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Solving the Value Equation

An Introduction to Ephor Group

For entrepreneurs to create wealth for themselves, their employees, and their shareholders from their business; they must transform themselves into a "CEO Entrepreneur" and their company into an post growth stage “Institutional” sector leader.

Did you know that more than 400,000 new businesses are created every year in the United States, but less than 1% make it ten years, and less than one percent reach $10M in annual revenues?

Entrepreneurs whom are dedicated to creating wealth beyond simply creating a cash-flow positive, lifestyle oriented business, face a conundrum. Either choose to take the cash out of the business during the life of the business, i.e. commit to a cash-flow oriented lifestyle business, or reinvest in the business until it scales and outgrows the capabilities of the entrepreneur at which time, the entrepreneur can growth capitalize, or minority recapitalize, with an outsider to cash in and create wealth. Small businesses are small because founders do not get the guidance they need to transform into CEO Entrepreneurs.

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Solving the Value Equation Operating Principles for Entrepreneurs to Create Wealth

Ephor Principles

1. CEO Entrepreneurs are the key to wealth creation.

2. Solve the Value Equation by Focusing on Creating the Transformational Sector Leader.

3. Focus leadership on a perform culture.

4. Operating Principles of Wealth Creation start with Organizational Clarity: Strategic to Operational to Tactical Clarity.

Questions answered by partnering with Ephor Group

1. Operating principles for CEO Entrepreneurs to create wealth.

2. How to create wealth crossing from startup to enterprise.

3. How to retain control of your vision while capturing the market opportunity.

4. How to avoid making common management errors.

Outcomes of working with Ephor:

1. A precise understanding of the business model attributes and skills required to create institutional wealth.

2. A holistic approach to your business model versus a functional approach.

3. A roadmap of how to cross the chasm from a “subscale” state to institutional capital worthiness.

4. Creation of a Perform Culture through Institutionalization of Management Science, and effective leadership principles.

How We Work

We start every engagement with a pragmatic analysis of your situation from a holistic and multi functional perspective.

To Solve the Value Equation answer the following questions:

How do we create a transformational business

How do we maximize shareholder wealth

 

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Ephor Group, LLC 

An Introduction to “Solving the Value Equation” 

After a nearly 15 years of advising entrepreneurs, financial sponsors, and investors, we've formed a 

precise picture of the business services sector, where it is headed, how to create sector impact business 

models, resulting in significant wealth creation for entrepreneurs and shareholders. We believe that 

creating value is the alignment of strategic initiatives and day‐to‐day execution.  

 

 

Top Ten Reasons to Work with Ephor 

1. Our mission is to create wealth for our clients by building the best business models; thereby “Solving the Value Creation” on what it takes to create wealth.   

2. Our value is that we increase EBITDA performance, refine operating processes to create scalability, implement sustainable long‐term capabilities, and develop the appropriate strategic alternatives, resulting in significant shareholder value creation.   

3. Our people are experienced and proven professionals, results‐oriented former owners and operators of businesses with significant C‐level experience, multi‐functional backgrounds, coupled with extensive technology and business services sector experience.   

4. Our philosophy is a holistic, outcomes driven, accountability based, and in alignment with the objectives of the company, and the addressable market opportunity.    

5. Our science develops organizations wherever they are situated in their business lifecycle.    

6. Our results include 28 clients, since our inception in 2002, whom have joined the INC. 5000 award companies and the creation of $4.5B in wealth for Founders/Owners/Shareholders. 

7. Our approach is pragmatic, process oriented and performance based and results in companies 

positioned as “transformational” within their sector. 

8. Our objective is to create the most effective and efficient business model within the sector.   

9. Our process initiates with a pragmatic assessment of your business which includes a “Yellow 

Brick Road” leading to successful value creation.   

10. Our partners include entrepreneurs, financial sponsors, and investors committed to creating transformational sector leaders.  

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We solve the gap between entrepreneurs and investors to help cross the chasm from emerging and innovative to transformational sector leader. 

 

 The Big Idea.  For entrepreneurs to create wealth for themselves, their employees, and their shareholders from their business; they must transform themselves into a "CEO Entrepreneur."  

  Solution.  Augment the entrepreneur to create the “CEO Entrepreneur.” The gap is management of the transition from a subscale1 business to a scaled enterprise and ultimately a market sector leader. We support the “CEO Entreprenuer” by provide the skill and resources necessary to augment the Entrepreneurial Leader in order to  to create wealth, crossing the chasm from a small to enterprise business.  Being a successful leader requires many of the fundamental gifts and talents of an entrepreneuer such as: Passionate and Confident Belief, Ability to Build and Lead a Team, Creativity, Inspiration.  Entrepreners are natual leaders, therefore given the right skill and resource support they can transition to be successful “CEO Entrprereneurs”!  

 

Our Approach.  We select clients and investments that desire to achieve “best of breed” operational performance resulting in exponential shareholder value creation. We take a holistic approach and performance based results approach. We start with a discussion of how you compare to sector comparables.  

 The Results.   It's simple.  Better managed companies outperform the competition across all attributes. For private companies, sacrificing short‐term profits in order to create more efficiency and be the market leader.  Our tombstone results and client lists speak for themselves.   

Contact Ephor[at] EphorGroup dot com to discuss your sector comparables. 

   

                                                            1 Scaled enterprise size varies by sector, but includes zero founder financial dependencies.  

"More important than ever before, the development of the CEO 

Entrepreneur is the key to job creation, and wealth creation." 

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HCM & HRO Sector Solving the Value Equation  

Founded in 2002, Ephor Group has deployed approximately $450M of capital on behalf of institutional investors, and for our own portfolio, representing 22 companies, resulting in creating 

nearly $4.5B in shareholder value. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ephor portfolio clients exhibit the following star performer attributes: 

More revenue sources than competitors 

Lower cost of sales 

A portfolio of solutions coupled with high margins 

Higher revenue and profits per employee