The Compassionate Capitalist™ Show for Crowdfund and Angel Investors

Neeti Dewan joins Karen Rands on the Compassionate Capitalist Show to talk about leadership impact on the financial bottom line of business. 

We are familiar with these 5 styles of leadership:
Authoritarian | Participative | Delegative | Transactional | Transformational

Neeti introduces the impact of Joyful Leadership on employee retention and productivity and developing your Power of Silence as an effective leadership tool. Neeti Dewan is an Author, Key Note Speaker, Global Finance & Tax Leader, and Seasoned Board Director. She is a  Founding Member of the Atlanta Chapter of the Private Directors Association and currently is the Global Tax Leader for ClubCar.  Neeti has been the recipient of numerous awards, and most recently named "The Most Successful Businesswomen to watch, 2021" with a feature in the magazine, CIO Views. Neeti's latest book, as discussed in this podcast is:  “High Level Leadership, Low Level Stress”. Learn more and get in touch visit: www.neetidewan.com

Karen Rands, is the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement™ and author of the best selling financial investment primer: Inside Secrets to Angel Investing:  Step-by-Step Strategies to Leverage Private Equity Investment for Passive Wealth Creation.
Did you know that the 'idea of' and the 'how to' create wealth as accredited angel investors by investing in entrepreneurs and owning a piece of multiple private companies was a secret for non-millionaires for over 90 years.  Karen is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich.   This podcast is the infomercial for the idea of angel / crowdfund investors as Compassionate Capitalists. 
The Compassionate Capitalist Wealth Maximizer System is now available for those investors that want to learn how to invest in entrepreneurs as an asset class like real estate or the stock market. Visit http://Kugarand.com to get your free gift: 12 Inside Secrets to Innovation and Wealth and join the email wait list for the next Free Intro - Wealth Mastery Immersion Challenge 
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Compassionate Capitalist Show is about wealth creation - 1st as a successful entrepreneur; 2nd as an investor in a successful entrepreneur.  Real estate investing has many parallels to angel investing into entrepreneurs. They can often interchange to be the starting point for creating additional wealth for investing in the other asset class. There is an ongoing debate as to which is riskier; which requires more capital to get started and have available to maintain the asset; and even which produces the greatest average return.

In this episode of The Compassionate Capitalist Show, listeners will learn about a way to create wealth that when done correctly, to create wealth and do social good, also sets the stage for extra cashflow to be put toward investing in entrepreneurs as a crowdfunding investor or angel investor.  Martin Saenz joins Karen Rands to talk about Mortgage Notes investing as a niche investment strategy that offers the hybrid of 'investor as a bank' and real estate backed security.

 Martin Saenz co-founded Bequest Funds with the dual purpose of helping investors grow their wealth and helping mortgage borrowers stay in their homes. Bequest Funds manages reliable high-yield opportunities for accredited investors. Their diversified portfolio of re-performing residential mortgage notes with impressive predictable returns. Martin is also the author of the primer: Note Investing Made Easier. https://www.bqfunds.com/

Watch this episode on youtube: https://youtu.be/aAIGv_Oz3dQ

Karen Rands, is the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement™ and author of the best selling financial investment primer: Inside Secrets to Angel Investing:  Step-by-Step Strategies to Leverage Private Equity Investment for Passive Wealth Creation.
Did you know that the 'idea of' and the 'how to' create wealth as accredited angel investors by investing in entrepreneurs and owning a piece of multiple private companies was a secret for non-millionaires for over 90 years.  Karen is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich.   This podcast is the infomercial for the idea of angel / crowdfund investors as Compassionate Capitalists. 
The Compassionate Capitalist Wealth Maximizer System is now available for those investors that want to learn how to invest in entrepreneurs as an asset class like real estate or the stock market. Visit http://Kugarand.com to get your free gift: 12 Inside Secrets to Innovation and Wealth and join the email wait list for the next Free Intro - Wealth Mastery Immersion Challenge 
Already investing? Learn how to hire Kugarand Capital Holdings to identify the red flags of deal before you invest, or find out hwo to help syndicate your capital raise. 

