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

August 20, 2024August 20, 2024 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…

What’s Your Available Cash? An important, overlooked Financial Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

December 12, 2022September 21, 2023 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Available Cash: What's Your Available Cash? An important, overlooked FINANCIAL KPI (Key Performance Indicator) Available Cash? I recently got asked by a CFO a question, I thought worth sharing. "How much cash should we maintain on our balance sheet in our business’? I believe its good for companies to have…

Case Study In Growth: Using revenue based financing (RBF) to drive greater growth and enterprise value

October 8, 2019August 31, 2021 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

A 20 year old software company was working to develop some exciting new products. Management had scoped out its future features and functions and shared their solution concepts with potential customers who showed strong interest. The challenge was it would cost the company $1 million beyond their free cash flow to complete…

Corporate Finance Advisory is what we do!

March 13, 2019July 12, 2022 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

We receive a lot of inquiries, but today one came through that I immediately replied to. First of all, I love it when women reach out to Lantern, and it warms my heart that it came from a high school student. Lantern Capital Advisors specializes in corporate finance advisory services…

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