Karen Rands - The Compassionate Capitalist Podcast Show

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In this very personal and direct video/podcast message, Karen Rands shares the financial and emotional benefits of being an Angel Investor -- whether you claim it as a Compassionate Capitalist, Silent Partner, Right Quadrant Business Owner & Investor, or Crowdfunding Investor.    Karen shares her 'aha moment' of realizing that 7 Million people in the USA collect a pay check that easily puts them into the income bracket to invest and own small amounts of other entrepreneurs' businesses in order to share in their financial success without all the risks of starting and owning that business themselves.   The average rate of return for the angel investor, that takes time to learn how to evaluate the merits of an entrepreneur's opportunity and develop a diversified portfolio, far exceeds that of real estate and the stock market.  Karen will be offering a special opportunity in June - Hump Month - for those investors who plan to invest in a private company this year.  To get details of the deal, Investors need to sign up for access to the ISAV Resource Portal and their free entry level membership in the National Network of Angel Investors by then.  Find the access code in her book Inside Secrets to Angel Investors.    Get the book (PB $19.95 / Kindle $9.99 on Amazon) http://InsideSecretstoAngelInvesting.com ASAP so you won't miss this opportunity that will save investors time and money and potentially their entire angel investment.    Not sure -- get the free ebook - 12 Inside Secrets explained http://bit.ly/Get12SecretsEbook Get access to all episodes of The Compassionate Capitalist Movement and links to the podcast player platform at http://karenrands.co/blog Watch Video: https://youtu.be/2p-LM3g3CdQ

The Legalization of Equity Crowd Funding was the catalyst for the great Economic Democratization of the Capital Markets.  Although crowdfunding started with reward based, the advent of the JOBS Act in 2012 introduced 4 ways to raise equity capital from the crowd.  The expanded pool of additional investors are not your typical angel investors.  These 4 methods remove the invisible wall between entrepreneurs and their potential investors.  There is still great confusion on how to best use equity crowdfunding to raise capital, and even more so, how traditional retail stock investors can get involved in a low risk way and start investing in the entrepreneurs with 'unicorn potential' or the small business owners that are well established and are seeking an amount of growth capital that is not available from their bank and they don't fit a Venture Capitalist or Private Equity Fund criteria. They can be as solid of an investment as a retail stock, but with much greater upside potential.  The 4 methods to solicit from the general public, to crowd fund, are not created equal.  Each has it's unique benefits to entrepreneurs and investors.  Watch and Listen as Karen explains the difference in the 4 equity Crowd Funding, Direct Public Offering methods:  Intrastate Exemption (Reg D 504), Reg D 506c, Reg CF and Reg A+.  Get the book that launched a movement, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing :  Step-by-Step Strategies to Leverage Private Equity Investment for Passive Wealth Creation.  YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/O_M27XJDIbY

In this segment of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast, Karen Rands responds to an entrepreneur's question:  What is an Angel Investor?   Since 2012, the definition and the game to attract angel investors has changed.  Once considered only an activity available for an exclusive group of entrepreneurs turned investors, the access to capital and those who can invest in an entrepreneur's success to share that wealth all changed with the passage of the JOBS Act to stimulate the economy. Angel Investing is the 2nd best source for creating generational wealth, but less than 5% of the US public knows about it. Karen explains the history and evolution of angel investing and the good news: the wall between entrepreneurs and would-be investors has been removed, creating opportunity for financial success through entrepreneurism for the founders and the investors.  Listen and learn the 4 ways entrepreneurs can solicit for investors from the general public of potential investors outside of the structured angel network funnel--- and the four easy ways ANYONE with disposable income and liquidity in their investment strategy can invest in entrepreneurs from startup to growth stage, in their community or thousands of miles away.   Karen also shares the emotional and financial benefits investors have shared with her when investing in cool innovation and brilliant entrepreneurs.  Get Karen's bestselling primer about angel investing Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, see what is in the resource portal and see sample content at http://InsideSecretsToAngelInvesting.com Learn how Karen's team help investors get started, screen deals, conduct due diligence and syndicate the deals they like with the National Network of Angel Investors - http://kugarand.com #Podcast #AngelInvesting #investing #angelinvestor #JOBSact #crowdfunding #entrepreneur YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/WwksqOkKL9s

