The Compassionate Capitalist™ Show for Crowdfund and Angel Investors

One thing that has been proven again and again through history, is that the financial markets will go up and down.  They will ebb and flow, almost like a life form, like water seeking to flow and find the fissures and pathways to pool together, aggregate and rise.   Karen Rands, as the Compassionate Capitalist Evangelist, and an Economist by training, has a lively discussion with Dr. Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute.  The Mises Institute, part of the Auburn University system, is an economic policy think tank built upon the Austrian Business Cycle Theory that promotes free and capitalist markets.   Dr. Thornton is a leading economist that investigates history, economic matters, financial markets, and key indicators that correlate with market corrections and collapses.   He has written a number of books regarding free markets and the economy.  The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century, was profound in its 2009 Recession predictions. Get your free copy.

Karen and Mark explore this theory, market corrections in history not correllated with massive skyscrapers and other potential influences.   They wrap up their conversation with an exploration of a 2020 prediction of a market collapse and the opening of the 1 Kilometer high skyscraper in Saudi Arabia in 2020.  Karen asks about 3 current influences:  Volatility of ICOs, the economic growth of small business as a result of 2012 JOBS Act only now beginning to show impact, and the movement of money out of the stock market to fund the new Opportunity Zone Funds, the infrastructure investment it promises, along with drop in Treasury Revenues.  Tune in to hear the recommendations.

Karen Rands is joined with trail blazing Award Winning Coppersmith, Author & Entrepreneur Sara Dahmen on the Compassionate Capitalist Radio Show. Karen & Sara talk about the challenges women face in climbing the corporate ladder and breaking through in the entrepreneur world.  And when female entrepreneurs find their passion in the pursuit of their entrepreneurial dream, they perservere, gain confidence, and find they can overcome every obstacle.

Sara's unique journey from Ad Exec, to Best Selling Author, and Top Regional Event Planner, culminates with her discovering the lost art of designing and restoring sustainable copper cookware that dates back to before WWI.  Listen to her secrets of success and the power of seeking mentors and facing one's fear of not knowing what you don't know. 

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Visit Sara and see her functional, artisan, copper cookware at : www.saradahmen.com www.housecopper.com

Visit Karen and learn how she helps entrepreneurs and investors at http://karenrands.co and pick up ebook on 12 of the 44 secrets she covers in her best seller Inside Secrets to Angel Investing.

Also available as a Podcast on BlogTalkRadio, TuneIn, Stitcher & iTunes on the show name Compassionate Capitalist Podcast Radio.

Karen Rands is the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement and the Author of the Best Selling book, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing.   It is the preferred tool for Angel Groups with new members that need to get up to speed, and those investors with a desire to diversify their wealth portfolio to include private equity stock of exciting entrepreneurial endeavors. 

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+.  The barriers between entrepreneurs and investors have been removed, but that doesn't mean it is any easier to raise capital.  If you pursue the wrong strategy, it can be an exercise in futility and a waste of time and money.   

In this episode of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast, Karen will explore which methods are best for the specific companies and when should strategies be integrated. 

Article Listing top CrowdFunding Sites and Definitions 

Angel Capital Associations FAQ about Angel Investors 

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. To learn more about Karen, the programs she offers Investors and Entrepreneurs, and to get a free excerpt of her book, the top 12 Inside Secrets, visit http://karenrands.co

Karen Rands, host of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast Show and Best Selling Author of Inside Secrets of Angel Investing, is excited to have Taylor Ryan, CMO at Valuer.ai as her guest.  Taylor is a mentor, startup junkie, technical marketer, and growth hacker  - a Compassionate Capitalist!  Taylor will share one of the secrets that helped Valuer.ai scale rapidly as a start up, & how they are helping other startups reach their sales targets faster through innovative use of Artificial Intelligence - AI to match startups with corporations seeking externally sourced innovation. 

As a Co-founder of 5 prior startups, author and contributor to Entrepreneur.com, Taylor has relevant experiences to share with the entrepreneurs in our listenting community.   As usual, Karen will expand the conversation by adding the investor's perspective how this can increase the value proposiiton for startups seeking growth capital. 

