The Compassionate Capitalist™ Show for Crowdfund and Angel Investors

Sarry Ibrahim joins Karen Rands on this segment of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast Radio Show to help listeners understand how to pursue a purposeful investment strategy that minimizes risk and maximize the value of your portfolio to meet your evolving financial needs.  Sarry will share how one particular misunderstod financial management and investment tool could enable private investors and business owners to 'bank on themselves'.

After getting his insurance licenses and working in the traditional insurance agency, Sarry Ibrahim’s saw an opportunity to exploit the unique framework of this one investment vehicle and founded the Financial Assett Protection program, a member of the Bank on Yourself Organization. FIN Asset Protection is a business that helps high net worth individuals, real estate investors, business owners and retirees grow and protect their wealth predictably and safely.  For more information about Financial Asset Protection, visit  https://finassetprotection.com/

Karen Rands educates and advises entrepreneurs and investors about methods and means to achieve generational wealth through funded innovation and successful launch and growth of businesses.  She wrote the best seller, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, Step-by-Step Strategies to Leverage Private Equity Investment for Passive Wealth Creation as an educational tool to help investors of all types to learn how to invest in private equity and build a portfolio of minority positions in multiple entrepreneur endeavors as an asset class equal to real estate investment.  This is the cornerstone of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement.  To learn more, please visit https://www.karenrands.co/angel-investing-book/

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Renata Marino joins Karen Rands on the Compassionate Capitalist Show to discuss the expectations women, particularly women of color, face and the challenges they overcome to break glass ceilings from corporate to getting funding as a female founder, and even when they move to the other side of the table as investors.   Karen and Renata discuss why is it that more women haven't made that same crossover to angel investing and even in the VC realm?   They also talk about best practices for female founders to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams, and specifically to raise capital from their own experiences. 

Renata Merino is a 20 year operator, x-investment banker, Chicago Booth MBA merit based scholar, Latina serial entrepreneur turned investor and venture capitalist.  As a female and Hispanic and one who has faced the roadblocks in raising capital, her mission is to be the "access to capital" for female and minority founders.  As a 20 year operator and serial entrepreneur, Renata brings firsthand knowledge and experience from both Fortune 500 and the startup world on how to build a business, product or service from an idea. Her passion lies in helping founders scale, while her analytical and strategic forte and network reputation is about delivering on a promise by returning the fund.

Karen Rands has been building bridges between entrepreneurs and investors for over 20 years, coaching many entrepreneurs on growth strategies and providing access to capital.   Her best seller, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, is a primer for investors to learn how to harness the wealth potential of entrepreneurism without all the risk.  Learn more at http://karenrands.co  Get her book on Amazon:  http://bit.ly/AngelInsideSecrets and access to her investor resource portal

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Compassionate Capitalist episodes about Business Success Strategies have covered sales topics such as building a sales team; philosophy of selling; and integrating the sales model into the corporate culture. Today Karen Rands is joined by David Ledgewood - "Ledge" - to talk about the challenges Founders face when they must transition from 'Founder led sales" processes to sales strategy that will scale for unimpeded sales growth. It has become common place for businesses to outsource customer service, inbound sales management, customer support and application development.  Listen to hear how the team at ADD 1 Zero is pioneering the art and science behind outsourcing sales to help Founders face the challenge of implementing scalable sales teams and systems. 

Ledge is the Managing Partner at Add1Zero where his team provides lead-to-close sales execution for B2B tech companies ready to leap from 6 to 7 digits of revenue.  From Corporate Services at PwC, Ledge moved into sales, working with corporate and startups, Ledge has closed over $35M, with an average deal size in excess of $150,000. He has deep-rooted expertise in selling software and services, and has helped several companies grow into the mid-7 figures.Visit https://add1zero.co/  to learn more.

Karen Rands is the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement to fund more innovation, create jobs, and create wealth for entrepreneurs and their investors. She wrote the best selling book on startup investor led finance - Inside Secrets to Angel Investing. To learn more, get her book and sign up for her email video tips, visit http://karenrands.co 

Subscribe to the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast on top players, with over 140,000 downloads and 200 episodes, it is a leading business and finance podcast.  Available on Youtube: https://youtu.be/FufOCd6LnMI

A business brand is more than a logo or slogan, it is the full corporate culture of how they conduct business with their customers and partners, and their role in the community.  Robert Manasier joins Karen Rands to discuss the difference and the dispel confusion over a business 'brand'.  