How would you answer the question:  What would you do if you were given $100M no questions asked ?  How would you benefit the world with that gift that would compound the impact? That is what Karen was asked at a recent entrepreneur/investor event she attended.  Well not exactly.  Not the part about benefiting the world or compounding the impact.  That is just how she thinks.   As the founder of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement, it is on her heart to leave a legacy, her 'thumbprint' on the world, that amplifies wealth creation through increasing the available capital actively seeking qualified entrepreneur endeavors to invest in and produce a multiple on that money so that it can be reinvested again and again and again.  In this episode, Karen talks about the Compassionate Capitalist Movement, and the actions she would take, the programs she would create, and types of projects she would lead investment in if she was blessed with such a financial gift (or investment, or sponsorship) whether $100M, $10M, $1M or even $100K.  An investment in her vision for the Compassionate Capitalist Show as the megaphone for the Compassionate Capitalist Movement would accellerate the delivery of education, workshops, deal syndication, and wealth for the entrepreneurs and investors that join. Referenced in the podcast: ThumbPrint on the World: http://bit.ly/KCHthumb Land Betterment Corporation: https://bit.ly/CCSBetterment Vertical Farming Green Eden: https://bit.ly/CCSEden Get the Book: http://bit.ly/AngelInsideSecrets Leave a Book Review: https://amzn.to/3HDbIKo Leave a Reviw or Testimony for Karen: https://bit.ly/KYR-review Sign up for Karen's video tidbits of wealth: http://bit.ly/CCCB-signup Watch on Youtube. https://youtu.be/ZUXZ6W31W4g

We use less than 20% of our natural ability to achieve success.  Listen to learn how to leverage how you think to achieve a 7+ figure income.   Think It, Be It Founder, John Mitchell, joins Karen Rands on The Compassionate Capitalist Show to share the Science of Success.  Feeling stuck, John used tried and true, but often overlooked, methods to figure out his personal breakthrough to go from earning a few hundred thousand a year to growing his own business to $5M in Revenue, and a big windfall when he sold it at a $25M valuation. John discovered the disconnect between his efforts and the results that had been holding him back - the beliefs locked into his unconscious mind.   John shares with Karen how he used science to amplify his (and our) innate ability to succeed when we apply science to align our conscious goals and objectives with the 'auto-pilot' manifestations of desires and action by our sub-conscious mind.   John Mitchell's 12 min a day program takes the principals of the famed Think & Grow Rich book by Napoleon Hill, and puts them into an actionable and relevant framework to chart your way to your ideal life of health, happiness and prosperity.  What a great way to start off 2022!! John's team has created a special opportunity to complete a short assessment and schedule a free consultation call with him. You can also download his proprietary "thinking tablet guide", and more....  Get your gift here:  https://thinkitbeit.com/cc/ Karen Rands, the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement and author of the Best Seller, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich.  Visit http://KarenRands.co to learn why Investors hire her firm to identify the red flags of deal before you invest or try to raise capital, and entrepreneurs trust her to advise and manage on their capital campaign.

