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Capistrano Ventures helps your business in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer (a get richer again), and in good times and bad.
In Health:
- Grooming for a capital or liquidity event. Whether fund raising (debt or equity) or another major event such as a sale or capital restruturing, CV needs 3 to 18 months to thoroughly plan and execute this plan for your business to enjoy an optimal outcome.
- Shattering growth barriers. Typically because of people issues or product limitations, companies struggle to get to the next level. CV enables you to focus on going broader, deeper, and much faster.
- Leading innovation. Innovate or die - in the national and global economy, that is a simple truth. But innovation is extremely complicated and fragile organism. CV can turn stagnation, stasis or even the mere germ of an idea into a commercial reality by coordinating all aspects of innovation.
In Sickness:
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Adapting to vastly different overall economic conditions. What worked back in 2006 just doesn't work in 2009 or into the next decade. CV deals with this new and grueling reality.
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Surviving a turnaround. If a turnaround is necessary, whether mandated by external forces or chosen by internal wisdom, CV looks to minimize your pain and maximize the long-term potential pleasure.
Good Times and Bad
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Resolving leadership and management issues. General management issues insidiously emerge over time, expecially at family companies, as people change at their unique individual rates, while business circumstances fluctuate wildly. CV provides highest objectivity to both diagnose root problems and create win/win solutions.
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Implementing a successful merger. It takes much more than good intentions and closing parties to be among the 30% of mergers that work. There is no accurate map for this territory. CV ensures that the big picture plan is sound and that the small picture inpmementation (people and operating details) become reality - via structures that work and ongoing, iterative feedback and course correction.
Capistrano Ventures has the experience, relationships, and tools to solve your small business problems. And while we believe strongly in using proven frameworks, each small business problem is distinctive, always requiring judgement and attention to detail.
For example, in grooming a company for a capital event, as a starting point, Capistrano Ventures:
- Considers all components and outcomes of a client's position:
- Fundability
- Value and valuation
- Operating performance
- Equity dilution and cost of capital
- Merger/Acquisition positioning
- Find growth and exit capital for established, operating Microcap companies.
- Cultivate our own sources of capital - debt, equity and hybrids.
- Deliver operating and board level services as experienced, balanced general managers with strong leadership skills and deep functional expertise, whatever the needs of the clients.
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