Serving Minority Entrepreneurs with Xiomara Pena Tackling small business development is a challenging task, especially when you take the sheer size of states like California into account. But small business development in a general sense does n

A Law Firm You Will Love

Jul 26th, 2017 45m 26s

A Law Firm You Will Love with Janelle Orsi Navigating the law in the US can be a daunting task. All too often, legal help is simply out of reach for most entrepreneurs and citizens who want to foster positive change in their community. It can

Local Investing in Vermont

Jul 13th, 2017 49m 46s

Local Investing in Vermont with Janice Shade The story of Milk Money Vermont takes one state, two motivated entrepreneurs, hundreds of cups of coffee, and unlike your typical caffeinated afternoon, the inspiration and plan to create a state-bas

Working With City Government with Timothy Barrett

Jun 20th, 2017 51m 59s

Working With City Government with Timothy Barrett In this episode of ComCap The Podcast, Amy Pearl sits down with Timothy Barrett, Councilmember for the City of Monterey, CA. After attending ComCap16 last Spring here in Portland, OR, Timothy

Main Street Funds with Craig Scharton

Jun 15th, 2017 50m 34s

Main Street Funds with Craig Sharton In towns across the USA, Main Street is often a primary indicator on the state of the economics within the region. This is where businesses thrive in a vibrant uptime, and shutter in the challenging downtu

The Blue Economy with Jason Scorse

Jun 8th, 2017 51m 56s

The Blue Economy with Jason Scorse Have you ever sat down by the waters of your favorite river or scenic coastline, and imagined your relationship to all that water? It turns out that layers of complexity are hiding in plain sight, if the rig

Slow Money with Woody Tasch

Jun 1st, 2017 1h 2m

Slow Money with Woody Tasch Have you ever wondered what happens when you mix finance and poetry together? The answer is Slow Money, founded by Woody Tasch. Slow Money began as an idea, grew to a gathering, and now has issued over $57 million

Economic Development Business Networks

May 16th, 2017 1h 7m

Economic Development Business Networks In this episode of ComCap The Podcast, we revisit the 2016 ComCap conference session “Working With State Economic Develop Business Networks”. Led by Noah Brockman, this panel dives into the tools of the e

A Recipe for Crowdfunding

May 10th, 2017 39m 45s

A Recipe for Crowdfunding with PieShell founder Cheryl Clements In this episode of ComCap The Podcast, Amy Pearl sits down with Cheryl Clements, founder of the rewards based crowdfunding platform, PieShell. Cheryl founded PieShell as a way to

From Buy Local to Invest Local

May 5th, 2017 57m 36s

In this episode of ComCap The Podcast, we revisit the 2016 ComCap conference session “How to Make the Shift From Buy Local to Invest Local”. Led by Michael Shuman, this panel of entrepreneurs discuss strategies they employ to help change the

The Future Of Social Enterprise Funding

Apr 28th, 2017 1h 3m

The Future Of Social Enterprise Funding In this episode of ComCap The Podcast, we revisit the 2016 ComCap conference session “The Future of Social Enterprise Funding”. A social enterprise is an organization or initiative that marries the s

Big Game Hunting with Michael Shuman

Apr 21st, 2017 22m 46s

CCTP4 Big Game Hunting with Michael Shuman A clear-eyed review of the past practices of going after big companies rather than developing local companies.Michael Shuman takes a deep look at classic economic development strategies. He describes w

Local Stock Exchanges with John Katovich

Apr 12th, 2017 45m 3s

Local Stock Exchanges with John Katovich and Amy Pearl Are local stock exchanges the answer to the local investing question? Learn why the answer is likely no. John Katovich of Cutting Edge Capital takes us on a journey starting from high hop

Understanding Money with Marco Vangelisti

Apr 7th, 2017 29m 59s

CCTP3 Understanding Money with Marco Vangelisti How does the financial system work? Who creates money? Why is it important for us to understand how money is made? We simply do not understand where our money comes from and how it’s created. Joi

A Crowdfunding Exit with Scott Wise, Amy Cortese, and Ryan Flynn

Mar 29th, 2017 36m 16s

CCTP2 - A Crowdfunding Exit with Scott Wise, Amy Cortese, and Ryan Flynn "Scotty’s Brewhouse in Indiana has become the first intrastate crowdfunding exit. After raising money through Indiana’s intrastate crowdfunding exemption in 2014, Scotty’s

Introduction to Community Capital

Mar 28th, 2017 24m 43s

"The Community Capital revolution is unfolding across this country. From small towns to metropolitan city centers, localizing our money to strengthen communities has become a rallying cry for food cart vendors in Detroit, small manufacturers i

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