Blog Posts
The Angel Capital Association 2021 Summit—is there any hope?
Have you ever attended a conference and felt so at home—like the attendees are really your people? When I go to the Angel Capital Association conference, I feel exactly the opposite! Most...
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5-Day Challenge: Create a Golden Opportunity for Investors
We just wrapped up a LIVE 5-day challenge—Create a Golden Opportunity for Investors: How to Design a Win-Win Investment Offering. It was awesome! Hundreds of people joined the challenge where we...
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Fundraising Tips from Dan Fireside, Capital Coordinator at Equal Exchange
Equal Exchange is a worker-cooperative that sells Fair Trade coffee, chocolate, and other staples. They created a revolutionary way of raising money from investors. Investors receive non-voting...
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Angels of Main Street is one year old and growing fast!
A little over a year ago, Crowdfund Mainstreet CEO Michelle Thimesch and I had a crazy idea—create an angel group for EVERYBODY! The traditional definition of an angel investor is a wealthy person...
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Major changes for maximum impact
Dear Community, This is my last blog post for 2019, and I want to thank you for all your support this year. As we work to change the face of investment in our country, your outpouring of love for...
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Go Ahead, Get Invested! The power of community investing
Local businesses are the touchstone of our communities. And in the last decade, social entrepreneurship and community investing have moved from fringe experiments to mainstream ideas. Together,...
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2019 Social Venture Circle Conference Highlights
I have been attending Social Venture Circle (fka Social Venture Network) conferences for about 10 years, and they never disappoint. These conferences attract business and finance leaders of all ages...
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Stop Bootstrapping, Stop Leaning In, and Organize
It used to be that only men were called entrepreneurs.1 But women have been entrepreneurs for a long time.2 We have opened and run businesses out of necessity, passion, and genius. We’ve had...
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Will it turn investors off if you tell them about your mission?
I’ve talked to many entrepreneurs who have told me they deemphasize the mission of their business when talking to investors. They assume that investors care most about financial returns, and they...
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Do you have to give up control of your company if you raise capital?
So many of us have heard horror stories of founders giving up control to investors and then being pushed to do things with their business they didn’t want to do or even getting fired from their own...
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