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Compassionate Capitalist Show: Media Tech Entrepreneur turned Venture Capitalist

Listen (or watch) as Shachar Oren of Sound Media Ventures shares his journey from boot strapped startup to successful exit to lead a Media Tech VC firm in Atlanta. Karen first met Shachar nearly 2 decades ago when he was raising capital for Neurotic Media and wanted to present to her angel group, the Network…
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Compassionate Capitalist Show - Cultivation Capital with Cliff Holekamp

Karen Rands is joined by Cliff Holekamp, managing partner and co-founder of Cultivation Capital, to talk about the growth in entrepreneurism as a stimulus to local economies.   Cities out of Silicon Valley and the Boston/New York corridor struggle to cultivate entrepreneurs and community based sources of capital to grow the jobs in their community and fuel economic…
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The Inside Secrets to Getting Venture Capital with Teresa Esser

Listen to Karen Rands and Teresa Esser talk about helping entrepreneurs apply best practices for raising capital from Angel Investors AND Venture Capitalists.  Private capital seeks opportunities that are unique with a strong market potential and validated business model.  Those are the tangible requirements.   The intangible, the subjective side of the process to raise capital…
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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,…
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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,…