Legal Compliance Options for Raising Capital
To choose the right legal compliance strategy for your raise, you need to ask yourself four questions: Do I want to be able to publicly advertise the fact that I'm looking for investors? Do I want to include everyone as potential investors or limit myself to...
Exploring Non-VC Funding Models
Jenny Kassan was recently interviewed in B Corp's "B the Change" series, a collection of stories of people using business as a force for good. In this Q&A, Jenny shares her perspective and advice on why and how social entrepreneurs can escape the "bootstrap trap"...
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 raising money for my own business because I always learn so much that I...
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 Crowdfunding is a newer tool that allows the American people to fund the...
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 put many pieces in place: legal/coaching services (Jenny Kassan...
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, industry watchers have observed an alarming level of non-compliance with...
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 things your business really needs. The symptoms of being in the...
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 diligence is expected to be conducted by investors and can be a...
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 of the people I meet there don’t understand why anyone would be...
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 from one investment to another—they just tell their online broker to sell...