Key take aways:

Don't raise money until you have customers.

Branding is internal and external....communication, engaging the community of stake holders and customers. 

Building a brand involves creating and building strategies, business execution plans and teams that get your business goals DONE.

Robert Manasier has decades of international commercialization leadership and now serves as the Entrepreneur in Residence to the regional ecosystem of the Capital District of NY to assist the maturing of the startup and entrepreneurial companies in the affiliate partners.   He works with Innovate 518,  NY's Innovation Hot Spot, and Ignite U as an accelerator and mentors at FasterCapital is a virtual incubator based in Dubai Internet City. 

More Info at: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertmanasier/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/in-focus-brands/

Karen Rands works with entrepreneurs that are 'stuck', due to lack of capital and operational systems that limit growth and customer acquisition.  She is the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investor, a primer for those seeking to create wealth by investing in entrepreneurs and funding innovation.  She is the founder of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement.  Karen managers the Launch Funding Network and the National Network of Angel Investors.   Visit http://karenrands.co to learn more and to subscribe to here Compassionate Capitalist Coffee Break that is a weekly series of short video tips.

Cameron MacPherson has a Big Idea he is calling The Next Giant Leap.  MacPherson's publication of The Next Giant Leap offers open-source blueprints for communities to implement systems that can solve resource scarcity, reduce climate change and contribute to a growing thriving economy.  With every product, there is a by-product.  With every action, there is a reaction.  The Next Giant Leap systems interlink and interact so that those by-products and reactions are used to solve another problem or produce another resource for the betterment of the community and HumanKind. 

Cameron and Karen explore these ideas and the concept of "collective capitalism" extensively on this episode of the Compassionate Capitalism Show, yet still only hit the highlights.   To learn more and get your own copy of The Next Giant Leap manifesto, visit: http://nextgiantleap.org

We are seeking to shift a mindset from make, take, use, dispose TO make, take, use, reuse, recycle--- to minimize waste as we repurpose it to create abundance for humankind.  The Next Giant Leap can make the Green New Deal viable.

Cameron MacPherson is a technologist and futurist who is passionate about social advancement. An enterprise systems analyst and software developer by trade, he leveraged his academic background in political science with his engineering perspective to create a new model: Collective Capitalism

Karen Rands is visionary and passion behind the Compassionate Capitalist Movement.   To learn more about how Karen helps entrepreneurs and investors in their quest for wealth, please visit http://karenrands.co and sign up for her Compassionate Capitalist Coffee Breaks and get a copy of her best seller primer for angel investors:  Inside Secrets to Angel Investing.

Listen in as Karen Rands and Lauren Kane of VC Worthy Business discuss the changing landscape bringing more Female Founders and Investors to the table for wealth creation through successful entrepreneurship.  Women  traditionally have not had a seat at the proverbial table to attract angel and VC investment.  That is rapidly changing, which is also leading to women becoming active in the capital community investing in startups and early stage companies.

In this episode Compassionate Capitalist Show you will hear how to approach raising capital and becoming VC ready from a place of power and   recommendation, best practices for preparing the pitch to make it your own.

Lauren Kane, founded her firm VC Worthy Business specifically to work with Female Entrepreneurs across the country who are at a critical point in their business' growth and are seeking capital to accelerate momentum in their business and need help.  Prior to starting VC Worthy Business, Lauren worked with Golden Seeds, the renowned national female angel investor network,  as their Director of Operations and worked in the private sector in operations at companies involved analytics and business advisory.

To learn more and connect with Lauren, visit https://www.vcworthybusiness.com/

Karen Rands is the founder of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement and the best selling author of the investor primer : Inside Secrets to Angel Investing.  Visit http://InsideSecretstoAngelInvesting.com to get a free excerpt of 12 of the 46 secrets and buy the book.  Karen offers advisory services to entrepreneurs and investors seeking to create wealth through funded innovation.  Learn more at http://karenrands.co

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Karen Rands is joined by Scot Chrisman, former world class professional skier, #1 Sports Podcast host and now a top digital marketing expert, on this segment of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast to talk about how entrepreneurs can use the Internet as a tool to explode SALES.  Using the Internet effectively in marketing to attract and convert customers is more than just SEO - Search Engine Optimization in a world of "Hey Google".

With 4 Billion people (continuing growing) using the Internet for entertainment, commerce, and as a tool of convenience, the opportunity is big, but the noise and competition for attention is even greater than ever.   Listen and learn how to stand out, be found by your prospects, and convert them into customers.  This is critical insight that every entrepreneur, CEO, and investor needs to understand.

