Karen Rands - Compassionate Capitalist

Compassionate Capitalist Show is about wealth creation - 1st as a successful entrepreneur; 2nd as an investor in a successful entrepreneur.  Real estate investing has many parallels to angel investing into entrepreneurs. They can often interchange to be the starting point for creating additional wealth for investing in the other asset class. There is an ongoing debate as to which is riskier; which requires more capital to get started and have available to maintain the asset; and even which produces the greatest average return. In this episode of The Compassionate Capitalist Show, listeners will learn about a way to create wealth that when done correctly, to create wealth and do social good, also sets the stage for extra cashflow to be put toward investing in entrepreneurs as a crowdfunding investor or angel investor.  Martin Saenz joins Karen Rands to talk about Mortgage Notes investing as a niche investment strategy that offers the hybrid of 'investor as a bank' and real estate backed security.  Martin Saenz

Entrepreneur Founders, Angel Investors, and VCs all want to maximize their Return on Investment, their realized gain, when it looks like there is potential for an IPO with the company. It is hard to predict which startups will navigate the treacherous journey from start to finish of an IPO when the race isn't a sprint, it can have many twists and turns and obstacles to over come, to reach the pinnacle of an IPO rather than acquisition or merger. Many of the ways to avoid taxes on capital gains and even 'phantom earnings' need to be dealt with at the start of the incentive or in the early days of the company starting up, not in the final stretch to an IPO. Host Karen Rands is joined by Aaron Rubin, JD, CPA, CFP, partner with Werba Rubin Papier Wealth Management, LLC and author of "Financial Adulting", a guide for young professionals navigate tax, investing and estate planning. Aaron works with pre-IPO executives and early employees at late-state tech companies to help them minimize their tax liability and keep

Just 1.2% of the record $137 billion invested in US startups in the first half of 2021 went to Black entrepreneurs, and only 2% went to women-founded companies, according to a blog post from Crunchbase. If you aren't familiar with the challenges non-white, non-male founders of startups face getting capital in the United States, these numbers are actually better than they have been in the past. There was a great wakeup call in 2020 to the barriers to capital diverse founders face. Zane Ventures is not new to the party, but they are using this new found corporate and traditional investor consciousnes and awareness momentum to be a disrupter in the capital market place. Through their long-standing Zane Access program they have mentored 1200 startups with diverse founders.  With the launch of their venture fund they are able to invest in bold founders who have innovative business models and are building early-stage technology solutions with early traction, whether in dollars or data. Shila Nieves Burney is the Fo

Did you know? 44% of the American workforce makes less than $20 an hour and are living paycheck to paycheck. Much of that hourly wage employee sector is considered essential workforce to keep our economy humming, as evident in the pandemic triggered shut down and in the current supply chain crisis. For this Compassionate Capitalist Show, Karen Rands is joined by Sabina Bhatia, Chief Customer Officer at PayActiv, to talk about the impact 'financial insecurity and well being' of hourly wage workers have on the profitability and scalability of businesses. Earned Wage Access is rapidly becoming the #1 way for companies to attract and retain their non-salary employees. Understanding HOW high turnover and job vacancies, and how distracted and anxious employees effect quality control and customer experience, is critical for both founders and investors. The soft dollar impact on the financial performance of a company and stagnation of a company to reach their growth targets directly correlates to the ROI of an invest

Siena Dexter joins Karen Rands on The Compassionate Capitalist Show(tm) to talk about the data science of connecting with consumers to choose your brand, your product over a competitor.    How do you create brand loyalty?   How do you garner interest in a new product or brand so that your target consumer knows what the value is in just 3 seconds?  Siena calls it the 3 Second Decision.  Listen and learn how the BIGGEST names in Consumer Packaged Goods use behavioral economics to trigger the consumers' consciousness logic, and subconscious emotion all at once to make a buying decision and how that turns into brand loyalty.  Siena and Karen dig into the market adoption of meat alternatives and the evolution of the 'women' personal care market.  Siena is the Director of Brand Strategy and Associate Partner at  Smashbrand, where she helps Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands win on shelf through quantified consumer metrics.  Siena’s educational and professional journey brought her to Smashbrand where her main inte