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Entrepreneur Founders, Angel Investors, and VCs all want to maximize their Return on Investment, their realized gain, when it looks like there is potential for an IPO with the company. It is hard to predict which startups will navigate the treacherous journey from start to finish of an IPO when the race isn't a sprint, it can have many twists and turns and obstacles to over come, to reach the pinnacle of an IPO rather than acquisition or merger. Many of the ways to avoid taxes on capital gains and even 'phantom earnings' need to be dealt with at the start of the incentive or in the early days of the company starting up, not in the final stretch to an IPO.

Host Karen Rands is joined by Aaron Rubin, JD, CPA, CFP, partner with Werba Rubin Papier Wealth Management, LLC and author of "Financial Adulting", a guide for young professionals navigate tax, investing and estate planning. Aaron works with pre-IPO executives and early employees at late-state tech companies to help them minimize their tax liability and keep more of their equity compensation. He is known in tech circles from Austin to Silicon Valley as the PreIPO 'Stock Option Whisperer'. www.wrpwealth.com

What you will learn:

• Worse, yet easiest IPO tax mistake to avoid
• Alternative Mininum Tax laws changes
• Benefit of "Qualified Small Business Stock"
• Pre-Purchase 83B Early Election Option to avoid GIANT Tax Bill on IPO Stock Gain

Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/1jmEaVhwAEw

Karen Rands, is the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement™ and author of the best selling financial investment primer: Inside Secrets to Angel Investing:  Step-by-Step Strategies to Leverage Private Equity Investment for Passive Wealth Creation.
Did you know that the 'idea of' and the 'how to' create wealth as accredited angel investors by investing in entrepreneurs and owning a piece of multiple private companies was a secret for non-millionaires for over 90 years.  Karen is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich.   This podcast is the infomercial for the idea of angel / crowdfund investors as Compassionate Capitalists. 
The Compassionate Capitalist Wealth Maximizer System is now available for those investors that want to learn how to invest in entrepreneurs as an asset class like real estate or the stock market. Visit http://Kugarand.com to get your free gift: 12 Inside Secrets to Innovation and Wealth and join the email wait list for the next Free Intro - Wealth Mastery Immersion Challenge 
Already investing? Learn how to hire Kugarand Capital Holdings to identify the red flags of deal before you invest, or find out hwo to help syndicate your capital raise. 

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Just 1.2% of the record $137 billion invested in US startups in the first half of 2021 went to Black entrepreneurs, and only 2% went to women-founded companies, according to a blog post from Crunchbase. If you aren't familiar with the challenges non-white, non-male founders of startups face getting capital in the United States, these numbers are actually better than they have been in the past. There was a great wakeup call in 2020 to the barriers to capital diverse founders face.

Zane Ventures is not new to the party, but they are using this new found corporate and traditional investor consciousnes and awareness momentum to be a disrupter in the capital market place. Through their long-standing Zane Access program they have mentored 1200 startups with diverse founders.  With the launch of their venture fund they are able to invest in bold founders who have innovative business models and are building early-stage technology solutions with early traction, whether in dollars or data.

Shila Nieves Burney is the Founding & Managing Partner of Zane Venture Fund.  Zane mentors and invests EARLY, reducing barriers for diverse founders to reveal their talents and reshape our communities. With the participation of Sig Moseley, considered a preeminent angel investor in the Southeast, and notable African-American successful entrepreneurs, Tope Awotona Zane of Calendly, George Azih of LeaseQuery, and Sjegun Otulana of Harmony Venture Labs, Zane is on their way to be a true catalyst for change for diverse founders in the Southeast Capital Community. Visit: www.zane.vc

 WATCH the Video of this episode: https://youtu.be/w_NTQfTxVYc

Karen Rands, is the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement™ and author of the best selling financial investment primer: Inside Secrets to Angel Investing:  Step-by-Step Strategies to Leverage Private Equity Investment for Passive Wealth Creation.
Did you know that the 'idea of' and the 'how to' create wealth as accredited angel investors by investing in entrepreneurs and owning a piece of multiple private companies was a secret for non-millionaires for over 90 years.  Karen is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich.   This podcast is the infomercial for the idea of angel / crowdfund investors as Compassionate Capitalists. 
The Compassionate Capitalist Wealth Maximizer System is now available for those investors that want to learn how to invest in entrepreneurs as an asset class like real estate or the stock market. Visit http://Kugarand.com to get your free gift: 12 Inside Secrets to Innovation and Wealth and join the email wait list for the next Free Intro - Wealth Mastery Immersion Challenge 
Already investing? Learn how to hire Kugarand Capital Holdings to identify the red flags of deal before you invest, or find out hwo to help syndicate your capital raise. 

