Investment Readiness: How To Find the Right Investor with Don Simmons

Avant-Garde Entrepreneur

10/03/23 • 53 min

Is your social impact business ready for investors? Do you know where to find the right investor?

Today's episode is the first part of a two-part series on Investment Readiness, and we kick off this conversation with someone who has been putting his money where his heart guides him for almost 40 years, Don Simmons. Don is the Founder and CEO of the Steward Advisors Group, is the Author of the life-changing book "The Steward Investor," and is the kind of investor who prioritizes maximum societal transformation over RoR (rate of returns).

Getting access to financial capital depends not only on how organized your social impact business is, how good your MVP (Minimum Viable Product) is, or even if you have a smooth data and accountability mechanism, you must also find the right investor. Still, to make this match made in heaven a reality, you must know where to look for.

Tune in and listen to the forty-second episode of the Avant-Garde Entrepreneur podcast. You will learn what exactly investors look for in social enterprises, what details make impact businesses irresistible to them, and what ponds you should fish on to get the right investor for your company. Don also shares his experiences as a lifelong investor, his favorite social impact businesses to work with, advice for the new generations of social entrepreneurs, and much more.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

A bit about Don's background and experience as an impact business investor (3:20)
How to get your MVP on point (10:20)
There are two types of investors (16:50)
How to discover the perfect investors' network for you (27:40)
Don talks about the kind of social impact businesses he likes to work with (34:30)

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