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What’s Your Available Cash? An important, overlooked Financial Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

December 12, 2022September 21, 2023 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Available Cash: What's Your Available Cash? An important, overlooked FINANCIAL KPI (Key Performance Indicator) Available Cash? I recently got asked by a CFO a question, I thought worth sharing. "How much cash should we maintain on our balance sheet in our business’? I believe its good for companies to have…

Owner Exit Strategies

January 24, 2022April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Owners of businesses typically dream of going public or performing an IPO, even though less than 1% of businesses ever achieve this. However, for the remaining 99% of businesses out there, there are multiple viable options that owners should consider and evaluate when determining their business exit strategy. Ideally, owners should…

Merchant Cash Advances (MCA) Deceiving Math

March 29, 2021September 3, 2021 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

A lender recently told me a story about how entrepreneurs often get deceived by the cost of MCA (Merchant Cash Advances) loans. As an example, one owner recently mentioned he was about to get a $121,000 loan that required the company to pay back $165,000 in 9 months and the company…

Case Study In Growth: Using revenue based financing (RBF) to drive greater growth and enterprise value

October 8, 2019August 31, 2021 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

A 20 year old software company was working to develop some exciting new products. Management had scoped out its future features and functions and shared their solution concepts with potential customers who showed strong interest. The challenge was it would cost the company $1 million beyond their free cash flow to complete…

Corporate Finance Advisory is what we do!

March 13, 2019July 12, 2022 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

We receive a lot of inquiries, but today one came through that I immediately replied to. First of all, I love it when women reach out to Lantern, and it warms my heart that it came from a high school student. Lantern Capital Advisors specializes in corporate finance advisory services…

Revenue Based Financing: Refinance Your Merchant Cash Advance Loans

February 25, 2019August 31, 2021 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

Over the years, we have had fast growing companies come to us looking for help both getting new capital and refinancing (out) merchant cash advance loans that they had taken out. In one instance, a company needed to make payroll by the end of the week and had no money in…

The NFL’s Long Term Financial Goal

July 1, 2018April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

In 2010 NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell set a goal of achieving $25 billion in total revenues by 2027. At the time the league was generating $8.5 billion in annual revenue so I thought that was a pretty audacious. It equated to $1 billion increase per year in revenues until 2027.…

Acquisition Strategies – Think Small to Go Big

June 27, 2018April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Acquisition Strategies – Think Small to Go Big On several occasions, I have met or worked with entrepreneurs that built valuable businesses by effectively executing several small acquisitions. These companies have been in industries such as staffing, insurance and financial services as well as electronic and light manufacturing. Several of…

Another Exit Planning Option: Sell To Management

March 27, 2018April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Internal Management Buyout: Another Exit Planning Option: Sell to Management The one exit planning strategy that most often gets overlooked is an internal management buyout but it’s an approach that has several advantages that owners should seriously consider. This post is a very short explanation of 1) how an internal…

Growing by Acquisition: A key factor that drives successful acquisitions

February 15, 2018April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Growing By Acquisiton: A Key Factor That Drives Successful Acquisitions. When targeting an acquisition it’s pretty easy to get lost in the numbers. After all, financial analysis is critical for acquisition financing, valuing the acquisition and seeing how the Company can add financial or enterprise value to the current business.…

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