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Financing Challenges: How We Helped a Client Buy His Division From The Owner

April 24, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Management Buyout Financing Challenges: How Lantern Capital Advisors helped a client buy his division from the owner. Situation: A divisional manager wanted to buy his division from the owner who was having financing challenges with the bank. How Lantern Capital Advisors helped execute the management buyout: Lantern helped the manager…

Growth and Liquidity Financing: How We Helped a Client Fund Faster Growth and Take Capital Out of Business

April 18, 2017April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Growth Capital and Liquidity Financing: How Lantern Capital Advisors helped a client fund faster growth and take capital out of the business. Situation: Owners of a growing software and services company were interested to explore financing alternatives to fund faster growth as well as take capital out of the business. How…

10 Strategies To Raise Capital Effectively

November 10, 2016April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Attached 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 their business (and equity.) For example,…

The (Pricing) Power of Competition

October 15, 2016April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

[caption id="attachment_380" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The Power Of Competition[/caption] We recently completed a $25 million management led buyout for one of our clients. Even after doing this for many years, I am always surprised by what I learn or what I am reminded of. In this case its, the power of…

How To Get Funding Sources Interested In Your Business

August 15, 2016April 24, 2024 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

Entrepreneurs have great ideas, and know how to execute the idea. Typically they are visionaries, and excel at articulating their business proposition, know who they are going to go after, and can sell their product to those that have a need for what they’ve got. Entrepreneurs are the most interesting…

Message To Management: Don’t Wait!

June 30, 2016April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

Last week I got a call from a CEO of small software company. His parent was in the process of selling his company. The process of selling the business was taking longer than expected and the price was below the range the seller really wanted. He called to ask me…

Smart Money Doesn’t Ensure Success

June 30, 2016April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

VCs are often called 'smart money,' because they are more selective about investments than the average angel investor or friends/family member. However, that doesn't mean everything they touch turns to gold. A 2009 WSJ article listed companies that raised substantial sums of money only to fail in a fairly short…

Weekly What If: What If Owners Take Liquidity Now?

April 22, 2016April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

What If Owners Took Liquidity Now? A profitable software company decided to sell but initial valuations were below their expected value and they wanted to be patient and wait for potentially higher offers. Management was confident that business would be more valuable with each passing month, so an interesting question…

Weekly What If: Buy Out Business Partner

March 14, 2016April 24, 2024 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

[caption id="attachment_342" align="alignright" width="300"] Exit Strategies[/caption] What if we buyout our business partner? For some companies, their biggest roadblock to growth isn’t a lack of ideas, motivation or initiative. It is a business partner that has other priorities. For companies with significant growth potential, this challenge arises frequently. One owner…

Weekly What If: Testing The Capital Markets Before Accessing The Markets

March 4, 2016April 24, 2024 by Chris Risey

Chris Risey

As the financial markets began to unravel late in summer of 2008, many financial institutions stopped funding new investments. This directly impacted all sorts of companies and their ability to get new financing. For us, a corporate financial consulting firm that raises capital for growing companies, this was a particularly…

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