The Compassionate Capitalist™ Show for Crowdfund and Angel Investors

One of the biggest challenges the canna industry faces is getting access to traditional commercial financial services.   In this video/podcast you will learn that as with any new industry that is rapidly growing, even one fraught with regulatory hurdles, there are innovators that figure out how to overcome the challenges so that business can move forward.  Peter Su, VP of BNB Bank, joins Karen Rands to talk about the current state of affairs when providing banking services to business operating from seed to sale in the canna industry.  Karen & Peter talk about the clever work arounds for offering non-cash sales transactions and the regulatory bureaucracy banks must deal with when servicing canna business customers.   You won't believe it.   With the MORE Act pending in congress to decriminalize cannabis (Marijuana) at a Federal level, it is interesting to consider not only what problems it will solve, but also the problems it could create.

Peter Su is the Vice President of BNB, a Private Banking firm providing financial services to Cannabis Companies from Seed to Sale.  He is a Certified Treasury Professional and Cannabis Banking Professional. Peter is member of the Banking and Financial Services committee on the National Cannabis Industry Association. https://www.bnbbank.com/

Learn More: https://www.bnbbank.com/news/bnb-bank-offers-banking-services-to-authorized-hemp-firms/

Karen Rands is the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement and the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, the primer for how to get started investing in entrepreneurs.  Learn more at http://karenrands.co 

Also available as a youtube video: https://youtu.be/cUQngwkcOk0

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Karen Rands is joined by Dr. Laquita Blockson, Founding Faculty Director of Social Innovation Graduate Program, Masters in Social Innovation, at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, GA to discuss how Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship works to solve society challenges with business solutions.  

Through this Master of Arts program in Social Innovation, students learn to take business principles and adapt them to solve complex, real-world challenges to create a more socially just world. Students attain the knowledge and skills to become leading social innovators and change-makers within various industries and fields and learn to make informed decisions, influence policy, and affect positive change. Upon graduation, students are prepared to launch a social venture or to secure a management position within for-profit, government, and nonprofit sectors.   As our world is plagued by real problems of poverty, environmental destruction, access to health care, hunger, racial conflict, affordable housing and on, it is encouraging to know leaders are being cultivated to turn innovation and entrepreneurship into economic opportunity to make positive change.

For more information about the program, please visit https://www.agnesscott.edu/graduate-studies/graduate-programs/social-innovation/index.html   You can contact Dr. Blockson through her faculty page on the website.

Karen Rands is leading the Compassionate Capitalist Movement to bring more capital in the market for entrepreneurs to bring innovation to market, create jobs to grow our economy, and create wealth for the founders and investors.   To get her book about angel investing and learn more about services she offers to entrepreneurs and investors, visit http://karenrands.co

Hydroponic and Vertical Farming is a technoligical advancement in agriculture that shows great promise in creating sustainable farming, reducing environmental impact, and improving access to produce in densely populated communities.  

Eddy Badrina is CEO of Eden Green Technology, a vertical farming technology company dedicated to changing the way we farm our food and feed our communities with their regenerative business model.  Eddy joins Karen Rands on this episode of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast to talk about the advancement of this Agro-Tech for economies of scale for making this an affordable and effective method for urban farming.  In one year, a 1.5 acre greenhouse built with Eden Green’s technology (on a roof top or in repurposed empty office and retail locations) can grow 2.7 million heads of leafy greens and harvest 11-13x more times than a traditional farm, while using exponentially less energy and water than a typical greenhouse.

Visit https://www.edengreen.com/ to learn more about the technology and the company mission to help the world grow produce locally to end food insecurity and regional food dependence, and more how their regenerative business model is profitable and offers community impact sufficient to sustain charitable contribution of 10% of the product for non-profits in the community. 

Karen Rands is the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement, dedicating to bringing more resources, capital, and accessibility to entrpreneur endeavors to bring innovation to the market, create jobs, and wealth for all those involved.   Learn more about how Karen and her team work with entrepreneurs and investors to succeed at http://karenrands.co 

This podcast is also recordes as a youtube video: https://youtu.be/85oVrF0UYQw

Linda Goetze, the President/CEO of the Blockchain Chamber of Commerce, joins Karen Rands on the Compassionate Capitalist broadcast to talk about the current state of the industry for Blockchain.   Blockchain is the framework for the secure transmission and verification of data, documents and application elements.   Digital Coins and Cryptocurrency is most often associated with Blockchain but as you will hear from Linda and Karen, that is just one of many use cases for Blockchain.  

Watch/Listen to learn the basics of what makes Blockchain a technology disruption for data and commercial transactions and management.  Linda & Karen also discuss the challenges and opportunities for commercial adoption of this technology platform. 