You can learn more about the services Scot offers through his firm The Media House - https://themediahouse.co/ and pick up your free copy of the  5 DIGITAL MARKETING TOOLS THAT CREATE STRONGER CONVERSIONS.

To learn more about how Karen Rands helps entrepreneurs gain access to capital through The Launch Funding Network, and investors evaluate and syndicate on investment opportunities, please visit http://karenrands.co  Click on Resources to get the 12 Top Inside Secrets from the 44 found in her best seller Inside Secrets to Angel Investing. Click on Blog for full podcast library.

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Karen Rands is joined by Angela Lee, Founder of 37 Angels to talk about learning to be an angel investor and growing the community of women angel investors.   Angela shares her journey to becoming an angel investor, the passion and purpose behind starting 37 Angels 8 years ago, and the 4 Ps of evaluating a startup investment deal.    

37 Angels has been successful with 75 portfolio companies in part because of their focus on educating investors with their BootCamp to give the the knowledge and tools to feel comfortable with making angle investments -  To "Shine a light into the black box of Angel investing".

Learn More at http://www.37angels.com/

Angela Lee is currently the Professor of Practice - VC/Leadership & Strategy at Columbia Business School, having previously served as Chief Innovation Officer in executive roles.  Within that expertise, since 2010 she has been a called upon speaker and trainer on the topics of innovation, inclusion and investing at NASA, Amazon, BMW, NYSE and even the Whitehouse, just to name a few.

Karen Rands is leading the Compassionate Capitalist Movement and is a catalyst for funding innovation with her best selling finance education book:  Inside Secrets to Angel Investing.   Get more information and connect with Karen at http://karenrands.co 

This video is part of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast with new shows each Tuesday.   Check out all the prior episodes and find your preferred podcast player at http://karenrands.co/blog

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What if there was a way to do what many have unsuccessfully tried and many think impossible: to invest in low- economic neighborhoods, benefit the community and actually make money at the same time?  We are on the threshold, if we do this right, that history will look back on this time as the turning point for an urban renaissance. 

Terrence Gallman, of Gallman Investments joins Karen Rands to discuss the dystopia that exists in many urban communities due to decades of limited investment in resources and virtually no access to capital for real estate development and redevelopment, and commercial businesses.  During their conversation you will hear about the factors that have led to this situation across America and the public / private partnerships being formed with Investors, Foundations, Family Offices, and Economic Development entities to turn the tide, because all can rise when the tide of capital rises to uplift those that have been forsaken and left behind. 

Terrence Gallman is the esteemed author of Wall Street Bonds: The Urban Renaissance, a book about a financial and social revolution that could raise up the people and the GDP at the same time.   To learn more and connect with Terrence, find him on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/theurbanren

Karen Rands is leading the Compassionate Capitalist Movement. She wrote the best selling finance book, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, and is working on her next best seller about how entrepreneurs can get unstuck and scale their companies to a successful exit.   Information about her company's services and to connect with her please visit http://karenrands.co

This episode is also available on youtube: https://youtu.be/H6pZu0QR26M

In this segment of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast/Video Series, Karen Rands talks with John Klymshyn, the Business Generator, about the challenge of building effective and consistent performing sales machine in a company. They explore the difference in Sales Leadership vs Sales Management, and the concept of hiring right, executive delegation, and the importance of retention in your sales force.  You'll also learn why so may Startup founders get stuck because of the mindset they are the only ones that can sell and not delegate to Sales Management, and how to over come it.

John Klymshyn is the author of several industry leading books and audio books, A international Speaker, and Navy Veteran. Mindful Leadership Coach. whose motto is "Your Path to The C Suite is All About The Language!" His company is The Business Generator, Inc where for 21 years he has been providing inspirational management training and coaching for C Suite and Sales teams. Learn more at http://Klymshyn.com -- digital courses and resources

And listen to John's Podcast, YourStartupAdvisor at: https://www.klymshyn.com/podcasts

Karen Rands is the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investing -- top primer for learning how to invest in entrepreneurs and share in the wealth they create when they succeed.  She is a top speaker about economic growth and empowerment through creating successful ecosystems of entrepreneurs and investors.  She leads the Compassionate Capitalist Movement

Learn more at http://karenrands.co Click on Resources tab get her book info and free excerpt of the top 12 of 47 Inside Secrets.

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