Stop Chasing the Contrail: The Architecture of Cash Velocity for Modern CFOs For decades, CFO performance has been judged by a familiar contrail: trailing EBITDA. It is clean, auditable, and easy to explain. It is backward-looking. EBITDA records what already happened, not whether the business has the liquidity and momentum required to fund what comes...
Capital Source Reports $63.3 Million Deployed Across Diverse Portfolio in 2025 Chicago — January 26, 2026 — Capital Source®, through its Private Credit Division, announced another strong year of execution and growth in 2025, deploying $63.3 million across a diverse portfolio of small and lower-middle market businesses throughout North America and Canada. Throughout the year,...
Why Capital Timing Often Matters More Than Capital Price Introduction Capital decisions often fixate on price since price is visible. It can be compared, negotiated, and defended. Timing works differently. It rarely appears on a term sheet, yet it determines whether capital accelerates growth or compensates for decay. Two capital raises at identical prices can...
The Real Cost of Money Isn’t the Rate Introduction In business finance, few mistakes are as persistent—or as costly—as misjudging the true cost of capital. CFOs and owners routinely compare interest rates, factor rates, or headline pricing as if those figures capture the full economic impact of a financing decision. They do not. The real...
The Hidden Cost of Lost Momentum in Growing Organizations Part 4 of a series on capital, time, and organizational velocity Introduction Most organizational damage does not arrive dramatically. It accumulates quietly. Momentum fades long before results decline—and by the time the slowdown is visible in metrics, recovery is expensive. For growing organizations, momentum is not...
