The Compassionate Capitalist™ Show for Crowdfund and Angel Investors

Karen Rands brings Compassionate Capitalist viewers & listeners another episode of Cannabis Capitalism with her interview of Michael Scott, Founder and CEO, and Todd Sullivan, Co-CEO, of Cannapreneur Partners.  

Karen, Michael & Todd discuss the challenges and opportunities for investing in canna businesses. With a predicted 14% year on year growth trend, the canna industry is expected to be $30B by 2025 making it a hot investment sector to diversify into in a portfolio.  Smart investors are learning how to unlock the liquidity of their 401Ks and reap financial rewards of tax free investing in the growing legal cannabis market. Cannapreneur Partners approaches the opportunities they see with deep financial analytical modelling and proprietary due-diligence for both investors and entrepreneurs enabling great synergies and explosive growth with cash flow in canna investments.

Listen to learn:

~ Why Cannabis is the hottest investment sector over the next 5 years

~ Details about how to turn your 401K into a tax free shelter for private investments, even Cannabis investment

For more information and a copy of the Michael's book, visit:  http://cannapreneurpartners.com

Watch as Youtube: https://youtu.be/NMKUppGoqLw

Karen Rands is the author of the best selling finance education book:  Inside Secrets to Angel Investing and the founder of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement.  Karen advises entrepreneurs on best practices for growing their companies and access to capital.  She assists investors and angel investor groups with due diligence and syndication within her Launch Funding Nework and National Network of Angel Investors.

IPOs get the big press.   Mergers & Acquisitions are usually private transactions.  Startup Founders and their investors plan for an 'exit' that sometimes may be an Initial Public Offering - IPO - but usually the most likely exit happens much sooner than an IPO, when the company gets acquired by a fund or another bigger company.   Listen to this episode of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast show to host Karen Rands, and guest Ted Bender, discuss the differences in types of acquisitions:  horizontal, vertical, consolidation, strategic, market expansion, roll-up and  how they might pursued as an exit strategy.  Most acquisitions are calculated as a multiple on EBITDA.  For startups and early stage companies, sometimes there is a intangible factor such as the strategic value of tech or customer set that isn't measured by profit.   And then there is 'timing'... when do you sell and does there come a time of diminishing return? 

Ted Bender is an expert in the M&A space, founding Croft & Bender, a highly regarded Investment Bank, with 3 private equity funds that invested in more than forty companies across various industries and growth stages. Currently Ted owns & operates TJ Bender & Company, which provides M&A, capital raising, and strategic advisory services to businesses, family offices, and private equity firms.

Karen Rands  advises Founders & CEOs on growth strategies and access to capital through her Launch Funding Network.  She works with private investors and family offices on due-diligence and company operational reviews. She is the best selling author of financial primer for angel investors:  Inside Secret to Angel Investing.

Kirk Taylor & Mark Jensen join Karen Rands to discuss how they saw an opportunity to have an impact on the Appalachian Coal Mining region by overcoming the challenges of a community that so no way to turn their economy and environment around. Bees are by far the most significant animal pollinators and critical to the ecosystem. Their ability to thrive has been threatened for decades due to environmental impact of black carbon air pollution and excessive use of toxic pesticides.  Through the Land Betterment Corp, Kirk & Mark are healing the land, growing the local economy, benefiting the environmental ecosystem, giving people a vision for a better future, and making money doing it - Compassionate Capitalism. Entrepreneurs and investors are encouraged to look at novel ways they may invest their time and money to have the greatest impact and ROI as we seek to invigorate regions and industries damaged by economic downturn from COVID 19. 

