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Pros & Cons for Raising Capital Direct to Investors vs Angel Investors & VCs

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…
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Sheets & Giggles - Building a Company to Scale with Specific Intent

Colin McIntosh, Founder and CEO of Sheets & Giggles, joins Karen Rands on the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast show to share his journey to identify a way to address a cause he was passionate about with a clear material need in the market, make a profit each step of the way as the company scaled and…
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Crowd Funding - The 4 ways to raise equity capital and when to use them

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…
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What is an Angel Investor? Karen knows and it may not be who you think.

In this segment of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast, Karen Rands responds to an entrepreneur's question:  What is an Angel Investor?   Since 2012, the definition and the game to attract angel investors has changed.  Once considered only an activity available for an exclusive group of entrepreneurs turned investors, the access to capital and those who can…
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Crowdfunding Pioneer | Ruth Hedges | Compassionate Capitalist Show

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…
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Crowd Finance - The Catalyst for Economic Democracy

We are in a unique place in American history. Crowd Finance, the ability to attract capital from a crowd of strangers, has fundamentally changed the entire capital formation and access to capital paradigm.  For the first time, investors and entrepreneurs are experiencing "Disintermediation" - the attempt to do away with the intermediary entities between two primary market forces to eliminate the middle man.