Blog Posts
April is National Financial Literacy Month! Is That a Good Thing?
It’s the time of year when you may hear politicians wringing their hands about the low levels of financial literacy in our country and advocating for teaching financial literacy in our schools.While...
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Why Access to Capital is Not Evenly Distributed: Racism and Finance
What is finance? Finance is the use of money to fund activities in the economy. These activities include everything from building buildings and starting businesses to buying stock in public...
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What Businesses and Investors Can & Can’t Discuss: Six Guidelines for Business-Investor Conversations
By Jenny Kassan and Michael H. Shuman What kinds of conversations can a business owner have with potential investors without breaking the law? Over the past year many local investment advocates and...
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What if I told you the only thing standing in the way of large-scale prosocial economic development was you?
Few people know about the potential of Investment Crowdfunding to save the middle class and bring back the unique character and charm of our individual states, cities, and towns. Investment...
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Closing the gaps in the regenerative investment ecosystem
My colleagues and I are on a mission to create a robust infrastructure and ecosystem that will make regenerative community investing easy, seamless, accessible to all, and fun! To this end, we have...
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When it Comes to Investment Crowdfunding—Compliance Matters!
What to Know Before You Take the Plunge The investment crowdfunding marketplace is growing faster than ever before, and is projected to grow by $196.36 billion from 2021 to 2025. Unfortunately,...
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Three Keys to Escape the Bootstrap Trap
You may have been bootstrapping for a while now—using your personal resources to fund your business and hoping that eventually you will be able to break even and start paying yourself and buying the...
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What could possibly go wrong? Using due diligence to make investment decisions
Due diligence, a fancy term for doing reasonable research, is a key component in the process of evaluating any investment opportunity. While there are no set rules for the due diligence process, due...
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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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You don’t have to sell your company for your investors to exit!
When you raise money from investors, many of them will want to know how they may someday get their money back out of your company. When people invest in public companies, it is very easy to exit...
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