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Owner Liquidity White Paper

March 16, 2026March 16, 2026 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Many business owners face a growing dilemma: how to access the value they have built in their company without giving up control or selling outright. This white paper explores owner liquidity's a powerful strategy to de-risk, diversify, and achieve key financial goals while continuing to lead the company through its…

The Value of Corporate Finance

March 24, 2025August 6, 2025 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Many accomplished entrepreneurs know little about corporate finance beyond dealing with their bank. This video shares some data that illustrates the value of better understanding corporate finance and identifies different ways corporate finance can be used to help entrepreneurs realize more value from their business. Videos highlighted here are from…

Are Dividend Recaps A Smart Move For Entrepreneurs?

October 21, 2024August 6, 2025 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

In this white paper by Chris Risey, we explore if dividend recaps are a smart move for entrepreneurs. It’s easy to see why private equity funds might do a dividend recap. But, would a dividend recap be a smart move for entrepreneurs too - even those with no intention of selling? On…

Owners Beware…Selling a business often leads to “Profound Regret”! Consider an internal buyout!

August 20, 2024March 24, 2025 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

I was recently told a statistic that I thought was shocking. A survey in 2018 found that 76% of business owners regret selling their business a year after the sale. Surprised by this statistic, I went in search of the source of this stat, which turned out to be from the Exit Planning…

Revenue Based Financing Case Study

May 6, 2024May 6, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Revenue based financing is a debt product that is essentially a 4-5 year term loan with a 2X payback to the investors. The product payment terms for revenue based financing are not fixed. The payment terms are based on the monthly revenues of the borrower and are variable according to…

Why banks ask for personal guarantees when a business needs a loan

April 30, 2024April 30, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

If you've ever gone to the bank asking for more capital and been turned down, you know why it is. Banks are typically not interested to heap unlimited amounts of capital on any company that comes to its doorstep, let alone a self-employed entrepreneur. The companies that banks love to…

Three Key Tools of Corporate Financial Planning

April 24, 2024April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

There are a lot of different things private equity firms do ensuring investments are successful. Thankfully many of those things are things entrepreneurs can mimic for the benefit of their own company without necessarily having to buy another business or take on an outside equity partner. Utilizing the three key…

The Rise of “Dequity”

August 21, 2023April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Financing Innovation: The Rise of “Dequity” I was talking with a banker the other day and he used a term that I hadn’t heard before but made a lot of sense. He said, they make ‘dequity’ investments. What he meant was they make loans, but the risk they take and the way…

What’s your EBITDA?

June 1, 2023April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

What’s your EBITDA? When I give speeches I like to wrap up the presentation by doing a group exercise where the participants have to look at a simple set of financial statements and calculate a Company’s EBITDA (earnings before taxes depreciation and amortization). This is the most commonly used financial…

Corporate Financial Planning: The Value of a Process Change

May 9, 2023April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Corporate Financial Planning: The Value of a Business Process Change The Value of a Business Process Change: When thinking about strategies that significantly increase enterprise value, our minds tend to immediately think of strategies that grow revenues like adding a new product, investing more in sales resources or acquiring another…

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