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Did you know? 44% of the American workforce makes less than $20 an hour and are living paycheck to paycheck. Much of that hourly wage employee sector is considered essential workforce to keep our economy humming, as evident in the pandemic triggered shut down and in the current supply chain crisis.

For this Compassionate Capitalist Show, Karen Rands is joined by Sabina Bhatia, Chief Customer Officer at PayActiv, to talk about the impact 'financial insecurity and well being' of hourly wage workers have on the profitability and scalability of businesses.
Earned Wage Access is rapidly becoming the #1 way for companies to attract and retain their non-salary employees. Understanding HOW high turnover and job vacancies, and how distracted and anxious employees effect quality control and customer experience, is critical for both founders and investors. The soft dollar impact on the financial performance of a company and stagnation of a company to reach their growth targets directly correlates to the ROI of an investment.

With great passion and focus, Sabina Bhatia has been instrumental in building the financial category of Earned Wage Access from infancy to mainstream adoption as the most important employee wellness benefit of 2022. As a Chief Customer Officer at Payactiv, she acts as a daily advocate and amplifier for the needs of thousands of corporate clients and millions of lower-income workers. More info at http://payactiv.com

Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/03AYl5lLARs

Karen Rands, is the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement™ and author of the best selling financial investment primer: Inside Secrets to Angel Investing:  Step-by-Step Strategies to Leverage Private Equity Investment for Passive Wealth Creation.
Did you know that the 'idea of' and the 'how to' create wealth as accredited angel investors by investing in entrepreneurs and owning a piece of multiple private companies was a secret for non-millionaires for over 90 years.  Karen is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich.   This podcast is the infomercial for the idea of angel / crowdfund investors as Compassionate Capitalists. 
The Compassionate Capitalist Wealth Maximizer System is now available for those investors that want to learn how to invest in entrepreneurs as an asset class like real estate or the stock market. Visit http://Kugarand.com to get your free gift: 12 Inside Secrets to Innovation and Wealth and join the email wait list for the next Free Intro - Wealth Mastery Immersion Challenge 
Already investing? Learn how to hire Kugarand Capital Holdings to identify the red flags of deal before you invest, or find out hwo to help syndicate your capital raise. 

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Siena Dexter joins Karen Rands on The Compassionate Capitalist Show(tm) to talk about the data science of connecting with consumers to choose your brand, your product over a competitor.    How do you create brand loyalty?   How do you garner interest in a new product or brand so that your target consumer knows what the value is in just 3 seconds?  Siena calls it the 3 Second Decision. 
Listen and learn how the BIGGEST names in Consumer Packaged Goods use behavioral economics to trigger the consumers' consciousness logic, and subconscious emotion all at once to make a buying decision and how that turns into brand loyalty.  Siena and Karen dig into the market adoption of meat alternatives and the evolution of the 'women' personal care market. 

Siena is the Director of Brand Strategy and Associate Partner at  Smashbrand, where she helps Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands win on shelf through quantified consumer metrics.  Siena’s educational and professional journey brought her to Smashbrand where her main interest is in Behavioral Economics and her passion is identifying quantifiable ways to predict human behavior.  Smashbrand does this very well.  http://smashbrand.com

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Karen Rands, is the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement™ and author of the best selling financial investment primer: Inside Secrets to Angel Investing:  Step-by-Step Strategies to Leverage Private Equity Investment for Passive Wealth Creation.
Did you know that the 'idea of' and the 'how to' create wealth as accredited angel investors by investing in entrepreneurs and owning a piece of multiple private companies was a secret for non-millionaires for over 90 years.  Karen is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich.   This podcast is the infomercial for the idea of angel / crowdfund investors as Compassionate Capitalists. 
The Compassionate Capitalist Wealth Maximizer System is now available for those investors that want to learn how to invest in entrepreneurs as an asset class like real estate or the stock market. Visit http://Kugarand.com to get your free gift: 12 Inside Secrets to Innovation and Wealth and join the email wait list for the next Free Intro - Wealth Mastery Immersion Challenge 
Already investing? Learn how to hire Kugarand Capital Holdings to identify the red flags of deal before you invest, or find out hwo to help syndicate your capital raise. 