Renata Marino joins Karen Rands on the Compassionate Capitalist Show to discuss her unique perspective as a Latina navigating the challenges of startups raising capital, bringing products to market, raising capital, and finally becoming an angel investor herself.  Key discussion points are:  Expectations that Women, and specifically brown and black women, face and the challenges they routinely must over come to break into the board room and into venture capital. Why is it that more women haven't made that same crossover to angel investing and even in the VC realm?  What are some of the best practices for female founders to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams, and specifically to raise capital? Renata Merino's professional experience with innovation in sports tech product development gave her a passion for entrepreneurism, launching 3 startups and serving as CMO in the 4th.  This success led her to the world of venture as an angel investor and currently serving as a Venture Investment Scout for Going VC Part

Karl Maier, Founder of Abunden, joins Karen Rands to talk about how his Abunden Management Toolkit system helps his clients double their sales.  Karen jokes at the start of this show -- that this info is the INSIDE Secret business owners and investors are looking for to actually 20x their sales so they can sell their company and exit for big returns on investment for both the founders and all the investors.   The joke is that it isn't a secret at all.  People + Processes = Profit.  Watch and Listen how Karl's integrated approach helps founders identify roadblocks to their ability to scale and anticipate the bottle necks and obstacles to their financial success.  Karl Maier founded Abunden to help companies to build their management operating systems so they can double their company within three years.  Growing up in a family owned business, followed by 3 decades in corporate gigs and as a consultant, Karl has worked in a wide range of roles including systems and processes, sales and business development, fina

Karen Rands the Compassionate Capitalist and Heather Havenwood, the Sexy Boss and Internet Influencer, talk about the evolution and revolution of NFTs.  Blockchain will transform business in the future the way the Internet revolutionized EVERYTHING starting in the 90s.   NFT or Non-Fungible Tokens are the key element of that.  NFTs, and how they protect the digital rights and identity of the item, on the blockchain, is so much more than a cartoon of monkey or whatever other crazy thing you have heard about. Karen and Heather cover the basics of blockchain and compare NFT to crypto currency and other blockchain applications and discuss the impact they predict it will have on business from Supply Chain to Master Mind Coaching Memberships. Heather Havenwood is a Influencer and Celebrity Entrepreneur who is on a mission to help 10,000 women to start and thrive running their own online business, to create independence and financial freedom in their lives. Heather Ann Havenwood is the Author of Best Selling Sexy Bo

There are documents that Founders and Investors need to make sure a company has in place to protect the business when critical disrupters occur. Similar to a will before you die, a business can't wait until a founder is disabled, dead, or divorced to implement these business contingency agreements. Paul Hood joins Karen Rands to talk about the events business owners and investors should anticipate and the agreements that act as insurance policies to protect the interest of the organization's stakeholders.  Paul takes the conversation a level deeper with real life examples of problems avoided and problems solved when you understand the kinds of precautions and assurance of sustainability certain agreements bring. Paul Hood considers himself a “recovering tax lawyer” with his JD from Louisiana State University and LL.M. in taxation from Georgetown University Law Center. Now, Paul helps people build a plan with a solid legal foundation to protect their estate and their biggest asset - Their Business.  Paul is a

In support and celebration of International Women's Day, and recognizing March as Women's History month, we celebrate all that it means to be a woman.  In honor of all that women have achieved and all that is yet to achieve, including real equality- in mind, body, and bank account, we looked into the Compassionate Capitalist Show Vault and rediscover this memorable interview with famed 'Sexy Boss' Heather Havenwood.  Karen and Heather have a lively chat about these 4 core topics:  Take Total Ownership Over Your Thoughts The Real Definition of Sexy Not Caring if People Think You are a B*&$h! Brand yourself with Class----Influence “Sexy Boss Inc. is all about empowering women by redefining how the rules for business and money apply to them,” Havenwood says. “You rarely hear men complaining about obstacles when it comes to succeeding in business, you don’t find men asking for permission - they just do what’s necessary to win. Heather Havenwood is the author of “Sexy Boss: How the Empowerment of Women is Chan

