachment_380" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The Power Of Competition[/caption] We recently completed a $25 million management led buyout for one of our clients. Even after doing this for many years, I am always surprised by what I learn or what I am reminded of. In this case its, the power of…

Exit Strategies Selling Your Company To Management

October 12, 2016April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

[caption id="attachment_342" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Exit Strategies[/caption] For business owners, selling the company to management can be overlooked as a viable owner exit strategy. However, in many cases selling the company to management can be more personally and financially rewarding than selling to another company or private equity firm. The advantages of…

Facts On High Growth Companies: What is A High Growth Company?

September 20, 2016April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

What is a High Growth Company? When someone says 'high growth company' they immediately tend to think of classic venture capital focused businesses like technology companies, biotech and software. But reflecting on our experience, more than half of high growth clients came out of traditional, often boring old industries, like…

Message To Management: Don’t Wait!

June 30, 2016April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Last week I got a call from a CEO of small software company. His parent was in the process of selling his company. The process of selling the business was taking longer than expected and the price was below the range the seller really wanted. He called to ask me…

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