How to solve the value equation and create wealth for CEO Entrepreneurs.

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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.
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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