The Compassionate Capitalist™ Show for Crowdfund and Angel Investors

There is something that every successful entrepreneur has in common, and that is

the ability to PLAN.  Planning is much more than merely writing “a business plan.” It’s a practice that  serves over the course of a lifetime. Without it, success is highly unpredictable.

Karen Rands, Host of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast Radio Show,  is joined by  Nancy Chorpenning, founder and President of  C-Suite Advisors and the CEO School for Women to talk about the importance of planning for success in business by exploring the risks and challenges the business and its executive team will be faced with as they grow their business. 

Listen to this podcast to gain insights on how to get your business on track for the success you deserve in the coming year. 

Connect with Nancy Chorpenning @ CSuiteAdvisors.com  For the past decade, Nancy has worked tirelessly on behalf of women entrepreneurs.  As an active member of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Nancy was elected to NAWBO’s National Board of Directors, and served as Chair of its Governance Committee. Most recently, she chaired the NAWBO Presidents’ Assembly, leading Presidents in 60 NAWBO Chapters across the U.S. 

Connect with Karen Rands @ Karenrands.co For over a decade Karen has worked with entrepreneurs on their go to market and expansion plans, and providing access to capital of all types.  She has worked with investors for all most as long providing services to educate them on how to mitigate risk on angel investments into private equity and providing due diligence services.  She is the Best Selling Author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investing

Karen Rands, founder of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement for Angel Investors,  talks with author Mark Faust, trusted advisor to Corporate Executive Teams and author of Growth or Bust and High Growth Levers, about how individuals and corporations use Compassionate Capitalism to create wealth and grow their business.   

As a nationally recognized expert on Angel Investing, Karen has written the best selling book Inside Secrets to Angel Investing as a step by step guide for learning how to invest in private companies to bring innovation to the market, create jobs and create wealth for all those involved -- Compassionate Capitalism.   She believes busy executives can effectively diversify their portfolio to invest in entrepreneurs as a wealth creation strategy, and enjoy the passion and excitment of an entrepreneurial endeavor without incurring all the risk and challenges of being an entrepreneur.  

Mark's company, Echelon Management International, works with both leaders of successfully growing companies who want to raise the bar as well as with companies in turnaround. Mark has worked with and interviewed many Fortune 500 CEO's, hundreds of number one sales performers, and thousands of his client's top customers. From this experience and insight, he discovered a corporate version of Compassionate Capitalism that is part of the pattern for success for those companies and executives. 

To learn more about Karen Rands, get access to her video and audio interviews, and learn about the services her company Kugarand Capital Holdings offers, visit http://karenrands.co

To learn more about Mark Faust, and how his firm Echelon helps executive management teams navigate turn around for their business and create high performing environments, visit http://echelonmanagement.com/

Karen Rands, host of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast Radio show, is joined by Paul D'Souza to explore the challenges businesses of all sizes face when growing their revenue year after year.  Listen to this conversation from two strategic entrepreneur advisors about how we to  increase your market impact and revenue.

Paul published a book titled “The Market Has Changed – Have You?“ to address the changes in how customers buy today; which requires people to sell differently.  Relationship and Trust is key, but how do you create that when sales are rarely done face to face any more.   It is easy to have expenses creep up in the ever pursuit of new prospects, without people knowing if they are effective in their conversion of those prospects or even if they have made it into the sales funnel.  The original idea of a sales funnel almose seems archiac in the new world of social media this and SEO that.  Over the past 25 years Paul has consulted, spoken to and mentored people; helping them increase revenue and profits in a sustainable manner. The most effective strategies have always included elements that improve a company's sales strategy and effectivenvess in customer acquisition and conversion.  Connect with Paul at:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauldsouza/

Karen has worked with dozens of companies on their go to market strategy and incorporates a national brand awareness campaign into her investor relations campaigns for her clients.  With her best selling book, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, Karen has become a nationally recognized authority on Angel Investing as an employee retention strategy and economic development strategy.   Learn more about Karen and the services she offers at http://karenrands.co

Equity Crowdfunding is still relatively young as an industry, but is growing leaps and bounds.   Ruth Hedges is recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on crowdfunding and honored to be one of the original pioneers of the legislation that was ultimately signed into law as Title lll 4(a)(6) - the crowdfunding bill in the JOBS Act on April 5, 2012.  Ruth developed CrowdfundingCRM, a robust tool for entrepreneurs launching and managing an equity crowdfunding campaign - the first of its kind built for crowdfunding with robust analytical and marketing tools and much more.

