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“We left the founders in too long.”

“We can’t seem to get to the next level.”

“Management loves the product but not the customers.”

“We didn’t see them coming.”

“We have great technology but no customers.”

“We don’t want to run dad’s business.”

“We don’t have time.”

“We’re running out of money.”

For investors, business owners, and boards with problems like these, Lone Mountain Associates can help.

We define our work as corporate surgery. We help organizations do the hard work, which they often resist, of implementing necessary but difficult strategic actions, which can include:

• Downsizing staff
• Divesting non-core businesses
• Disposing of redundant assets
• Redeploying resources
• Changing distribution channels
• Selling or merging the enterprise
• Hiring new management
• Finding a new “permanent” CEO

Lone Mountain Associates also organizes management teams for start up companies. Often entrepreneurs are inventors and engineers, with little experience or interest in the “business” aspects of building a profitable enterprise. LMA can fill the role of start up CEO, with a mandate to develop an effective, experienced management team that will turn the new idea into a real business.

Lone Mountain Associates also provides strategic advice to investors, owners, board members, and heirs of organizations entering or already in transition.

OBJECTIVE: To maximize the total value of the enterprise. Lone Mountain Associates works with business owners, board members, financial advisors, interim CFOs, management, and staff to:

• Stabilize the company’s financial condition.
• Enable the company to raise new debt or equity.
• Redefine markets.
• Reposition products.
• Reshape its organization.
• Reassess alternative investor exit strategies.

URGENCY is required. Lone Mountain Associates’ clients usually do not have the luxury of time. The situation, if not already critical, is getting close to being so. If actions are not taken with a sense of urgency, then all previous investment--of capital, energy, and intelligence—as well as the great idea, technology or legacy, risk being dissipated.

Lone Mountain Associates provides executive leadership to make a transition happen. We have the skills to address the issues of transition and to prepare an organization for leadership that can take it strongly into its markets. Our expertise lies not in particular technologies, products, or markets, but in the design and implementation of transition strategies that move an organization from one place and direction to other, more valuable, destinations and strategies.

If your company or portfolio investment property needs to make a transition happen or if you are a start up investor or entrepreneur, please contact us at:

602-463-0844 or
info@lonemountain.net