Making Your Business Work For You™!

Oldhorses^® was incorporated in 2000, by its founder, Douglas W. Crisman.  Applying many years of successful business experience to transition small business owners from the "Status Quo" to "Profitable Growth" is the genesis of the name "oldhorses".  Oldhorses was formed with the specific purpose of assisting owners of small businesses ($1 million or greater in revenues), to rapidly align their businesses to meet the owner's personal goals.  Owners with businesses as small as $300,000 in annual revenues to those as large as $80,000,000 in revenues have benefited.

These results include: building out new product initiatives to increase revenues and business value, improving sales by more than 25% per year, transitioning the owner to a mindset of investor rather than employee, modifying the existing business model to create cash profits in weak, as well as strong economic cycles and selling the business at maximum value.  These results typically include increasing: top line sales, profits, cash generation back to the owner and the value of the business; while increasing future exit options for the owner. 

Oldhorses is a Transition Partnering Firm.  Unlike traditional venture capital firms, oldhorses invests capital by providing the direct business talent and expertise to fill skill gaps, business systems and proven processes to create momentum. It is rewarded through a temporary percentage of the growth, rather than securing a permanent ownership in equity.  This keeps the Owner in control and once the transition is achieved, the Owner can continue to receive the rewards from the growth, after the oldhorses' engagement has ended.

This approach builds on a partnering atmosphere that focuses on creating mutual value through a "low-risk/high-reward", Shared Opportunity Model.  For this reason, oldhorses refers to its services as Transition Partnering Services .