Ruth is also the founder and CEO of Crowdfundingroadmap Inc which operates the Flagship Global Crowdfunding Convention the world’s first annual crowdfunding convention that she created 6 years ago http://thegccworld.com.  It is scheduled for Oct 23 & 24 in Las Vegas and is sponsored by Microsoft.  

With the release of her book, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, Karen Rands has become the evangelist for Compassionate Capitalism and seeks to bring new investors into the market that understand the risks and rewards of investing in 'pre-cap' entrepreneur opportunities.  Crowdfunding represents a new world of economic democratization of the capital markets and a unique opportunity for both women entrepreneurs and investors to gain ground in grabbing more of the wealth creation pie.  Women entrepreneurs and investors are empowered like never before to start and grow businesses and invest in unique opportunities because of crowdfunding.

Karen and Ruth discuss the history and growth of Crowdfunding, the upcoming convention, and how women entrepreneurs and women investors should make plans to participate in this historic event.

Karen Rands returns with her Compassionate Capitalist show to explore how those with a mission and a calling can position themselves as Thought Leaders in their Community and Industry.   Her guest is Mitchell Levy, the AHA Guy.  He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including 4 publishing companies that have published over 800 books.  Mitchell is an international bestselling author with 58 business books and has been a strategic consultant to over 100 companies and advisor to over 500 CEOs.

Karen and Mitchell will discuss how entrepreneurs and business leaders can find their voice to position themselves as authorities and leaders in their industry to further their passion and purpose.   Our audience will learn firsthand how to become Thought Leaders and the 5 top practices to be an authority today.  With the recent release of Karen's Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, she will seek to apply Mitchell's knowledge and expertise to her own passion and purpose - The Compassionate Capitalist Movement - as part of sharing this important information to all who tune in and listen.  If you believe you have a book inside you that must be shared, tune in to learn how Mitchell Levy system to create bestselling self-published books can work for you.

You can connect with Mitchell on social media:

Twitter   &  Linkedin  &   Facebook at HappyAbout

And Karen on social media:

Twitter & LinkedIn &  Facebook/TheKarenRands & KarenRands.co

The Compassionate Capitalist Show, hosted by Karen Rands will dig into the Promise, Potential and Obstacles for the JOBS Act of 2012 to be successful.  Now that all three levels are fully available for entrepreneurs to seek investors from the 'crowd', it is time for a thoughtful and in depth assessment of the progress and short falls of what we call "The Great Experiment". 

The JOBS Act of 2012 was a great initiative to bust down the barrier between entrepreneurs and potential investors. Entrepreneurs no longer have to go through structure angel groups, illegally hire finders, pay big fees to Broker/Dealers or work their way through the doors closed to investors by their wealth managers.  With the ability to 'general solicit', entreprenerus can market their opportunity directly to investors.  But, as we have discovered with the sluggish response to companies participating in the 3 types of capital raising programs for crowd finance, to be successful, net new smart money must come into the market.  Listen to learn what the obstacle is to that success.

Karen Rands has been educating entrepreners on business strategy and providing access to capital for over 15 years.   She has been educating investors on how to be an angel investor and creating environment for entrepreneurs and investors to connect for over 10 years.   She ran one of the most active angel investor groups in the Southeast for many years and will be releasing her book, "Inside Secrets to Angel Investing" shortly.   She is trained as an economist and master business professional.   

To learn more go to http://karenrands.co  and http://compassionatecapitalist.me

Join Karen online on Instagram @compassionatecapitalst & twitter @karen_rands and on Linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenrands

The Compassionate Capitalist show offers insights to help entrepreneurs succeed so they can create wealth for themselves and their investors. A vision for the company's future and growth strategy is built upon the financial success of the business.  Accounting is how it is measured but not something entrepreneurs embrace. As entrepreneurs start up their business, they often lack the skills to manage the day to day accounting of their business or procrastinate reconciling their financial results because the tools most often recommended are not easy to use.   Learn about new tools that make accounting and managing the financial health of your business easy, and all the other aspects of running a strong growing company when you tune in to this session.