Startup entrepreneurs can feel like they are on treadmill never reaching their goal of $1M in revenue.  Even established Business Owners can feel they are in the rat race, stuck on a track, with no end in sight.  They used the investor seed capital to reach their initial milestone of millions in revenue, but feel like they are out of gas and plateaued, with no way to reach the 8 or 9 figure revenue target they need to sell their business.   With the black swan event of the pandemic, a business that is on target can derail and struggle to get back on track.   So what is an inspired, motivated, goal oriented entrepreneur to do?   Listen to this podcast for starters.  Blair Singer joins Karen Rands on the Compassionate Capitalist Show to share the principles of sales success and corporate growth strategy that he has used to elevate thousands of entrepreneurs and their business revenue.  What they talk about is the foundation for accelerated growth and revenue ramp up key to all three scenarios to get un-stuck and on track to reach your financial targets.  Blair Singer is a world renowned expert in sales and business growth and author of the best sellers Sales Dogs, written with Robert Kiyosaki as part of the Rich Dad book series, and Little Voice Mastery.   His Sales Academy is offered around the world, experiencing a 6 X growth in impact since the start of COVID.  Learn more at http://blairsinger.com  Karen Rands, the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement and author of the Best Seller, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, is an authority on creating financial success through successfully informing the next generation of entrepreneurs and investors together in the name of Compassionate Capitalism!  Learn More:  http://KarenRands.co https://www.karenrands.co/breakthrough-strategies-to-create-millions-in-revenue-with-blair-singer/ Youtube https://youtu.be/fQVwQidfiEA

This episode of the Compassionate Capitalist Show Podcast will explore the history of black enterprise, racial policies intended to aid in economic prosperity and racist practices that created barriers and obstacles to African American prosperity. True equality comes with economic prosperity. The Compassionate Capitalist Podcast will explore the history of black enterprise, and government policies intended to aid in economic prosperity, and the racist practices that created barriers and obstacles to African American prosperity so that wealth and education gap which exists today has its roots dating back to the late 1800.  History shows time and time again how naive, well intentioned white people, in the spirit of compromise, released authority and control to other white people that had a sole intent to harm and hinder black people from achieving equality - socially and economically. There are many examples of progress being made and initiatives seeking to grow black entrepreneurship, wealth creation, and reinvestment into the communities that have been neglected and abandoned.   As we look forward with these new sources of funding and entrepreneur development, we must also look back to see how to fix the fissure that over a 100 years of systemic racism has caused in our communities.  If you are opposed to giving hand outs, then give a hand up.  Work to get the loopholes that enable racists to harm and prevent the success and empowerment of people of color out of our financial, judicial, and legislative systems. Visit the full blog post to get all the links:  Podcast & Blog Part 1: http://bit.ly/CCR-BLM1 Podcast & Blog Part 2 with Links for Black Founder's access to Capital at: http://bit.ly/CCR-BLM2 Karen Rands offers coaching programs for entrepreneurs seeking to prepare to raise capital and strategies to obtain capital and connect with investors. Her firm also offers deal screening and due diligence for investors:  Visit: http://karenrands.co

Watch or Listen to this lively conversation with Compassionate Capitalist Show Host, Karen Rands &  Industry Expert, Brett Putter talking about Creating & Preserving Corporate Culture in the New Normal of Remote Working. Working remote and virtual teams have become the new normal.   How do you create and maintain a corporate culture and do you actually need one?  Brett and Karen explore how a startup can control their chaos and set the stage for success or failure in how the build their culture in their team work and in their hiring practices.    Brett Putter is the CEO of CultureGene, a culture leadership software and services platform--- uses a powerful software platform to conduct multi-person workshops in real time to guide the team through a rigorous process to define and embed a corporate culture. In 2018 he published his first book, Culture Decks Decoded and his second book Own Your Culture: How to Define, Embed and Manage your Company Culture in September 2020.  https://www.culturegene.ai/ Karen Rands, the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement, and author of the Best Seller, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing.  Karen is successfully informing the next generation of entrepreneurs and investors together in the name of Compassionate Capitalism!  Learn More:  http://KarenRands.co Check out the book and get 12 of the 46 Inside Secrets Free http://InsideSecretsToAngelInvesting.com With your purchase of the book, you get access to Karen's resource portal for investors. YOUTUBE:  https://youtu.be/fR6vZcvboN4

