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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...

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 Owners...

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 infor...

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 limi...

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 Insti...

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...

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-p...

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, ...

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 ...

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 abundan...

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 chara...