Capital Conversations

Capital Conversations with Erik & Karen - Launch Episode

Welcome to "Capital Conversations," the LinkedIn LIVE podcast where we demystify the art of fundraising for privately held and publicly traded companies. Join us each week as Karen Rands and Erik Nelson explore strategies for raising capital, preparing for initial public offerings (IPOs), and equipping investors with the tools to valuate growth potential. Erik & Karen's my professional alliance and friendship is decades long. They will be talking about the mistakes that business owners make in raising capital, going public, and staying public, wondering why it seems the same mistakes are made again and again. Part of it is because the rules are always changing, the other part is that they just don't know what they don't know. We decided to change that with are weekly podcast. I hope you will join us. Each episode is scheduled for an hour to allow time for Q&A from our listening audience, but the main programming is targeted at half hour. Each episode will offer insights from our own real-world experiences, and then expand as we bring on guest speakers and panelists. Our goal is give you actionable take-aways and worthwhile 'aha' moments to put to work now, or add to your planning for raising capital or getting to an exit. Whether you're a business owner seeking capital, an established public company, or thinly traded company struggling to stay public, or an investor wondering how your investment in that private company can get to an exit - tune in for lively conversation between to friends that are 'old hats' in the space of finance, corporate compliance, and investing.