Karen Rands is joined by Cliff Holekamp, managing partner and co-founder of Cultivation Capital, to talk about the growth in entrepreneurism as a stimulus to local economies.   Cities out of Silicon Valley and the Boston/New York corridor struggle to cultivate entrepreneurs and community based sources of capital to grow the jobs in their community and fuel economic development.   Boutique VC firms like Cultivation Capital seek to change that narrative by investing their time, knowledge, resources and capital to partner with those founders who are poised to make significant impact on the local economy with job creation and cultivation of ecosystem to plant seeds of prosperity. Karen & Cliff also discuss industry trends and best practices for entrepreneurs to achieve success.  Cliff Holekamp, heads up the Cultivation Capital VC Fund in Greenville SC, as a secondary office to their HQ in St. Louis.  The fund was started in 2012 and has expanded to offer capital in 4 areas: Software, BioTech, AgTech, GeoFacial Tech.  Learn more about  Cultivation Capital: https://cultivationcapital.com/ Karen Rands launched the Compassionate Capitalist Movement with the publication of her best seller, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing bring economic prosperity to communities eager to cultivate innovation and entrepreneurism.   To learn more, visit http://karenrands.co  Also available as a video: https://youtu.be/3YJKgnQr378 You can also find the Compassionate Capitalist Show on all major podcast platforms.  There is a new show every Tuesday.  Please Subscribe.

Karen Rands, host of the Compassionate Capitalist Show, is joined by Vernon Lee, Jr., co-founder and managing partner of The Marathon Fund to talk about the shift in paradigm toward the realization that diverse founders of funded startups outperform traditional venture  backed companies led by white male founders.  The data is clear but the process for diverse founders to get funding to get started is muddy. The good news is that conversations started pre-2020 helped to shine the light on the challenges for access to capital for diverse founders that crystalized in 2020 and opened up the doors for more dedicated funding allocation in corporate equity, venture, and angel funds.  Karen & Vernon dig into the topic and discuss the elevation and availability of capital for underserved for companies from start to growth stage: past, present & future. Mr. Vernon Lee, Jr is a Partner and Co-Founder of The Marathon Fund, an early-stage equity fund primarily investing in high-growth innovative businesses. The fund aims to deploy capital with exceptional entrepreneurs that have been historically underrepresented (Black, LatinX, Women, Disabled, Veterans, and LGBTQ) in the institutional private capital markets. Mr Lee is also a member of the Global Impact Fund II investment committee.  Mr. Lee previously chaired the Venture Capital Access Program (VCAP), a partnership between The Marathon Foundation, Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York (HBSAANY), and the National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC). He is also a judge for the i.Invest National Youth Business competition and Startup Runway pitch competition.  For more information please visit:  www.themarathonfund.com Watch Interview: https://youtu.be/W4gTH3ZIgaQ Karen Rands, the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement and author of the Best Seller, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich.  Visit http://KarenRands.co to learn why Investors hire her firm to identify the red flags of deal before you invest or try to raise capital, and entrepreneurs trust her to advise and manage on their capital campaign.  SOCIAL MEDIA: http://twitter.com/karen_rands  http://facebook.com/theKarenRands http://instagram.com/compassionatecapitalist http://linkedin.com/in/karenrands

Donna Griffit, the Corporate Storyteller, joins Karen Rands on the Compassionate Capitalist Show to share the why, what, & how of pitching investors and compelling them to invest in your company, innovation & opportunity.  In this segment, Karen and Donna enthusiastically discuss the Art and the Science of pitching investors.   They talk about what must be in a pitch deck Why -- vision statement, passion What -- what is your product -- we do x for y for z How -- demo within a user story.   Do you know what the language of love is for Investors?  Do you know the formula for delivering a pitch that predictable in its success but unique to your opportunity?  How do you create FOMO with investors (Fear of Missing Out)? Is there a difference to delivering a pitch online vs in person?  Is pitching investors in Silicon Valley different than the rest of the world?  How can women pitch male investors and have a positive outcome?  Listen to hear the answers to each of these thought provokers.  Donna Griffit,  Corporate Storyteller, has worked globally for over 16 years with Fortune 500 companies, Start-Ups, and investors in a wide variety of industries. Through her guidance, clients have raised over a billion dollars.  She was recently featured on Forbes, where she explained how she has helped female founders raise millions from investors.  According to The Next Web, Donna is in the top 100 of the best tech & business women speakers. For more information visit http://donnagriffit.com  Watch on Youtube:  https://youtu.be/yCgjASWKS78 Karen Rands, the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement and author of the Best Seller, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich.  Visit http://KarenRands.co to learn how to hire her firm to identify the red flags of deal before you invest or try to raise capital.  Subscribe & Share this podcast Check out the book and get 12 of the 46 Inside Secrets Free http://InsideSecretsToAngelInvesting.com With your purchase of the book, you get access to Karen's resource portal for investors.  SOCIAL MEDIA: http://twitter.com/karen_rands  http://facebook.com/theKarenRands http://instagram.com/compassionatecapitalist http://linkedin.com/in/karenrands