Angela Lee started 37 Angels to educate women about investing in entrepreneurs to create wealth as compassionate capitalists.  37 Angels is a community of women investors committed to funding early stage start-ups.  Every 2 months, they bring amazing entrepreneurs to pitch to their angel investor network, filtered from 400 startups they see every cycle.   Karen dusted off this interview from 2020 to showcase the amazing economic power and impact Angela Lee has generated with her thoughtful and informed approach to angel investing and her carefully cultivated growing community of angel investors. Angela shares her journey to become an angel investor, the passion and purpose behind starting 37 Angels 8 years ago, and the 4 Ps of evaluating a startup investment deal. They must be doing something right -- over 75 portfolio companies have generate over 13 positive exits for their investors.    Learn More at http://www.37angels.com/   and sign up for an upcoming boot camp or pitch event. Get Karen's book to get sta

Karen Rands is joined by Pharmacist by Day - Real Estate Investor by Night - Ryan Chaw, who is well on his way to becoming a self made millionaire by the age of 28 through real estate investing, with the intention to use that wealth to invest in innovation that he is passionate about.   Today you will learn how How he used college town investing and targeted advertising to create a 6 figure rental portfolio in California (even during COVID), where most houses are overpriced and cash flow is limited. How he created a reliable system for self-managing 6 single family homes while still working my full-time pharmacist job. (It involves attracting high quality tenants, tenant empowerment, and creating the right team.) The (completely avoidable) mistakes that cost him over $30K on my first investment...and how new real estate investors can make sure to avoid them. And the motivation that keeps him striving to become a true Compassionate Capitalist.   To connect with Ryan and get his free Real Estate Investor Hack

In celebration of Black History Month, we brought back Karen's popular 2 part podcast series on Black Economic Prosperity - Past Present and Future. Catch new intro and update too.  The wealth gap between white and black communities because of systemic racism and the resulting obstacle for building equity and wealth  is astounding.  This is part 2 of Karen Rands' series on Black Economic Empowerment and Prosperity.   This episode addresses the 10X prosperity gap, as reported by the Brookings Institute (AVG Black Household net worth is just $17,150 in 2016, while the average white household is $171,000) and suggests causes for that vast divide that compounded over time and builds upon the research and insights provided in Episode 1. Here, Karen discusses the cycles of prosperity for Blacks in a segregated America, often followed by violence and out right biased legislative and financial practices intended to help enrich White while prohibiting Blacks from participating in those same economic and educational op

True equality comes with economic prosperity. This is a replay of Karen's historic, informative, and popular look at The Black Lives Economic Story - Past Present & Future PT 1.  The Compassionate Capitalist Podcast will explore the history of black enterprise, and government policies intended to aid in economic prosperity, and the racist practices that created barriers and obstacles to African American prosperity so that wealth and education gap which exists today has its roots dating back to the late 1800.  History shows time and time again how naive, well intentioned white people, in the spirit of compromise, released authority and control to other white people that had a sole intent to harm and hinder black people from achieving equality - socially and economically. There are many examples of progress being made and initiatives seeking to grow black entrepreneurship, wealth creation, and reinvestment into the communities that have been neglected and abandoned.   As we look forward with these new sourc

Karen Rands, the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement, shares an update on her historic and popular podcasts Pt. 1 & Pt. 2 The Black Prosperity Story originally recorded in 2020.  To listen to the two part series click below or find them on your favorite podcast channel as sequenced podcast after this show. Compassionate Capitalist: The Black Lives Economic Story: Past, Present, Future. PT1 https://CompassionateCapitalistShow.libsyn.com/black-history-the-black-lives-economic-story-past-present-future  Compassionate Capitalist: The Black Lives Prosperity Story: Past, Present, Future PT2  https://CompassionateCapitalistShow.libsyn.com/black-economic-empowerment-and-prosperity-part-2-replay   Links referenced in the podcast.  Google Black Founders fund https://startup.google.com/blackfoundersfund/ Crunchbase Article - Venture Funding to Black Startups Quadrupled https://news.crunchbase.com/news/something-ventured-funding-to-black-startup-founders-quadrupled-in-past-year-but-remains-elusive/ We