Kirk Taylor, President & CFO, and Mark Jensen, Executive Chairman, of Land Betterment use their extensive knowledge as serial entrepreneurs, with deep experience in financing, acquisitions and fiscal controls of public companies, to bring a bold vision for reversing the environmental and economic devastation of the region. Learn More about their business initiatives, environmental remediation, and impact investing at http://landbetterment.com 

Karen Rands' firm Kugarand Capital Holdings offers strategic services for entrepreneurs and investors to increase wealth through funded innovation. Learn more and get her best seller- Inside Secrets to Angel Investing at http://karenrands.co

This broadcast is also available as video: https://youtu.be/iNvs3n5CJmg

On this segment of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast show, Karen Rands and Jim Karrh explore the value of creating an on-point message that will attract investors, increase customer loyalty, and empower your team and community to invoke the power of positive Word of Mouth messaging. Your corporate message isn't your mission statement or your corporate values statement. Your corporate message conveys your value proposition, is memorable, and easy to share. You will also find out how develop your message from startup to scale and avoid the 3 C indicators of when you are off track. 

This podcast is also available as a Youtube VideoInterview: https://youtu.be/F3il4AWo_QY

Jim Karrh, PhD has recieved national and international awards for his insights and expertise.  He is a renowned speaker and author of The Science of Customer Connections, Manage your Message to Grow Your Business.  More info available at http://jimkarrh.com 

Karen Rands is a nationally recognized expert on angel investing and entrepreneurial economic growth.  She is the founder of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement and uses her Compassionate Capitalist Podcast Show as her platform to spread the message of wealth creation through funded innovation. Karen is the best selling author of angel investor primer: Inside Secrets to Angel Investing; Step by Step Strategies to Leverage Private Equity Investment for Passive Wealth Creation.  Learn more about how she helps entrepreneurs and investor to create wealth through successful companies and funded innovation http://karenrands.co

Hall Martin, storied angel investor from Texas, returns to the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast show with host Karen Rands to talk about his novel approach to negotiating a guarranteed ROI when investing in private companies. Both entrepreneurs and investors often focus their attention on the potential ROI of an investment based on an acquisition exit in 5 years. More times than not, that type of exit doesn't materialize because the company doesn't maintain the rate of growth originially forecasted to achieve the 4X in 5 years.   As time goes on, the IRR - the Internal Rate of Return, lowers compared to a straight ROI multiple calculation. Under Hall's 3X in 3Years model, investors and entrepreneurs establish a contracted guarranteed return for the investor if the entrepreneur doesn't hit their milestones, misses their next round of venture finance and therefore fails to scale as originally proposed. This method benefits the entrepreneur to add incentive to their first money in investors, and benefits the investors because they know they have the option to get a return in 3 years that can be put back to work in the community.  Karen and Hall cover many additional topics too. 

This podcast was also created as a video and is available here: Youtube

Hall Martin is the founder and CEO of TEN Capital Network.  His involvement in building and leading angel investor groups spans decades, beginning with the Central Texas Angel Network through to his current involvement with the Baylor Angel Network. His work with entrepreneurs also spans decades and many organizations.  Learn more at http://TENCapital.group

Karen Rands is the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investors. KarenRands.co

Learn how startups use 360 Reputation Marketing to get big results and reach their potential for the founders and investors.   Dean Trevelino joins Karen Rands on the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast to talk about the importance of an integrated strategy that creates a trusted relationship with your target customer, good will to grow the value of the company for stake holders, and conscious capitalism to maintain trust and good will in the midst of a crisis.  Karen & Dean talk about the 5 types of media that makes up 360 Marketing that is outcome driven. 360 Reputation Marketing is a critical aspect of gaining trust from investors when raising capital through General Solicitation. Watch this as a video https://youtu.be/_WoH3S-8YtY

Dean also shares insights on how to build a team and manage steady growth of Trevelino/Keller over 17 years and multiple catastrophic economic crisis events, resulting in #2 ranking across many industries.  Learn more at http://trevelinokeller.com 

Karen provides insight from her 15 years of working with entrepreneurs and investors and why this information contributes to the wealth creation of an investor backed successful startup.  Karen is the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investing.  Get more info about how her firm is a trusted adviser to entrepreneurs and investors about wealth creation from Compassionate Capitalism at http://karenrands.co 

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In an era of social isolation and financial uncertainty, are angel investors still investing? How are they sourcing deals and reviewing new opportunities? Are angel investors holding back like they did in 2009?  Is the optimism in the market? Have the angel networks shifted their opportunity areas or changed the stage of opportunity they are seeking? Listen to learn the answers to these questions and so much more. 