Karen Rands brought back this dynamic and highly informative interview with Dave Savage from 2019 because when the content is good it is timeless.   This show will provide entrepreneurs and investors insights into what can & must be done, and how to do it, before a company hires an expensive patent attorney (patents do not = a company) or spends a chunk of change on a prototype or begins looking for investment from angel investors.  Karen and Dave also discuss the ins and outs off bringing an invention to market and determining the best course of action, whether to startup a company or license the innovation.   Dave Savage is a successful inventor and patent holder himself, and former President of the Inventors' Association of Georgia, Dave advises inventors and product developers through his firm, Pointer Consulting.   Dave offers a wealth of free resoures for inventors at DaveSavage.com/for-entrepreneurs-and-inventors.html and a free 20 min consultation.  Karen offers a coaching program for entrepreneurs to figure out their path to success and how to gain access to capital.   Sign up for the free video newsletter on tips and techniques for getting to market and you'll get a link for free consultation with Karen - at http://karenrands.co/contact   Karen is also the best selling Author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investing - the primer for learning how to invest in entrepreneurs at all levels and stages.   Click the About the Book tab on her website.  Investors hire Karen Rands' firm to conduct initial deal review to identify the red flags that will limit the company's ability to scale and exit so the investor can focus their time, attention and money toward opportunities with the besst odds for success.  Please subscribe, give a 5 star rating and share if you find this information helpful.

Self Directed Retirement Accounts (IRA and ROTH) have long been a means to put retirement funds to work creating greater yield by investing in alternative investments -- LLP for Oil & Gas, Minerals, Real Estate---AND private ventures.  Many long term employees have climbed the corporate ladder and earned matching funds from their employers to accumulate their golden 'nest egg'.  The wealthy get wealthier because they know this Inside Secret: converting some or all of their 401K golden nest egg into their own venture fund with a specific diversification strategy for short term and long term gains, plus a steady feed of Earnings and Capital Gains that go back into the retirement account tax free or tax deferred, depending on the structure.  It is not common knowledge, and why it is an 'inside secret' that Karen covers in her book Inside Secrets to Angel Investing.  Listen to how to use this as an entrepreneur seeking investment capital or as an angel investing seeking better returns than offered through traditional stock exchange investing. This is a replay of an interview from January of 2020 with guest Patrick Hagen, the National Director of Business Development for STRATA Trust Company, a self-directed IRA custodian that specializes in holding alternative assets for IRA/401(k) account holders. Karen & Patrick discuss the various types of self-directed IRAs investors with an emphasis on private placement space.  Additionally Rocket Dollar and Entrust have similar programs. Visit http://karenrands.co to learn how we help investors get started angel investing and help to reduce their risk of investing in a bad deal-- likely to not scale to the sought after ROI or worse, completely bomb.