Taylor often guest lectures at University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School, Talent Garden, and Google  https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylorryan/

Karen Rands has been helping entrepreneurs and investors connect to fund innnovation, create jobs, and create wealth, what she calls compassionate capitalism, for over a decade.  Her best selling book is a primer for those seeking  to learn how to invest in the passion and potential of an entrepreneur from startup to expansion.  Her firm, Kugarand Capital Holdings, helps entrepreneurs take advantage of the many ways to raise capital to develop and implement a capital strategy that aligns with their business strategy.  To learn more go to http://karenrands.co   https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenrands/

Jason Linett, best selling author of Work Smart Business, joins Karen Rands on the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast Radio to talk about best practices for starting a business fast and smart in order to defy the odds that your business won't fail in the first year.   You'll learn his tested principles and proven strategies to WORK SMART as you start-up or scale up your business.

Jason is an award winning, world renowned hypnotist, TedX speaker, and self made millionaire.  He used the principles of success he learned from top business performers and professional athletes to build his own million-dollar brand and multiple successful businesses, and then wrote his book and developed coaching programs to help other entrepreneurs achieve the success the strive for.   To get Jason's book, Work Smart Business and learn more visit: https://jasonlinett.com/

Karen is the nationally recognized expert on angel investing and the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement.   She believes that entrepreneurism is the greatest way to create wealth, investing in entrepreneurs is the second greatest way.   When Entrepreneurs adopt best practices for success in their business, and investors learn how to properly evaluate that success to become a financial partner so that Innovation comes to market, Jobs are created, and Wealth is made - You have Compassionate Capitalism.  Click to learn more about Karen and her best selling book, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing. 

Both books are also available on Amazon.

Started about the same time, Conscious Capitalism is more known than Compassionate Capitalism.  The underlying principals behind both are quite similar and have been part of the underlying American culture for decades, if not since the birth of our nation.  Karen Rands , host of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast and Founder and Chief Evangelist of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement, explains the difference between Conscious Capitalism (CEOs and the Corporations they run being good corporate and community citizens) and Compassionate Capitalism (Investors making money by helping entrepreneur launch and grow their businesses by providing a portion of the financing they need to succeed).  Karen looks into the foundation and history of each, and explains the benefits of each for a community and the economy at large. 

The podcast was originally recorded as a videocast and is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHoLlaNCb38

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Karen Rands is the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investing.  The difinitive guide to getting started as an Angel Investing -- whether investing in crowdfunded company under Reg CF or microcap growth under a Reg A+ or new to an angel group and want to get up to speed quicker, this book and the resources provided will help you determine how much, how often, and what kind of investments to make based on your risk profile.   Buy the book, & Join the Compassionate Capitalist Movement.    Test the Waters with a free excerpt of 12 of the 44 Inside Secrets included in the book.

Karen Rands is joined by Diane Conklin, President / Founder at Complete Marketing Systems, LLC to discuss the importance of a comprehensive brand and marketing strategy for start up and emerging growth companies.

All too often, entrepreneurs and business owners think that they can't afford to advertise in traditional media, or they don't understand social media advertising, or the integration of a brand/marketing strategy, so they will pick one and dabble with it. Often doing more harm than good when it comes to customer engagement and conversion in an increasingly digital sales environment. Karen and Diane break it down for entrepreneurs to learn how they can affordably create a world class brand by being smart about how they spend their marketing dollars.

To get more information about Karen Rands go to http://karenrands.co and get access to all of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcasts.  Karen is the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investing and has worked with entrepreneurs and investors brining innovation to the market for over 15 years. 

To get more information about Diane Conklin, go to http://CompleteMarketingSystems.com  Diane has been working with business owners helping them create and implement successful marketing strategies for 30 years. 