This episode of the The Compassionate Capitalist Podcast will explore the creative ways that angel investor networks are staying in the game to make investments in innovation, grow small business and job creation.   Karen Rands is joined by Barry Etra, who runs two Entrepreneur / Angel Investor forums in Atlanta. The first is the RAISE Forum, which focuses on local early-stage companies in an effort to fund more local companies at higher levels and to keep them in the SE. The second is the Atlanta chapter of the Keiretsu Forum, that sources emerging growth companies on the East Coast providing them access to investment capital from the the largest and most active Angel Investment network in the world, with 52 chapters on 3 continents. To get more information keiretsuforum.comraiseforum.com

Karen Rands is nationally recognized for her expertise in entrepreneurs' access to capital and the best selling author of the financial primers for angel investors:  Inside Secrets to Angel Investing.   She ran one of the most active angel investor group in the Southeast and pioneered the Entrepreneur/Investor conferences in Atlanta before the 2009 recession spooked investors who took their money out of the market.   Karen launched the Compassionate Capitalist Movement then. Learn More KarenRands.co

Karen kicks off this Compassionate Capitalist Podcast by talking about financing and leadership best practices for the small businesses during this time of economic and financial uncertainty to come out the other end stronger and better prepared grow your company and profits in 60 days. Karen first briefly covers the types of capital available through the SBA under the CARES Act, other types of capital, business disruption planning, exercising your mind and your strategy for coming out of this downtime better and stronger.  Karen then sets the stage for part two of the podcast with her interview with Interim CFO, Niki Bell.  Karen provides clarity on phrases and terms discussed in the second part, specifically 'public offering' and 'return on investment'.  

Investors and Lenders consider the company's financials as a key basis for any decision to invest or lend money.  CFOs are critical to accurate financial reporting -- forecasting as a startup and accurate reflecting the health of a business if a going concern.  Interim CFO's are temporary or part time until the company has the need for a full time CFO. 

Niki Bell is offers Financial Advisory, Business Consulting and Leadership Development for growing companies and connects company projects up with investors seeking those types of opportunities. https://www.linkedin.com/in/diosadevida/

Karen Rands is the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investors, working with angel groups to turn their underperforming portfolio companies and helps them build implement a fresh capital strategy to match their growth business strategy, while providing access to capital through the Launch Funding Network.  Learn more at http://karenrands.co

As Investors and Entrepreneurs, it is hard to anticipate what a crisis, internally or externally, may have on the future of your business.  Listen to hear Karen Rands and David Nour talk about how to anticipate and respond to business disrupters that can send your company, and your investments, into crisis.  Change, creativity, and collaboration are the 3 Cs that can keep a company on it's growth curve. 

In David's new book, Curve Benders, he explores the intersection of the Future of Work and Strategic Relationships. Curve Benders outlines 15 forces that will dramatically impact the way we work, the way we live, the way we play, and the way we give.  How will the way that we work in next 20 years change in the next 2 decades, or in the next 2 years with the devastating impact of COVID19?   Listen to this lively conversation with Karen and David on the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast.

David Nour is internationally recognized as the leading expert on strategic business relationships. The author of ten books, including best-sellers CO-CREATE and Relationship Economics, as well as the upcoming Curve Benders (IdeaPress).  Nour serves as a trusted advisor to global clients and coaches corporate leaders and rising entrepreneurs.  Intro to Curve Benders: https://youtu.be/LnPNUHI-hPs      Visit http://nourgroup.com for more information. 

Karen Rands is a nationally recognized expert on Angel Investing, the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement, and the author of the best selling finance book for wealth creation:  Inside Secrets to Angel Investing.   Learn more about how she helps companies grow their business and get the capitali to do it at http://karenrands.co

As part of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast series, we produced this video episode too.  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.  The 4 methods to solicit from the general public are not created equal.   Watch and Listen as Karen explains the difference and how companies are having success using the 4 methods: Intrastate Exemption (Reg D 504), Reg D 506c, Reg CF and Reg A+.  

This Compassionate Capitalist Video is availabale on Youtube: https://youtu.be/O_M27XJDIbY

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