Shone Capital was founded in December 2008, right in the middle of the worst economic period the world has seen since the Great Depression. My previous 10 years in banking, private lending and investment banking had shown me that small and medium sized businesses were ignored altogether by high end firms providing financial advisory and mergers and acquisitions services. 2008 was the critical year these businesses needed the most help navigating the newly harsh lending environment. Shone Capital was founded to fill that gap in the market.
Entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of capitalism and the economy and financing their businesses is the lifeblood of the entrepreneurs. What I have found is the great vast majority of founders and entrepreneurs are ether sales people or technical people, neither of which have background in financing and raising capital, nor mergers and acquisitions. They should also not be expected to know these specialized and sophisticated areas of business. That is why Shone Capital exists, to fill this knowledge gap and open up a network of unique funders, buyers and sellers to meet the needs of the entrepreneur.
How we operate, we believe, is completely unique in the market in that we start the process discussing long term goals for the entrepreneur for themselves and their business, regardless of why they have approached us. When raising capital, decisions today weigh heavily on the company’s ability to make decisions tomorrow and they must be carefully assessed to ensure long term goals can be achieved. Financial strategy plays the largest role in working with clients to balance short term and long term goals.
We exist to provide Wall Street advice for Main Street prices. We only succeed if you succeed!
Jim Shone CFA MBA
