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Listen to learn how to develop software according to what an Investor really wants - Prototype, Requirements Document, Wireframe, Figma or MVP - Minimum Viable Product. Edie Woelfle, Founder of KeiBoarder, joins Karen Rands on this episode of the Compassionate Capitalist Show(tm) to share her insights to help eliminate some of the confusion on the value and functional purpose of these 5 elements of the design and development of a software solution. Edie and Karen also delve into the value of so...

Neeti Dewan joins Karen Rands on the Compassionate Capitalist Show to talk about leadership impact on the financial bottom line of business. We are familiar with these 5 styles of leadership: Authoritarian | Participative | Delegative | Transactional | Transformational Neeti introduces the impact of Joyful Leadership on employee retention and productivity and developing your Power of Silence as an effective leadership tool. Neeti Dewan is an Author, Key Note Speaker, Global Finance & Tax Leade...

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 produc...

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 a...

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 Venture...

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 worke...

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' c...

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'...

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...

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 hea...

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 st...