Blog Posts
Building an Inclusive Workforce with Second-Chance Hiring
Working Fields Offers a Path to Employment and Confidence to Formerly Incarcerated People and Those in Recovery Mickey Wiles is the CEO and Founder of Working Fields, a mission-driven...
read moreBuilding a Strategy to Fund Your Business On Your Terms
In this video, The Kassan Group founder Jenny Kassan outlines six important steps to designing your fundraising strategy. Funding is an essential element of starting a business, but figuring out the...
read moreHow to Find the Right Investors for Your Small Business
In this video, Jenny Kassan describes a way to raise money for your business that lets you stay true to your goals and values and keeps you in control. Every business needs funding to get off the...
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Three Insights from My Trip to Baltimore to Meet Potential Investors
I recently returned from a trip to Baltimore where Michelle Thimesch and I met with several potential investors for Opportunity Main Street, our place-based investment fund. I love the process of...
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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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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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Should you provide anti-dilution protection for your equity investors?
Anti-dilution protection is a set of provisions that you can include in your governing document (articles or certificate of incorporation) that are designed to protect equity investors in the case...
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