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10 Strategies To Raise Capital Effectively

November 10, 2008April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Below 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…

Traits of A Good CFO

November 5, 2008April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

A recent CFO.com article, Crisis Demands New CFO Skills, suggests CFOs with lots of capital raising and mergers and acquisitions experience are what companies need to deal with today's difficult financing environment. While its a challenging financing market, getting a new CFO with capital raising experience, may not solve your…

Capital Shortage? Hardly

November 4, 2008April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

In the midst of this credit freeze, I am routinely always asked, "Is there ANY one out there funding growing businesses?" My answer is, "of course!" Just like Warren Buffet is spreading his money around, the same can be said for SOME investors and specialty lenders and senior lenders. For…

The Best CFO I worked with was a controller

November 3, 2008April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

A recent CFO.com article* (see link below) stated that because of the credit crisis, there will be a new breed of CFO. This new breed will be one heavy with capital markets experience. I believe that predication will turn out to be as much of an overreaction as the credit…

Losing Your Company In A Bad Roll Up…Pink Sheet Company And Pink Slips

October 15, 2008April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Recently I was contacted by an entrepreneur that I had met years before (but never worked with). He found me through a friend. When I originally met him, he was trying to put together three small companies, one of which he owned, into one combined business and buyout the other…

What Is A Gazelle?

September 2, 2008April 24, 2024 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

WHAT IS A GAZELLE? The term 'gazelle' or 'gazelles' is by no means a 'business standard' term but its used quit a bit to describe high growth companies. Investopedia, for example, defines a gazelle company as one that grows at an annual rate of 20% or more. We named the corporate finance…

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