by Al Davis | Dec 6, 2017 | In Our Experience
It is generally incorrectly assumed that business cycles arise out of the free market system. But rather they are the consequence of the expansion and contraction of using unsound money and credit. Since 2013, an average of 37 private credit funds has...
by Al Davis | Nov 22, 2017 | In Our Experience
Today would be the day for another blog from Revitalization Partners. But, since we and many of our readers are beginning the Thanksgiving holiday, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you for reading and commenting on our blog. We wish you the...
by Al Davis | Nov 16, 2017 | M&A/Capital Markets
Over the past year, Revitalization Partners has been asked by several our clients to assist them in raising additional debt for their companies. In most of these cases they have either outgrown their current debt facilities or the company has hit a roadblock...
by Al Davis | Nov 2, 2017 | In Our Experience
We recently have read several surveys citing increasing business optimism, particularly in the lower-middle market. In fact, a survey published by the law firm, Dykema, in late October of this year, expressed an overall bullish viewpoint of the economy bringing...
by Al Davis | Oct 18, 2017 | In Our Experience
As you know, we generally write our own blogs every two weeks. But, in this case, we read an article that was so compelling that we wanted to share it with our readers. The writer is Charlie Perer of Super G Capital, one of the new, creative lenders that has...
by Al Davis | Oct 4, 2017 | In Our Experience
There is a company that makes shaving cream. They use all the typical methods of marketing from television to social media, to print advertising. They even advertise on NFL games. And, by the way, it’s actually pretty good shaving cream, having taken a...
by Al Davis | Sep 21, 2017 | In Our Experience
A number of years ago, in a valley called Silicon, a bright aggressive sales manager was recruited by a venture capital firm to be Vice President of Sales for a “hot” startup. The initial funding was reasonable, even if the VC’s paid a bit too...
by Al Davis | Sep 7, 2017 | In Our Experience
As we took some time off from our blog, I ended up on a boat trip wearing a tee shirt that had the title of this blog on the back. And the number of comments that I got was truly amazing. From “What is Plan B?” to “Do you really have a Plan...
by Al Davis | Aug 9, 2017 | In Our Experience
It all started when I set out to buy a drone. The drone market has been growing rapidly and includes such companies as GoPro that started the “action video” market. In order to understand this market, lets look at a few numbers. According to...
by Al Davis | Jul 26, 2017 | In Our Experience
Over the years we have worked with many businesses ranging from startups to very large multinational companies. In many situations, they are companies that have fallen on hard times, with declining sales and profits and we find that management is scrambling on...
