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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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  • 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
  • Revenue Based Financing: Refinance Your Merchant Cash Advance Loans February 25, 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 Revenue Based Financing: Refinance Your Merchant Cash Advance Loans appeared first on Financing Gazelles.
    Jennifer Mooney
  • The Rise of “Dequity” August 21, 2018
    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
  • The NFL’s Long Term Financial Goal July 1, 2018
    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. But as I thought about […]
    Chris Risey
  • Acquisition Strategies – Think Small to Go Big June 27, 2018
    Acquisition Strategies – Think Small to Go Big On several occasions, I have met or worked with entrepreneurs that built valuable businesses by effectively executing several small acquisitions. These companies have been in industries such as staffing, insurance and financial services as well as electronic and light manufacturing. Several of these companies reached enterprise values […]
    Chris Risey
  • Corporate Financial Planning: The Value of a Process Change May 9, 2018
    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
  • Another Exit Planning Option: Sell To Management March 27, 2018
    Internal Management Buyout: Another Exit Planning Option: Sell to Management The one exit planning strategy that most often gets overlooked is an internal management buyout but it’s an approach that has several advantages that owners should seriously consider. This post is a very short explanation of 1) how an internal management buyout works, 2) who […]
    Chris Risey
  • MBO Management Buyout: PE vs No-PE February 27, 2018
    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
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