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Sticky Leverage

April 28, 2009April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

The WSJ published an article titled “Sticky Leverage” stating that the leverage for companies is continuing to increase. Leverage is defined as a company's debt divided by its cash flow or EBITDA. The WSJ sticky leverage article discusses large companies and large buyout deals but the same is true for…

VCs want bail out money? Really?

April 22, 2009April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

The WSJ reported that VCs are lobbying the government to get access to SBA funds from which they are currently excluded. What the article didn't mention was that this exclusion only applies to companies that are majority owned by VCs. That is they own more than 50% of the ownership.…

Hey Where Did Everybody Go? What Happened To All The IPOs?

February 18, 2009April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Back in the late 1980’s and all of the 1990’s promising growth companies could raise $20-$30 million in equity capital and go public with well recognized names like Prudential Securities, Alex Brown, Salomon Smith Barney and many others. Since then the number of IPOs has dropped considerably particularly for companies…

VC Humor: Rocket Scientists or Lottery Winners?

December 10, 2008April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Professional investors often pass on investing in companies that turn out to be very successful but they rarely will admit it. Here's a link to a site that pokes fun at their own lack of infallibility. http://www.bvp.com/Portfolio/AntiPortfolio.aspx

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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