Karen Rands, host of the Compassionate Capitalist Radio Podcast, highlights the business trends in the legal Cannabis Industry with Cannabis Capitalist Radio segments. This episode has been edited for re-broadcast of a highly popular segment because this topic is under represented and so important to understand. Kristen Yoder is trusted advisor in the Cannabis Industry and Veteran
October 2019
Compassionate Capitalist - Startup, Scale then become a Venture Capitalist
Women find themselves a minority in tech companies, even in Silicon Valley. Fewer find themselves in as co-founders of companies that go through multiple rounds of venture capital and scale successfully to be an acquisition target, or with potential for an initial public offering. Minnie used her success to become compassionate capitalist and invest her time, knowledge,
Strategies for Angel Investors to Invest like a Venture Capitalist
Karen Rands is joined by Rashaun Williams to discuss strategies to diversify a portfolio of investments which include private equity as an angel investor. Rashaun Williams is a former investment banker on wall street turned angel investor with venture capitalist approach focused on tech, consumer products & media companies. With over 100 investments under his belt and
Sustainable Investing from a Compassionate Capitalist Perspective
Karen Rands is joined by Michael Sakraida to discuss the evolution of "Sustainable Investing". SRI or Sustainable Investing can mean Sustainable, Responsible, Impact investing or Socially Responsible Investing, but few really know what qualifies as SRI. Mainstream investment philosophy creates confusion as if there is a trade off between investing to do good or investing to make money. Compassionate Capitalism
Compassionate Capitalist > Direct Public Offerings (DPO)
Direct Public Offering or DPO was a legal way for entrepreneurs to directly solicit investment from the public withough filing with the SEC to become a public entitity. It was rarely used. Then Crowd Funding came along. Crowd Funding as a label is very confusing in the market place. You usally have to add a