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Renata Marino joins Karen Rands on the Compassionate Capitalist Show to discuss her unique perspective as a Latina navigating the challenges of startups raising capital, bringing products to market, raising capital, and finally becoming an angel investor herself. 

Key discussion points are: 

• Expectations that Women, and specifically brown and black women, face and the challenges they routinely must over come to break into the board room and into venture capital.
• Why is it that more women haven't made that same crossover to angel investing and even in the VC realm? 
• What are some of the best practices for female founders to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams, and specifically to raise capital?

Renata Merino's professional experience with innovation in sports tech product development gave her a passion for entrepreneurism, launching 3 startups and serving as CMO in the 4th.  This success led her to the world of venture as an angel investor and currently serving as a Venture Investment Scout for Going VC Partners. She is the Founder, Chairman for Blazin Babes, a women's professional network group, and an active member of the Chicago tech/startup community.

Episode Also available as video: https://youtu.be/eZxss-RUJrk

Karen Rands, is the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement™ and author of the best selling financial investment primer: Inside Secrets to Angel Investing:  Step-by-Step Strategies to Leverage Private Equity Investment for Passive Wealth Creation.
Did you know that the 'idea of' and the 'how to' create wealth as accredited angel investors by investing in entrepreneurs and owning a piece of multiple private companies was a secret for non-millionaires for over 90 years.  Karen is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich.   This podcast is the infomercial for the idea of angel / crowdfund investors as Compassionate Capitalists. 
The Compassionate Capitalist Wealth Maximizer System is now available for those investors that want to learn how to invest in entrepreneurs as an asset class like real estate or the stock market. Visit http://Kugarand.com to get your free gift: 12 Inside Secrets to Innovation and Wealth and join the email wait list for the next Free Intro - Wealth Mastery Immersion Challenge 
Already investing? Learn how to hire Kugarand Capital Holdings to identify the red flags of deal before you invest, or find out hwo to help syndicate your capital raise. 

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Karl Maier, Founder of Abunden, joins Karen Rands to talk about how his Abunden Management Toolkit system helps his clients double their sales.  Karen jokes at the start of this show -- that this info is the INSIDE Secret business owners and investors are looking for to actually 20x their sales so they can sell their company and exit for big returns on investment for both the founders and all the investors.  

The joke is that it isn't a secret at all.  People + Processes = Profit. 

Watch and Listen how Karl's integrated approach helps founders identify roadblocks to their ability to scale and anticipate the bottle necks and obstacles to their financial success. 

Karl Maier founded Abunden to help companies to build their management operating systems so they can double their company within three years.  Growing up in a family owned business, followed by 3 decades in corporate gigs and as a consultant, Karl has worked in a wide range of roles including systems and processes, sales and business development, finance and accounting, as well as mergers and acquisitions. For more information: https://abunden.com

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Karen Rands, is the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement™ and author of the best selling financial investment primer: Inside Secrets to Angel Investing:  Step-by-Step Strategies to Leverage Private Equity Investment for Passive Wealth Creation.
Did you know that the 'idea of' and the 'how to' create wealth as accredited angel investors by investing in entrepreneurs and owning a piece of multiple private companies was a secret for non-millionaires for over 90 years.  Karen is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich.   This podcast is the infomercial for the idea of angel / crowdfund investors as Compassionate Capitalists. 
The Compassionate Capitalist Wealth Maximizer System is now available for those investors that want to learn how to invest in entrepreneurs as an asset class like real estate or the stock market. Visit http://Kugarand.com to get your free gift: 12 Inside Secrets to Innovation and Wealth and join the email wait list for the next Free Intro - Wealth Mastery Immersion Challenge 
Already investing? Learn how to hire Kugarand Capital Holdings to identify the red flags of deal before you invest, or find out hwo to help syndicate your capital raise. 

