How to Scale a Business With a Cash Flow Problem

We run a done-for-you photo booth business, specialized on night clubs only. We are on our way to hit 1 million revenue this year. Business model is we own the booths, we put them in the night clubs, we earn per picture that the guest takes, and we pay a commission to the club. That brought us to our real constraint, which is cash flow. At the moment, we are at like 17 months till the booth is paid back, and we need to bring that to 1 to 2. That is my constraint. >> How much are the machines? >> Uh it's like 7K. >> I wonder if instead of owning them, you could lease them from the manufacturer. Cuz the thing is is like if you own it, in 6 years it might be outdated and need to get You know what I mean? Like it might you might need a refresh anyways. And what you really care about is just placing them and having the spread. The constraint of the business, you basically have two options outside of changing a business that already works. Option one is that like you can get a capital injection, meaning like you sell a small part for a big amount of money, and then use that cash to then get you from 80 to, you know, to 200 or 300 or whatever. Cuz like if you had a million bucks, right? That would mean uh you'd get 13 per million. I'm just rough math, right? Uh thir- 13 13 um things per uh sorry, per per 100K. Uh so you get 130 more with a million dollars, right? And so that would almost triple the business. Um not quite, but almost. And so it's like maybe somebody be willing to do that. But I would probably just look at the lease model if that was the constraint of my business. Cuz if if you can just do that, and you can scale limitlessly,