High Growth Company Archives - Financing Gazelles

Minority Shareholder Buyout: Clean Up Your Cap Table to Create More Value

June 23, 2026 by Chris Risey

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[caption id="attachment_381" align="alignleft" width="300"] Clean Up Your Cap Table to Create More Value[/caption] An often-overlooked way to create value is increasing ownership in your company through minority shareholder buyouts, particularly in high-growth businesses. Growth companies frequently raise capital, and growth often takes longer than expected. Over time, some investors lose…

How Mammoth Holdings grew into its name

August 6, 2025March 16, 2026 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

“Working at the Car Wash” Mammoth Holdings was founded by Gary Dennis and Richard “Chip” Hackett in 2002. Over the first decade they grew steadily to reach eight express, self-serve car wash locations. But in 2013 the Company’s six Georgia locations began to perform poorly due to a combination of increased rainfall,…

Using Enterprise Value As A Planning Tool

March 28, 2025August 6, 2025 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Abstract: Enterprise value is an important concept every business owner should understand. This video takes it a step further and suggests how enterprise value can be used as an important metric for measuring a company’s growth and how it can be used as a key tool for strategic planning. Videos…

Working With High Growth Companies

April 22, 2024April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

A lot of the companies Lantern Capital Advisors works with could be labeled as high growth companies. We define a high growth company as a business that can grow at a rate of 20% or more and do that for multiple years in a row. Lantern likes working with companies…

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.…

Failure Is Not An Option. Move Your Cheese.

January 20, 2017April 24, 2024 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…

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…

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…

The Wonder of Bras: Tales From Hollywood Boulevard

March 9, 2016April 24, 2024 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

[caption id="attachment_397" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The Wonder of Bras[/caption] Recently we were asked to consider sitting on a panel for an executive conference of growing companies, and of course, we jumped at the chance. But, one of the “corporate sponsors” (i.e. an investment banking firm) quacked at the thought of it,…

Weekly What If: Spark People

May 26, 2013April 24, 2024 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

8 million people are improving their fitness thanks to this What If. We were just in a meeting this morning and thought that we really needed to share our favorite companies, not because people are looking to us as trend setters, but because the momentum of businesses doing really great…

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