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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 i...

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 m...

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 inf...

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 limite...

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-pas...

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 t...

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 beli...

You can't save yourself to wealthy. You must make your money compound to create wealth. If we accept that the greatest way to create wealth is by starting/owning a successful business, then we must agree that the next best way is to be the investor in that successful company. Karen Rands is joined by Aryeh Sheinbein for this episode of Compassionate Capitalist Show to talk about creating generational wealth by owning and investing in private businesses. During their conversation, they touch on S...

Fear is the biggest killer of momentum and a sneaky thing that lingers in the dark recesses of our hearts and minds to limit our subconscious belief that we can achieve what we have set out as our 'big thing' with the business we are starting or growing. Investors often can check all the right boxes when it comes to evaluating the potential of a business investment, with the one big variable that can't be predicted: "Does (Do) the Founder(s) have what it takes to LEAD the company to a profitable...