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Texas Business Radio With Lantern Capital Advisors

Texas Business Radio with their National Showcase caught up with Chris Risey from Lantern Capital Advisors to discuss how to grow a business using more capital.  Businesses with access to limited capital are challenged to grow and Lantern helps clients understand their options as it relates to where they want to take their business.  

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  • Using Capital To Grow Your Business September 19, 2023
    Using Capital To Grow Your Business As Featured on Texas Business Radio Texas Business Radio Featured Chris Risey, President of Lantern Capital Advisors as part of their national advisor showcase to discuss how entrepreneurs are using capital to grow their business. Lantern Capital Advisors helps clients understand their options and match their financing needs as it relates […]
    Chris Risey
  • The Rise of “Dequity” August 21, 2023
    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 they look at underwriting loans is similar to an […]
    Chris Risey
  • What’s your EBITDA? June 1, 2023
    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 short hand for understanding the […]
    Chris Risey
  • Corporate Financial Planning: The Value of a Process Change May 9, 2023
    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 business. One strategy that often gets […]
    Chris Risey
  • MBO Management Buyout: PE vs No-PE February 27, 2023
    MBO Management Buyout: PE vs No-PE I have a client pursuing a MBO management buyout of his company from its public parent. As we assessed different management buyout financing options, he had a big decision to make. Did he want to partner with a private equity firm (PE) or do the financing on an all […]
    Chris Risey
  • What’s Your Available Cash? An important, overlooked Financial Key Performance Indicator (KPI) December 12, 2022
    The post What’s Your Available Cash? An important, overlooked Financial Key Performance Indicator (KPI) appeared first on Financing Gazelles.
    Chris Risey
  • Owner Exit Strategies January 24, 2022
    Owners of businesses typically dream of going public or performing an IPO, even though less than 1% of businesses ever achieve this.  However, for the remaining 99% of businesses out there, there are multiple viable options that owners should consider and evaluate when determining their business exit strategy.   Ideally, owners should plan for their owner liquidity […]
    Chris Risey
  • Merchant Cash Advances (MCA) Deceiving Math March 29, 2021
    A lender recently told me a story about how entrepreneurs often get deceived by the cost of MCA (Merchant Cash Advances) loans.  As an example, one owner recently mentioned he was about to get a $121,000 loan that required the company to pay back $165,000 in 9 months and the company calculated the cost of the […]
    Jennifer Mooney
  • Case Study In Growth: Using revenue based financing (RBF) to drive greater growth and enterprise value October 8, 2019
    Available for growing companies with at least $4 million in revenue, revenue based financing is repaid as a percentage of future revenue, over a much LONGER term, typically 4-5 years, rather than short term merchant cash advance loans. The post Case Study In Growth: Using revenue based financing (RBF) to drive greater growth and enterprise […]
    Jennifer Mooney
  • Corporate Finance Advisory is what we do! March 13, 2019
    We see our service as a compliment to a corporate finance management team, but raising capital is a specialty that a lot of people don’t have experience doing. They hire us for specific projects and we come in, raise capital, and move on. The post Corporate Finance Advisory is what we do! appeared first on […]
    Jennifer Mooney
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