Crissi Cole

❗️Critical Compliance for Fund and Asset Manager Marketers: How do you stay compliant while implementing digital marketing and AI to elevate your fundraising? ➡️ Join us at the Revenue Revolution Symposium at the Questrom School of Business, Boston University to explore this and other critical business development issues in the digital age. 🎤 Featured Speaker: Derek Stern, Head of Global Distribution Compliance at Manulife Investment Management and John Hancock, and a panel of legal and compliance experts will provide crucial insights on navigating compliance in our online era: 1️⃣ Compliant Growth Strategies - Explore techniques to expand your digital presence and engage investors without crossing regulatory boundaries. 2️⃣ Surviving the New SEC Marketing Rule - Understand how to optimize your marketing strategies while complying with the latest regulations. 3️⃣ Thriving under multiple regulators - Learn how to grow your business while complying across multiple jurisdictions and regulations. 📍 Event Details: Join us on May 29, in Boston or online, for this groundbreaking symposium, sponsored by the Digital Business Institute BU. 📅 Act with Urgency: The regulatory landscape is swiftly evolving—stay ahead of the curve. Register now: https://lnkd.in/eYynjitW #DigitalMarketing #Compliance #AssetManagement #QuestromMeansBusiness #DigitalRevolution

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In honor of #worldmentalhealthday, this hits home. We all have a view of ourselves that we want to reinforce, preserve, and uphold. And admitting we struggle can feel like showing an uncacceptable weakness. Yet vulnerability is strength. And searching within will provide more insight than searching without ever will. Sadness, anxiety, and grief just mean you’re human, amongst a sea of humans who are more alike than different, and who are all looking for connection and belonging. Ask for help. Find a therapist. Find a support group. Build a community yourself if what you’re looking for doesn’t exist. When you show vulnerability and honesty, you’ll be amazed how many conversations it opens, and connections it can build And ultimately, how looking for help and being open about it, breaks down the stigma for others who also need it.

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Backstage Capital's founders' stories are a testament to the transformative power of diversity and inclusion in venture capital. Backstage has invested $ millions in over 200 companies led by women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ founders. Thank you to our many investors over the years who have helped us create change where it's needed most in venture. This video represents just a small fraction of the number of lives you have touched. I've personally invested and donated the majority of my net worth and liquid assets into Backstage, and am currently the 3rd largest Backstage investor by $ amount, second to Mark Cuban and Holly Levow. Together, Backstage's portfolio founders and investors have created countless jobs, launched innovative products, and broken barriers. Our community continues to push boundaries and redefine possibilities. For the first time in 10 years, we are able to receive your tax-deductible donation to further these efforts. Your support enables us to continue backing game-changing founders who are often overlooked and underestimated. Check out the video and see the difference your support can make. Let’s continue to create generational wealth, foster innovation, and build a more inclusive future together. Donate: https://lnkd.in/g7yheVvp Invest: https://lnkd.in/gdnUrUdv #BackstageCapital #InvestInDiversity #VentureCapital #InclusiveInnovation #DonateNow #GenerationalWealth

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In a recent episode of H/L Ventures' For Starters, we pointed out that 70% of unicorns have at least one founder from an underrepresented group. As we said then, it highlights how having diverse viewpoints involved can spark innovation and growth. Despite this, new research shows a major funding gap for diverse women and minorities. Racially diverse, all-female startup founding teams with minorities spent the longest time fundraising in 2023 at an average of 25 weeks, a 67% increase from 2022. By comparison, all-male teams secured more funding and at a faster pace. What can be done to address this gap? #Investing #Diversity #Startups

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I'm very excited to announce the official launch of my impact investment fund know.capital with a $250,000 donation to the Drexel Food Lab which was founded by the omnipotent and super human Jonathan Deutsch, Ph.D., CHE, CRC at Drexel University in 2014. These funds will help build out the physical plant at the lab which will expand its capacity and capabilities to work deeper with industry both large and small, and also create more amazing experiential opportunities for Drexel's undergrad, grad, and certificate students. Jon truly runs a unique and impactful program at Drexel University's College of Nursing and Health Professions, and I can't think of a better partner with whom to embark on this journey. know.capital is an investment fund that invests at least 2/3 of our fee revenue profits in creating and operating unique nonprofit and for-profit social impact initiatives while pursuing maximum return strategies for our investors who bear no financial sacrifice for our philanthropic work. I've been working on this for 12 years (no one has accused me of working fast), and this is a culmination of countless mistakes and trial and error, and just pain and suffering (honestly). And there is more discomfort ahead of course. The pain points that I'm addressing are two fold: 1) "impact investing" is ill-defined and the impact side of the equation is unclear, and 2) nonprofits suffer from structural liabilities of fragmentation, governance structure, and fundraising dynamic that potentially compromise the pursuit of their missions and their ultimate impact. These two pain points have to be addressed concurrently since there is no other mechanism that I've been able to come up other than what I know best (Wall Street's fee business model) that can act as a sustainable funding source for needed social solutions that may not have any ROI prospects. And we need to pay nonprofit professionals more if we are to attract the best talent. We can't ask people to sacrifice "for the greater good" when they are often doing thankless work, getting paid pauper wages, and worrying whether or not they can retire with any level of financial security. From an investor's point of view, it's important to point out that this is not a zero sum equation. We're just offering another solution to investors who may care about also making a social impact of some kind, but with no financial sacrifice (have cake and eat it too). One can still have a traditional wealth manager and investments, one can still donate money to a worthy nonprofit or a university endowment, etc. We just want to expand the pie of what social impact investing and philanthropy could mean, create solutions that can potentially be massively scalable, and direct capital and world-class talent to initiatives that can potentially make the world a better place. Imagine if "Wall Street" can do that. More to come!

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