The Angel Next Door Podcast

The Angel Next Door podcast is a show about how people got started investing in startup companies. Hosted by Marcia Dawood, member of the SEC Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee, Chair Emeritus of the board of the Angel Capital Association, the professional organization of angel investors across the US and globally, and author of Do Good While Doing Well. If you want to see change in the world you have to create it, invest in it or be it! Tune in to hear stories of what angel investing is, who does it and why!

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  • • 9/12/24

    Expanding Accessibility and Awareness: The Future of Private Market Investing

    In this thought-provoking episode of The Angel Next Door Podcast, we explore the world of entrepreneurship and the potential of innovative technologies to transform the way we invest and participate in private markets. Our guest, Kendrick Nguyen, is the founder of Republic.com, an equity crowdfunding platform that aims to democratize access to private market investing. With a background in law and traditional finance, Kendrick's journey into the world of tech entrepreneurship was sparked by changes in securities laws related to crowdfunding in the United States.

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  • • 4/25/24

    Crowdfunding for the Main Street

  • • 2/2/23

    Jake Whitman talks fundraising through accredited investors and equity crowdfunding

    On this week’s episode of The Angel Next Door, listeners get a taste of what it takes to build a brand and raise capital as Marcia sits down with angel investor-turned-entrepreneur Jake Whitman. After a successful career with Procter & Gamble and working for SoFi in the SF Bay Area, Jake decided to head to Cincinnati with the objective of buying a company. There he joined Queen City Angels as an angel investor but then decided to enter the entrepreneurial world and start Really Good Boxed Wine.

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    • 1/5/23

    Howard Marks demystifies equity crowdfunding

    Marcia Dawood sits down with Howard Marks, CEO and cofounder of the crowdfunding platform StartEngine. StartEngine is an equity crowdfunding platform that recently acquired SeedInvest, bringing the total amount raised between the platforms to over $1 billion. Howard discusses how he started as an entrepreneur with his roommate at the University of Michigan, and purchased a controlling stake in the video game company Activision and turned it into the industry leading company it is today, leading to a purchase offer from Microsoft of $68 billion.

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  • • 12/2/21

    Brian Scott talks Crowdfunding

    In this week's episode we are talking all about crowdfunding! Marcia Dawood sits down with CEO of PittMoss, Brian Scott as he tells us the ins and outs of this newer way of raising capital.

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