This podcast is also available as a video at https://youtu.be/tdC6IBxEhrs

Karen Rands, Strategic Advisor to investors & entrepreneurs, welcomes Eddie Lorin, Founder of Strategic Realty Holdings, to the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast to talk Opportunity Zones, the Funds that qualify, the crazy incentives for investors, and the types of projects that make most sense.  Opportunity Zones were added to the tax code by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on December 22, 2017 and the potential to profoundly and dramatically shift economic development from suburbs to metropolitan areas and long term real estate development.  There are theories that the turmoil in the stock market, as well as the decline in single family residential new construction, are foreshadowing the next 10 years as a result of this dramatic legislation.  Karen and Eddie will explore all of thrse aspects and provide the listening audience with a better understanding of this diamond in the rough investment incentive, and the actionable steps investors can take now to maximize their ROI for real estate and equity investments.

Over the past 30 years, Eddie Lorin has successfully purchased and transformed $3 billion worth of multifamily

real estate within 180 thriving communities covering approximately 40,000 apartment units throughout the U.S.  To connect with Eddie, go to http://www.alliantstrategic.com

Karen Rands has worked with entrepreneurs and investors for over 15 years, creating opportunities for them to connect & engage to bring innovation to the market, create jobs, and create wealth for all those involved - Compassionate Capitalism.  She is the author of the best selling Investor book:  Inside Secrets to Angel Investing.

To learn more go to http://karenrands.co

Karen Rands, leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement, is joined by Suresh Sharma, author of The 3rd American Dream, an insightful book about innovation and entrepreneurship which offers ideas for creating successful entrepreneur ecosystems for communities and building our entrepreneur economy on a national level.  Karen and Suresh will talk about the state of entrepreneurism in America with the growth in incubators & accellerators and the new ways for investors and entrepreneurs to connect as a result of the 2012 JOBS Act. 

Suresh is a former GE-executive turned successful entrepreneur, with a remarkable international journey of excellence to unleash the full potential of people and organizations through innovation, technology, global operations, strategy, entrepreneurship and investments.  He is, as Karen sees it, a true Compassionate Capitalist that has invested time, knowledge, resources, and money into helping entrepreneurs bring innovation to market, create jobs, and create wealth for all those involved.  Suresh currently serves  as a Managing Partner or Partner in a number of PE/VC firms.  Learn more at https://www.linkedin.com/in/suresh1sharma/  

Karen is the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investing and believes that every investor should be adding investing in private companies as an asset class to their portfolio.  It is the second best way to create wealth, entrepreneurism being the first.  Join the Compassionate Capitalst Movement by signing up for Karen's video tip series for entrepreneurs and investors at http://bit.ly/CCCB-signup  and get the book & over $900 of tools & resources at http://bit.ly/insidesecretsbook1

Karen Rands is leading the Compassionate Capitalist Movement with her deep knowledge and experience about the ecosystem for the best practices for both investors and entrepreneurs to achieve their desired return on investment of time and money. 

The ability to raise money from a Crowd of strangers and fans for an entrepreneur startup venture has been around since 2000.  It wasn't until 2012 that the US Government (JOBS Act) started to put plans in place to allow the High Net Worth Angel Investors and the 'Average Joe' investor to participate in funding companies, buying the stocks in those companies before they were available to the public, that they didn't meet through a friend or advisor or a membership in an investor club.  They would hear about these investment opportunities through a general solicitation via the internet or other media that the company was selling equity of their private company.  And it wasn't until 2016 that REG CF (Regulation Crowd Funding) was fully available for investors to share in the wealth of these types of startup companies.  Equity Based Crowd Funding has been hailed as the great economic equalizer for aspiring entrepreneurs and investors at all income levels, yet many traditiional angel investors and venture capitalists are resistant to co investing on deals that have received funding from the crowd.   Karen will break it down for both entrepreneurs and investors on how crowd funding, specifically REG CF, can integrate into a capitalization strategy for companies at every stage of growth. 

Karen Rands is the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, hailed as the #1 source for those investors getting started as investors in private equity.   You can learn more about Karen, her offerings, and her book at http://karenrands.co