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by Karen Rands (Author)
This book will give you the Inside Secrets of how the rich get richer by investing in entrepreneurs, funding innovation, and generating job growth.
Everything we know about investing in private companies, owning a part of multiple companies without operating them, has changed.
Never before has there been a better time to invest in private companies to help bring innovation to the market, create jobs, and create wealth.
We call that Compassionate Capitalism.
One Inside Secret:
The point is that the wealthy smart investor, the "millionaire next door," has already made his or her money before the public knows the company exists to put their order into their stockbroker. He or she is an an active Angel Investor that invests in private companies, in addition to real estate and public stocks.
The buzz is about CrowdFunding. Angel Investing is more than that. Angel Investing can create passive income, even generational wealth if you learn to invest like a venture capitalist - with discipline and specific intent.
Why buy this book?
Karen will take you through the history of angel investing, the economic impact and the trends that drive the market, and even the regulations that create a bubble or pop it. She describes the role that angel investors can play in an entrepreneur endeavor, depending on the amount of time and money they have available to invest. Karen has even made the whole process of finding deals, evaluating them, and ultimately closing the deal easy to understand by comparing it to how we find a mate - from introduction, to the first date, courtship and ultimately marriage -or not;).
With over 300 pages, this book is full of practical information, keen insights, applicable quotes from industry experts, and detailed next steps in each chapter.
If you have thought about diversifying your investment portfolio beyond real estate and traditional stocks & bonds, and desire to have a real impact on bringing innovation to the market and creating jobs as a crowdfund investor or angel investor, this book is a must have.
Author Biography
Karen Y. Rands is a Venture Catalyst, a Compassionate Capitalist, Economist, Investor, and Entrepreneur. She is the Leader and Advocate for the Compassionate Capitalist Movement.
She believes entrepreneurism is the greatest source for wealth creation. "You don't have to be a successful entrepreneur to create generational wealth if you can learn how to invest in those companies that have the potential to be the next big thing", according to Karen. With the recent deregulation, investors of all types have the opportunity to own a piece of an 'up & coming' successful company before they go public or get acquired by a bigger company.
Karen has been described as a dominant force in the entrepreneur and investor markets with her blog, published articles, frequent speaking engagements, and her Compassionate Capitalist radio show. She has been a frequent speaker and mentor within numerous Small Business and Economic Development initiatives and was the recipient of the Advocate of the Year award in 2016 at the Flight to Freedom Summit in San Ramon, California, for her work to promote Compassionate Capitalism.
Karen left the corporate world over a decade ago, having been involved with many product launches, to pursue her passion for seeing innovation funded and to help the entrepreneur and investor community she served create thriving businesses. Karen immersed herself in the world of angel investing, first as the protégé to the founder of the Network of Business Angels & Investors (NBA&I), and then as the Managing Director to reboot the angel network with improved structure and processes. She interviewed hundreds of angel investors and venture capitalists over the years and developed the "Learn to be an Angel Investor" free e-book series. That reboot led to NBA&I being named one of the most active angel groups in the Southeast in 2009 and listed on Inc Magazine's top 50 angel groups in the U.S. NBA&I was sunset in 2012 and reemerged as the National Network of Angel Investors (NNOAI). Inside Secrets to Angel Investing is the updated version of her original "Learn to be an Angel Investor" e-book series and is the catalyst for the Compassionate Capitalist Movement.
Karen defines "Compassionate Capitalist" as: A person who invests time, resources, knowledge, experience, AND money into an entrepreneurial endeavor to bring innovation to market, create jobs, and ultimately create wealth for the investors and founders.