How would you answer the question:   What would you do if you were given $100M no questions asked ?   How would you benefit the world with that gift that would compound the impact? That is what Karen was asked at a recent entrepreneur/investor event she attended.  Well not exactly.  Not the part about benefiting the world or compounding the impact.  That is just how she thinks.    As the founder of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement, it is on her heart to leave a legacy, her 'thumbprint' on the world, that amplifies wealth creation through increasing the available capital actively seeking qualified entrepreneur endeavors to invest in and produce a multiple on that money so that it can be reinvested again and again and again.  In this episode, Karen talks about the Compassionate Capitalist Movement, and the actions she would take, the programs she would create, and types of projects she would lead investment in if she was blessed with such a financial gift (or investment, or sponsorship) whether $100M, $10M

Startup entrepreneurs can feel like they are on treadmill never reaching their goal of $1M in revenue.  Even established Business Owners can feel they are in the rat race, stuck on a track, with no end in sight.  They used the investor seed capital to reach their initial milestone of millions in revenue, but feel like they are out of gas and plateaued, with no way to reach the 8 or 9 figure revenue target they need to sell their business.   With the black swan event of the pandemic, a business that is on target can derail and struggle to get back on track.   So what is an inspired, motivated, goal oriented entrepreneur to do?   Listen to this podcast for starters.  Blair Singer joins Karen Rands on the Compassionate Capitalist Show to share the principles of sales success and corporate growth strategy that he has used to elevate thousands of entrepreneurs and their business revenue.  What they talk about is the foundation for accelerated growth and revenue ramp up key to all three scenarios to get un-stuck an

On this episode of The Compassionate Capitalist Show, Nathan Beckord, Founder and CEO of Founder Suite, and Karen Rands will talk about what steps a founder needs to take to increase the odds of seed round and subsequent  funding rounds successful. The steps to complete a successful capital raise are predictable, yet most entrepreneurs make the same common mistakes.  Even with all the free resources available through economic development organizations, incubators and accellerators, and an abundance of entrepreneur programs in colleges and universities, Nathan estimates that 98% of the startup founders have no idea about how to raise capital.  And as Karen has often stated, there is a science to the art of raising capital. With over a decade of experience working with 150 startups as Interim CFO, business development, and many advisory roles, and deep experience with financial equity markets, Nathan Beckord started his own startup FounderSuite.com to provide software tools and formulized guidance to entreprene

Karen Rands provides context, prior to the replay of her popular podcast on transparency and disclosure between entrepreneurs and investors, for the fraud perpetrated by Elizabeth Holmes, Founder and CEO of Theranos, a company that sought to develop and manufacture a medical device that could identify, monitor, and deliver therapeutics for disease detected through a prick of blood. Introductory comments set the stage for lessons to be learned by all investors. Elizabeth Holmes had all the characteristics of the ideal startup founder:  visionary capable of big noble ideas intensely competitive internally motivated -strong drive and determination highly intelligent charismatic Except one: commitment to truth & transparency Yet, she had the fatal flaw that often comes along with these other characteristics, which can hide underneath the surface only to reveal itself when faced with undeniable defeat:           + total inability to accept and admit failure, due to a fragile ego and innate since of entitleme

Think It, Be It Founder, John Mitchell, joins Karen Rands on The Compassionate Capitalist Show to share the Science of Success.  Feeling stuck, John used tried and true, but often overlooked, methods to figure out his personal breakthrough to go from earning a few hundred thousand a year to growing his own business to $5M in Revenue, and a big windfall when he sold it at a $25M valuation. John discovered the disconnect between his efforts and the results that had been holding him back - the beliefs locked into his unconscious mind.   John shares with Karen how he used science to amplify his (and our) innate ability to succeed when we apply science to align our conscious goals and objectives with the 'auto-pilot' manifestations of desires and action by our sub-conscious mind.   John Mitchell's 12 min a day program takes the principals of the famed Think & Grow Rich book by Napoleon Hill, and puts them into an actionable and relevant framework to chart your way to your ideal life of health, happiness and pr