Linda Geotze began her journey with Blockchain with the buying and selling of cryptocurrency in 2012.  She realized the underlying technology had potential to fundamentally change business transactions and make our personal and commercial digital entities more secure.  She got involved with broader Blockchain community, leading to her leadership in the Blockchain Chamber of Commerce.  She was named top 100 Women in Blockchain.   

To get more information about Linda and the Blockchain Ecosystem, visit https://www.blockchainecosystem.io/ 

Karen Rands is the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investing and committed to funding innovation that can create jobs in the community and bring wealth to the founders and investors.   She calls that the Compassionate Capitalist Movement. To learn more about Karen and how her team helps entrepreneurs and investors succeed visit http://karenrands.co

Karen Rands is joined by Ryan Rafols, the founder of the hot new startup cohort in Austin, TX:  Newchip Accelerator where they offer Silicon Valley moxie to Startups from around the world with amazing results.  Just since 2019, Newchip's 200 graduates have represented 30+ Countries and 150+ Cities.   On average they have raised 17.5x more funding than average startups for a total of more than $150M in funding raised.   Ryan and Karen will discuss the vision behind NewChip and the secret of their success.  Part of their success can be attributed to their rigourous application process on the front end and their connection of graduates to their investment community from around the world on their quarterly demo days.  It is what happens in between that leads to the true success of their program and what squarely puts Ryan and Newchip in the Compassionate Capitalist Movement.

Ryan Rafols is the Founder and CEO of Newchip. After multiple startup exits, he launched Newchip to bridge Silicon Valley level mentorship and investors with startups around the globe. To learn more about Newchip visit:  https://launch.newchip.com/

Karen Rands is the Founder of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement and CEO of Kugarand Capital Holdings, a premier advisory firm for entrepreneurs seeking to accellerate their growth to grow nationally and get access to capital through her Launch Funding Network.  Through her best selling book, Inside Secrets to Angel Investors, investor resource portal and due diligence services, Karen helps  investors learn how to create wealth and mitigate risk when investing in the private equity of entrepreneurial endeavors from startup to emerging growth stages.   To learn more, visit: http://karenrands.co

You know you need to raise capital, but how? Do you go the traditional Angel Investor to VC that most tech companies follow or is one of the 5 ways to solicit for investment from the public (Crowd Funding) the best route for your company? In this episode of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast, Karen will explore which methods are best for the specific companies raising capital, and when should strategies be integrated.

Since the JOBS Act of 2012, 5 methods for raising capital from a crowd found have been added to the traditional pipeline of Friends & Family, to Angel Groups, to VCs. They are Reward Based CrowdFunding, Equity Based CrowdFunding (REG CF), Intrastate Crowdfunding, REG D 506c and Reg A+.

Karen has worked with entrepreneurs and investors for over 15 years, educating them on the best practices to succeed in business and get the funding necessary to reach their goals... for the company seeking capital and the investor seeking to get a good return on their investment. Karen Rands uses her podcast platform to amplify her message that the greatest way to create wealth is to have a successful entrepreneur endeavor, and the 2nd best way is by being an investor in a successful start up the scales and exits by selling the company or going through an initial public offering. She is the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investing that is a primer for those seeking to increase their wealth by owning a percentage of multiple private companies. To learn more about Karen's company and the services they offer to entrepreneurs and investors, and to get her book, please visit http://karenrands.co Subscribe, Rate/Like to the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast.

Compassionate Capitalists invest in private companies to bring innovation to market, create jobs and grow the local economy!  To get the return on investment, it requires an exit - IPO or selling the company.  This is true for the founder too.  Positive exits don't happen by magic, they happen when the founders & exec team SCALE the Company to be worthy of the multiple expected for the target ROI.

This interview with Zahir Ladhani looks at the growth strategies that are tried and true, mathematically data grounded, and necessary for the desired out come.  Unfortunately, not every CEO follows this road map. They may find themselves stuck and their investors frustrated. Strategy is fun, but if proper steps haven't been taken, it is an exercise in futility. Listen and learn how to get unstuck or avoid the pitfalls of stagnation so you can SCALE to get the exit and return on investment you expected when you launched your company or invested in that startup. 

