Targeted Companies:
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Early stage companies ready to crossover to expansion stage
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Expansion stage companies needing capital for accelerated growth
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Companies with inconsistent growth and profitability
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Companies with good ideas and strong management that do not have access to traditional financing sources
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Entrepreneur with many years of experience in an industry
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Growing companies with limited working capital or historically under-capitalized revenues from $50M to $5MM
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Strong CEO and management team
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Compelling business characteristics and attractive growth prospects
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Opportunity to generate cash flow quickly
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Recurring revenue and good earnings visibility and potential
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Potential for diversified customer base, markets and industries served
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Well defined niche businesses with defensible market positions
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Preferred industries include: Business Services, Technology Based, Government Contracting, Software, and Specialized Manufacturing
Types of Lending Typically NOT Considered:
- Retail Clothing
- Restaurants
- Speculative real estate
- Start-up businesses where the principal has no prior industry experience
- Businesses that primarily sell alcohol and cigarettes
- Businesses that will re-lend the money to others
- Refinancing of existing debt
- Non-profit organizations
- Transportation and Warehousing (Trucking Companies)
- Businesse deriving more than 1/3 of gross annual revenues from legal gambling
- Businesses which present live performances of a prurient sexual nature or derive more than de minimis gross revenues from the sale of products or services of a prurient sexual nature
- Pryamid sales distributions
- Financial businesses - lenders, check cashing, bail bonds, etc.
- Businesses that limit membership for reasons other than capacity
- Goverment owned entities
- Businesses primarily engaged in political or lobbying activities