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Karen Rands the Compassionate Capitalist and Heather Havenwood, the Sexy Boss and Internet Influencer, talk about the evolution and revolution of NFTs.  Blockchain will transform business in the future the way the Internet revolutionized EVERYTHING starting in the 90s.  

NFT or Non-Fungible Tokens are the key element of that.  NFTs, and how they protect the digital rights and identity of the item, on the blockchain, is so much more than a cartoon of monkey or whatever other crazy thing you have heard about.

Karen and Heather cover the basics of blockchain and compare NFT to crypto currency and other blockchain applications and discuss the impact they predict it will have on business from Supply Chain to Master Mind Coaching Memberships.

Heather Havenwood is a Influencer and Celebrity Entrepreneur who is on a mission to help 10,000 women to start and thrive running their own online business, to create independence and financial freedom in their lives. Heather Ann Havenwood is the Author of Best Selling Sexy Boss,  Creator of the Influencer Tribe™,  and UnCage™ Your Influence Podcast.  She is the proud recipient of the Stevie® Award Winner 'Most Innovative Woman of the Year 2020'

Karen Rands, is the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement™ and author of the best selling financial investment primer: Inside Secrets to Angel Investing:  Step-by-Step Strategies to Leverage Private Equity Investment for Passive Wealth Creation.
Did you know that the 'idea of' and the 'how to' create wealth as accredited angel investors by investing in entrepreneurs and owning a piece of multiple private companies was a secret for non-millionaires for over 90 years.  Karen is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich.   This podcast is the infomercial for the idea of angel / crowdfund investors as Compassionate Capitalists. 
The Compassionate Capitalist Wealth Maximizer System is now available for those investors that want to learn how to invest in entrepreneurs as an asset class like real estate or the stock market. Visit http://Kugarand.com to get your free gift: 12 Inside Secrets to Innovation and Wealth and join the email wait list for the next Free Intro - Wealth Mastery Immersion Challenge 
Already investing? Learn how to hire Kugarand Capital Holdings to identify the red flags of deal before you invest, or find out hwo to help syndicate your capital raise. 

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There are documents that Founders and Investors need to make sure a company has in place to protect the business when critical disrupters occur. Similar to a will before you die, a business can't wait until a founder is disabled, dead, or divorced to implement these business contingency agreements.

Paul Hood joins Karen Rands to talk about the events business owners and investors should anticipate and the agreements that act as insurance policies to protect the interest of the organization's stakeholders.  Paul takes the conversation a level deeper with real life examples of problems avoided and problems solved when you understand the kinds of precautions and assurance of sustainability certain agreements bring.

Paul Hood considers himself a “recovering tax lawyer” with his JD from Louisiana State University and LL.M. in taxation from Georgetown University Law Center. Now, Paul helps people build a plan with a solid legal foundation to protect their estate and their biggest asset - Their Business.  Paul is a highly sought-after speaker and consultant having authored or co-authored nine books and over 500 professional articles on estate, charitable and tax planning and business valuation.  Paul authored the highly regarded "Buy-Sell Agreements" and "Yours, Mine & Ours: Estate Planning for People in Blended or Step Families".   To learn more:  www.paulhoodservices.com

Watch this episode on Video https://youtu.be/tv_u4xwuGuE

Karen Rands, is the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement™ and author of the best selling financial investment primer: Inside Secrets to Angel Investing:  Step-by-Step Strategies to Leverage Private Equity Investment for Passive Wealth Creation.
Did you know that the 'idea of' and the 'how to' create wealth as accredited angel investors by investing in entrepreneurs and owning a piece of multiple private companies was a secret for non-millionaires for over 90 years.  Karen is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich.   This podcast is the infomercial for the idea of angel / crowdfund investors as Compassionate Capitalists. 
The Compassionate Capitalist Wealth Maximizer System is now available for those investors that want to learn how to invest in entrepreneurs as an asset class like real estate or the stock market. Visit http://Kugarand.com to get your free gift: 12 Inside Secrets to Innovation and Wealth and join the email wait list for the next Free Intro - Wealth Mastery Immersion Challenge 
Already investing? Learn how to hire Kugarand Capital Holdings to identify the red flags of deal before you invest, or find out hwo to help syndicate your capital raise. 

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