Karen Rands will be talking with Robby Mathis, successful entrepreneur in his own right and the Founder of the Robby Group.  Robby believes small businesses, non-profits and individuals deserve the same tax advisory and accounting support as large corporate companies – all at an affordable price. After working for PricewaterhouseCoopers and earning his Master of Accountancy degree, he stepped away from corporate America to share his unique knowledge and experience with the hard working backbone of the American working class at a price they could afford. The firm he founded, The Robby Group, leverages cloud technology, through an easy-to-use accounting platform called Xero, and advanced tax research and preparation software for one reason – to ensure that clients are able to make the best financial decisions for their companies and their families.

To learn more about Karen Rands, Her Company Services, and her Best Selling Book - Inside Secrets to Angel Investing - go to http://karenrands.co

To learn more about Robby Group and find out more about the tools you can use to accelerate your business, go to: https://calendly.com/robbymathis

Karen Rands, the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement, returns to the airwaves with her special guest Joseph Sroka, Chief Investment Officer for NovaPoint Capital, LLC. 

There comes a point in many successful employees and executives lives when they wonder what it would be like to be their own boss, to strike out and start their own company.   In this half hour talk, Karen and Joseph will explore what strategies can be used from the very beginning to increase those transitioning from corporate to start up can use to increased their odds of success in their entrepreneurial endeavor.

They will look explore and offer key recommended action:

•    deciding if start up idea is better than the day job

•    finding seed capital to just start it up

•    determining alternative sources of capital to sustain to until more capital or revenue comes in.

If you or someone you know is thinking about leaving their job to start a company, listen or have them listen in or listen to the replay.   Even if you have already left your company, you can still benefit from the strategies offered here to get you on the right track sooner than later.

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NovaPoint Capital  is an investment adviser firm that works with individuals, small businesses and non-profit organizations.

Karen Rands has established a reputation for providing clear cut strategies for companies to launch and grow and gain access to the capital they need along the way.  Also as the managing director for the National Network of Angel Investors she is a leading source for investor education.  Best Selling Book: Inside Secrets to Angel Investing at KarenRands.co

Karen Rands talks with Tom Mackey of EPIC about creative ways that experienced investors can use the techniques private equity funds and M&A firms use to mitigate risks when investing and acquiring companies.  Karen shares her insights in ways that angel investors can manage their risk when investing in private companies.  As the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement, and the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, she has keen insights on how investors can add equity investments into private entrepreneur endeavors into their wealth creation strategy.   Compassionate Capitalism takes investing away from just buying and selling to building companies and contributing to the economy by creating jobs and funding innovation that can better our lives.   Listen to learn how you can get involved or more active as an Angel Investor and feel good about including private equity into your investment portfolio.   

To learn more about Karen's Book Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, see what is included, get and excerpt and buy go to: http://InsideSecretstoAngelInvesting.com

To learn more about Karen Rands and how she solved problems for entrepreneurs and investors, go to http://karenrands.co

You can also connect to Karen on social media platforms:  Twitter    Facebook   Linkedin

The Compassionate Capitalist show, with host Karen Rands, is dedicated to helping Investors and Entrepreneurs understand the rules of the game when creating generational wealth.  With the advent of Direct to the Public offerings via the REG D 506c and REG A+, investors have great freedom to gain access to private company stocks in a 'retail' like environment, but with the added benefit of similar upside potential as with a pre-IPO company.   However with great Freedom comes great Responsibility.   Investors must have the discipline to consider only stocks from companies that embrace the concept of transparency and full disclosure.  Furthermore, they must be willing to increase their business savviness and financial IQ in order to make their own investment decisions rather than rely soley on a financial planner to make recommendations.  

With the dynamic of Transparency, Entrepreneurs must also realize that unlike the situations they may experience with traditional angel investors, venture capital firms, and even with market-makers driving a strike price for an IPO, raising capital directly from the full market of potential investors means that there is much more 'steak' than 'sizzle' when it comes to getting buying decisions.  Stocks are not 'bought' like on the retail public market, they are sold.  

This broadcast will dig into what Investors can do to insure there is transparency in the process of making a buying decision.  Entrepreneurs will learn more about what is expected to maximize full value of your stock in the proposed offering. 

Investors can learn more about the investment process with "Inside Secrets to Angel Investing" found at http://InsideSecretsToAngelInvesting.com