Zahir Ladhani serves as the Managing Director of Velocity Strategic Consulting, a firm that guides CEOs and Exec teams to accelerate and manage business growth. Zahir brings more than 30 years of ‘in the trenches’ experience starting with the acquisition of Salary.com by Kenexa and then IBM's acquisition of Kenexa. More info and contact Zahir:  https://velocitystrategicconsulting.com/

Karen Rands is the sought after expert on raising private capital and managing direct public offerings under Reg CF, Reg D 506c, Reg A+ and Intrastate Exemption Reg D 504 offerings. She is the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, and the founder of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement.  For more info and to connect visit http://karenrands.co

Also on YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/TPQUniG5nOk

Stefanie Diaz, Founder of Powered by Verve and Host of She Conquers Capital podcast, joins Karen on this episode of the Compassionate Capitalist show to talk about how women can get started with their own business with confidence and raise the capital they need to succeed as an entrepreneur.   Listen to their dynamic conversation about the importance of understanding your motivation to start a business, overcoming and learning from the objections of potential investors, and getting a seat at the table for wealth creation through successful entrepreneurship. 

Stefanie Diaz is an Advisor for Zane Venture Fund and a Co-Chair for the TiE Atlanta Angels Screening Committee. She volunteers her expertise as an Advisor at Atlanta Tech Village and a 4-time mentor at Techsquare Labs’ $100k Atlanta Startup Battle. Stefanie has been named Atlanta Startup Wonder Woman by Hypepotamus and listed as one of 39 Atlanta Female Leaders to Follow by Startup Sisters. You can learn more and connect at: https://poweredbyverve.com/

Her podcast, She Conquers Capital, can be found on Apple Podcast and Spotify. 

This podcast is also available as a video: https://youtu.be/2KnmeIywG_c

Karen Rands has been named Advocate of the Year for her work to promote Compassionate Capitalism.  She is the author of the best selling primer for investors learning how to invest in entrepreneurs: Inside Secrets to Angel Investing.   She has advised over 100 entrepreneurs on access to capital and has spent 20 years bringing entrepreneurs and investors together to fund innovation and be a catalyst for economic growth.   Learn more and connect at https://karenrands.co 

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The life cycle and milestones used to measure progress and assess risk of Life Sciences companies as an early stage, pre-revenue company, is different than that of a tech or consumer product company. Often there isn't a MVP, Minimum Viable Product, or a prototype, or a beta version to validate that the innovation works. Customer validation usually doesn't come until much later in the lifecycle so it is assumed based on the medical break through intended to solve and address the suffering of an identified market. Investors committed to bringing bio and medical innovations to the market are the minority in the broad scope of angel investors and angel investor groups. In this episode of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast, Karen Rands is joined by Yaniv Sneor, co-founder of the Mid Atlantic Bio Angels (MABA), a life science angel investor group (bioangels.net), where he administers MABA’s internal investment pools, and their co-investment Sidecar Fund (https://sidecarfund.bioangels.net/), for non MABA member investors, to discuss how and why the group formed and their unique approach investing in life sciences companies. 

Educated as a physicist, Mr. Sneor made the transition into the business world about 30 years ago, at which point he took the helm of his first company.  Mr. Sneor has held every C-level position and led his companies through merger, acquisition, capitalization, and turnaround leadership  with companies ranging from start-up to growth stage. Mr. Sneor is also currently the CEO of Native State Therapeutics, an early state biotechnology company in the neurodegeneration field.

Educated as an economist, Karen Rands is leading the Compassionate Capitalist Movement and author of the best selling Inside Secrets to Angel Investing.  http:/karenrands.co

Also available as a video: https://youtu.be/hsKWwjuLsQY

During this episode of the Cannabis Capitalist show, Dr. Sandra Carrillo joins Karen Rands to discuss how medical breakthrough in understanding the human endocannabinoid system interacts with CBD cannabinoids to reduce the suffering from enzyme deficiency and restore health and well being. Listen to gain a better understanding of how the cannabinoids found in Hemp and Cannabis connect with the CB1 (Neural) & CB2 (Immune) receptors of the human endocannabinoid system as a medical treatment for ailments such as epilepsy, memory loss, pain management, mental illness, and much more.  Similar to how long term vitamin deficiency can lead to degradation of organs, bones, and immune systems in the human body, medical research is showing that enzyme deficiencies within the endocannabinoid system is the cause of epilepsy and other neuro-muscular seizures. 

Dr. Sandra Carrillo is a Specialist in Cannabinoids Based Medicine and the President of the Colombian Medical Association of Cannabis Medicine. She is the Professor in charge of the Scientific Program of Medical Cannabis Faculty of Medicine University of Panama and is working on educational program to train Doctors and Health Care Practitioners around the world on use of cannabinoids to treat endocannabinoid enzyme deficiencies. She can be reached at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandracarrillomd/

Karen Rands is a leading expert on economics, entrepreneur development and wealth creation through investing in entrepreneurs.   More info is about her offerings and her best selling book for angel investors available at http://karenrands.co

This interview is also available at https://youtu.be/IWfs-sPq9AQ