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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,…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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 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: 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…

Rent The Runway: Disrupting The Business Model

February 16, 2011April 24, 2024 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

I have to admit, I am a pretty dress type of woman. I love watching the red carpet more than the awards show, and I would rather invest in quality than quantity. I know that when I plunk down my American Express for the once in a lifetime dress, it’s…

Did Borders Not Explore The Future?

February 11, 2011April 24, 2024 by Jennifer Mooney

Jennifer Mooney

I hate to tell you, “I Told you so.” But I told you so. Today’s Headline Breaking News: “Borders Bankruptcy Filing Expected as early as Monday or Tuesday. Borders Plans To Close about 200 stores.” “Movement in a new direction helps you find new cheese.” Everyone else was heading in…