One of the Inside Secrets of the Wealthy, true Compassionate Capitalists, is this notion of a 'family office'. Family offices differ from a high networth individual who hires professional service providers with multiple clients, to advise them about investment, tax and legal matters. Ultra high net worth families, with generational…
Failures are common in business and investing. "Failures" are lessons that we learn from so we can be better, smarter, stronger... my guest today Rod Khleif calls them "SEMINARS". The Seminars of life that we learn from to be better at what we are striving to do. Some people are…
Kate Kordsmeier shares her tips, tactics, and insights into generating revenue from a blog -- as the primary business or as a lead generating machine. "Blogs" have been around so long, that 'bloggers' aren't cool like 'micro-influencers' these days. Yet, as Kate Kordsmeier discusses with Karen Rands on this episode…
Time is precious. No matter how much money you make, you can't buy more time. Once it passes, it is no longer a resource to be tapped to enjoy leisure, get work done, or spend with loved ones. Everything revolves around the concept of time. Why is a work week…
Karen Rands shares the 'inside secret' to her business venture review process. For over a decade she used this proprietary method for assessing the risk of investing in startup and early stage entrepreneur business opportunities for the angel investors in her angel investor group, Network of Business & Angel Investors.…
Florida's Commissioner and the Office of Financial Regulation (OFR), Russell Weigel, III, joins Karen Rands to talk about the access to capital for Florida businesses from private investors. In many ways, Florida has a vibrant angel investor community and a growing presence of venture capitalists expanding into Florida to invest…
Whether you call it a self-fulfilling prophecy or expectancy effect, your internal view of yourself doesn’t let you exceed your "deserve" level – we get in life what we (subconsciously) believe we deserve. Henry Ford described it aptly, “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right.” Ed…
Tom Perrone of New England Consulting Group of Guilford (NECGGINC) joins Karen to talk about the business blue print to go from a startup's Survival Stage to the Stable Stage of business that is necessary to establish the value and the consistent positive cash to get to Growth Stage and…
Few people predicted a global pandemic would be the black swan event of the decade, even a generation. It has forever changed many business processes, the future of work, and the perception of a company's greatest asset. The pandemic has taught us a very valuable lesson-- people are a companies…
Sharon Lechter, coauthor of Exit Rich, joins Karen Rands to talk about the 6Ps and how entrepreneurs can start right and build a business that will enable the founders and their investors to exit rich from when it is time to sell their business. An unfortunate reality of business ownership…
Chris Larson of Next Level Income joins Karen Rands to talk about building a wealth portfolio that includes real estate and private equity from innovative entrepreneurs - Angel Investing. Karen & Chris discuss how Chris built a substantial real estate portfolio, which includes syndications valued at over $225 Million real…