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Determining Value Early On is a Good Idea for Business Partners

June 7, 2017July 12, 2022 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, 2017March 6, 2018 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, 2017March 6, 2018 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, 2017March 6, 2018 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…

Failure Is Not An Option. Move Your Cheese.

January 20, 2017September 9, 2021 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYsFUFgOEmM[/embed] If you haven’t seen the ad by Chrysler featuring Enimem, well, we want to share it with you, provided that You Tube doesn’t take it down... What does your company know about luxury? The finest things in life. Especially when the questions are asked by someone that has never…

When Is The Right Time To Sell Your Business?

January 15, 2017March 6, 2018 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

One of my favorite shows is “The Office”, I’ll leave the humor out of this post, but the show only exists because the original creators took a chance at producing “something new”. Does anyone even care or know what they did before? What made Simon Cowell so famous in the…

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

January 14, 2017March 6, 2018 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, 2016March 6, 2018 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, 2016March 6, 2018 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, 2016March 6, 2018 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…

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