Failures are common in business and investing.  "Failures" are lessons we learn from so we can be better, smarter, stronger... my guest today Rod Khleif calls them "SEMINARS".  The seminars of life to learn from. Some people are able to learn from those experiences and others seem to carry them around like a ball and chain, struggling to be free of the fear that those failures will happen again. In this episode of the Compassionate Capitalist Show, Rod shares the means and methods he used to overcome the devastating loss of his business, to rebuid bigger and better. It requires Focus, Goal Setting, and Mindset. Those three things seem obvious and part of any Success Strategy. Listen to hear the 'more' and how you can use your pain from failure to fuel your trajectory toward new positive outcomes with the psychology to win and overcome any fear you have in making angel investments, real estate investments, or investing time and money in starting a business.  Rod Khlief joins us today to explain how he used these same methods to master the mindset required to recover from losing $50mm his real estate empire in the crash of 2008 to the success he enjoys today. Rod has owned and managed more than 2000 multifamily properties and hosts a top podcast,  Lifetime Cashflow through Real Estate Investing. Rod spends much of his time sharing his knowledge and systems for investing in real estate. To get his free Investment Toolbook text "Rod Live" to x72345 You'll also get an exclusive invitation to his next virtual seminar.  To learn more about Rod, visit http://Rodkhleif.com Karen Rands is a sought after adviser to investors getting started in angel investing and crowd funding investing, offering her proven process to identify the red flags that will cause a business to fail to scale and exit.   Learn more at http://karenrands.co

Kate Kordsmeier shares her tips, tactics, and insights into generating revenue from a blog -- as the primary business or as a lead generating machine. "Blogs" have been around so long, that 'bloggers' aren't cool like 'micro-influencers' these days. Yet, as Kate Kordsmeier discusses with Karen Rands on this episode of the Compassionate Capitalist Show, blogs are so much more than the daily journal, or weekly article most associated with term 'blog'. Blogs are websites and all websites should have a blog (even if it isn't called a blog). Blogs connect people to your company's purpose, product, and people... all the things that establish trust and value. When done right, blogs can become a direct source of revenue and lead magnet---particularly when you learn how to integrate an 'evergreen funnel' into your blog's conversion process. Listen to learn why and how. Kate Kordsmeier (http://katekordsmeier.com) became a fulltime 'blogger', leading to multiple 6 figure revenue streams, when a personal health and family challenge gave her the passion and purpose to leave her reputable and prosperous full-time, freelance journaling career. She now shares her experience and knowledge through training and coaching for entrepreneurs and businesses seeking to use blogs as a revenue stream. Karen Rands, leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement, author of the Best Seller: Inside Secrets to Angel Investing; is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich. Visit http://KarenRands.co to learn why entrepreneurs and investors hire her firm to help them create wealth, not losses from investing in and starting & growing entrepreneurial businesses. Available as VLOG Video: https://youtu.be/W3IOK2ZwyWQ

Time is precious. No matter how much money you make, you can't buy more time. Once it passes, it is no longer a resource to be tapped to enjoy leisure, get work done, or spend with loved ones. Everything revolves around the concept of time. Why is a workweek 40 hours and normal work days are Mon-Fri and so many 'working for the weekend'?  Side-hustle aside, why do we have laud entrepreneurs' "hustle culture" mentality in which working 70 - 80 hours to get the job done on your business is considered a strength not a weakness?   Listen to Karen Rands and Joe Sanok, author of the breakthrough book, "Thursday is the New Friday: How to work fewer hours, make more money, and spend time doing what you want." We discuss the WHY & the HOW TO laid out in the book, and how Joe coaches entrepreneurs to master their internal inclinations and work style to create a four-day work week that boosts innovation, results, and personal well being. Learn the tactics the most successful entrepreneurs have incorporated to unlock creativity & productivity by working smarter (not harder) and limiting the time spent on things that don’t matter or can be done by someone else. Joe is also the host of the popular The Practice of the Practice Podcast, which is recognized as one of the Top 50 Podcasts worldwide with over 100,000 downloads each month. As a sought after advisor, Joe increases executives' and business owners' productivity to build balance and improve their mental and physical well being. More info at http://joesanok.com Karen Rands, leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement and author of the Best Seller, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich. Visit http://KarenRands.co

Karen Rands shares the 'inside secret' to her business venture review process.   For over a decade she used this proprietary method for assessing the risk of investing in startup and early stage entrepreneur business opportunities for the angel investors in her angel investor group, Network of Business & Angel Investors.    Using this approach, Karen's team creates a report to share their findings and insights with a recommendation for a Red, Yellow, Green Light for moving forward.  Companies earning Red or Yellow reports also recieve recommendations on what to fix and modify.   Karen reviews and explains the key elements of the summary report created from interviewing the Founder and reviewing the company business plan, exec summary, pitch deck, financial forecast and offering terms.  Key categories of the report and explained here are:  Overall packaging and presentation of information Accuracy & Currency Target Market & Market Positioning Unique Selling Proposition Competition & Barrier to Entry Traction Management & Advisory Board Investment Structure and ROI Conclusion (Red, Yellow, Green light for moving forward) New angel investors learn the importance of considering these aspects of a business venture when they purchase Karen's best selling primer, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, actually read the book, apply the steps at the end of each chapter, and join the National Network of Angels Investors and gain access to the investor resource portal.   To get the book:  http://InsideSecretstoAngelInvesting.com To learn more about the success stories and services Kugarand Capital Holdings offers to entrepreneurs and investors, visit http://karenrands.co

Florida's Commissioner and the Office of Financial Regulation (OFR), Russell Weigel, III, joins Karen Rands to talk about the challenges to access to capital for Florida businesses from private investors that has created barriers rather than making it easier to raise capital through crowdfunding in Florida. In many ways, Florida has a vibrant angel investor community and a growing presence of venture capitalists expanding into Florida to invest in high tech startups. Florida's SCORE - Small Company Registration program is under review and Commissioner Weigel and OFR are seeking feedback for a legislative initiative to modify SCORE with the goal is to promote Florida’s economy through the creation of a self-sustaining, in-state capital market where many newly formed businesses can obtain seed or expansion capital. Commissioner Weigel is an AV-rated securities attorney, with more than 30 years of legal experience including experience as an enforcement attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a published author. To provide comment and input for consideration, please visit: http://BusinessAccelerationNetwork.com/Florida Karen Rands is a top podcaster and speaker focused on creating wealth through building and investing in successful entrepreneur endeavors.  She wrote the best selling primer for Angel Investors:  Inside Secrets to Angel Investing. She works with Angel Investors and Family Offices to assist them vetting deals to save them time by identifying the red flags that will limit the prospective company's success and money reducing the risk of their investments. To learn more about the programs and services that Karen and her team offer to entrepreneurs and investors, visit http://karenrands.co Please help spread the word about Compassionate Capitalism by subscribing & sharing this video and/or the podcast

Whether you call it a self-fulfilling prophecy or expectancy effect, your internal view of yourself doesn’t let you exceed your "deserve" level – we get in life what we (subconsciously) believe we deserve. Henry Ford described it aptly, “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right.”  Ed Bohlke, Creator of Deserve Level Coaching, joins Karen on this episode to talk about the hidden barriers, their source and process to break down those barriers that entrepreneurs and executives experience in pursuit of their dream that can cause their business to plateau and derail. This is important for investors to also understand because it can impact their return on the investment in that company. Ed Bohlke (edbohlke.com DeserveLevel.com) had direct experience in creating success as CEO of Serious IP, Inc, with an IP portfolio of over 140 patents in 60 countries with $25M guaranteed license revenues, raising 35M in financing along the way.  Ed has been perfecting the idea of 'Deserve Level' as he applied it in his own life and now coaches CEOs and Key Executives to help them achieve the success they anticipate. Karen Rands, the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement, and author of the Best Seller, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing.  She uses her 20+ years experience from working with entrepreneurs and investors to help investors identify the red flags in deal that will cause the company to fail, so they reduce their risk and stop wasting time on deals that won't scale.  To learn more about the programs and services that Karen and her team offer to entrepreneurs and investors, visit http://karenrands.co  Please help spread the word about Compassionate Capitalism by subscribing & sharing this video and/or the podcast