What is a Vegan Financial Organizing Community?
Today we discuss some of the essential elements of a community, and how Vegan Launch is different from virtually every financial website, vegan or otherwise. Join Vegan Launch!
Feb 01, 2022•7 min
Mark Winstein
I mentor people of all types and interests on how to achieve their personal and leadership goals. I believe that if more people follow their dreams, the world will naturally become more peaceful and take care of itself. If you are following your dreams, I would love to help you achieve them!
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Episodes
Creating a Powerful Elevator Pitch
Vegan Launch founder Mark Winstein discusses how to create a powerful Elevator Pitch that evokes clear images in the mind of potential investors. Join Vegan Launch!
Jan 26, 2022•5 min
Mark Winstein speaks with Michaela Kennedy at the Vegan Heart Business Summit
Q&A style discussion covering vegan investing, peace-based economy, and more! Take our free Capitalism for Activists course at Vegan Launch!
Nov 22, 2021•51 min
How Elon Musk used the NASDAQ as his personal investment crowdfunding platform
Key to Tesla's current success was Elon Musk's ability to use the NASDAQ to raise billions of new capital for Tesla. However, he first risked $80 million of his own personal fortune to build Tesla to the minimum level needed to successfully raise "public venture capital". Thanks to new US financial regulations that became effective in March 2021, today's visionary founders can seamlessly raise their first $80 million in capital starting from scratch using the public venture capital techniques we...
Nov 18, 2021•6 min
Capitalism for Activists – Mobilizing $1 Trillion to Veganize the World
This summer, we pivoted Vegan Launch to build the kind of enterprise I always wanted. We now have a vegan Financial Organizing and Education Community and tech platform that is truly ready for people to use create the world we dream of as vegans. In today's show, I lay out our best peace-based strategies to move $1 trillion of investment capital into the vegan economy by 2025. Enjoy, and be sure to visit veganlaunch.com !
Nov 11, 2021•58 min
How distributed finance can help build a peace-based society
Now that we have a basic understanding of FinTech and digital currency, and new finance laws, it is easier to see that we already have all the tools in hand to address urgent global challenges at scale. The main ingredient needed to that is the rapid training of citizen financial leaders around the world who can effectively use these tools, the Vegan Launch community platform and all the current and rapidly evolving technology platforms associated with modern finance, to bring money to where it ...
Sep 19, 2021•14 min
The rise of digital currency
The growing acceptance of crypto currencies is another aspect of the future of distributed finance that holds great potential to build a culture that respects animals, people, and the planet. Naturally, the old guard of the financial system have begun their attempts to control, regulate, and manipulate this new form of currency into a version that complies with old financial concepts that are no match for today's massive and urgent issues. We explore the significance of digital currency, and giv...
Sep 19, 2021•9 min
The rise of FinTech
We trace the progression of our monetary system in response to our rapidly transforming technology systems. As the cost to conduct financial transactions moves closer and closer to zero, the cost of transacting securities offers is also plummeting. These two trends have lowered the bar tremendously for people who wish to participate in the field of finance, including early-stage ethical and impact investing. From our FREE online course, Capitalism for Activists ....
Sep 19, 2021•20 min
A brief history of money and central banks
As western societies transitioned from primarily agrarian to industrial cultures, new financial systems were deemed necessary to manage financial power sharing among the ruling class. The US Federal Reserve central bank and other central banks can best be understood as a 100 year old approach to 100 year old problems. Effectively addressing today's urgent issues of animal rights, ecosystem devastation, and deteriorating human health requires an understanding of the both the old system of central...
Sep 19, 2021•11 min
A brief history of capitalism
When we understand capitalism as an evolutionary step from feudalism, we can also grasp the greater expansion of financial power sharing that is happening around the globe today. From our FREE online course, Capitalism for Activists .
Sep 19, 2021•5 min
Money, Hard Power, and Soft Power
Money is a tokenization of various aspects of human relationships. One of the main tokenizations is the human drive for power. In this podcast, we consider two main forms of human power, "hard power" which is brute force, and "soft power" which is cultural alignment growing from individual self-determination and self-interest. From our FREE online course, Capitalism for Activists .
Sep 19, 2021•9 min
Case Study - Beyond Meat Private and Public Valuation History
We examine private investment rounds and the public "retail" trading history of Beyond Meat to help vegan investors gain new insights into early stage investing, and what is changing now that the public can once again invest freely in startups. From our FREE online course, Capitalism for Activists .
Sep 15, 2021•16 min
Public Venture Capital Methods
We discuss the practical, detailed application of today's modern startup capital regulations for growing vegan startups and leveraging early stage investment capital. This information is vital to all investors, and can also help managers of larger capital pools maximize their financial and vegan gains relative to the conventional finance methods currently being applied by most all vegan venture capital firms, family offices, and high net worth individuals. From our FREE online course, Capitalism...
Sep 05, 2021•9 min
Compressing the vegan future timeline
The outdated capitalization methods resulting from the Securities Act of 1933 have thwarted the growth of all startups by forcing them to raise capital in secret via private investment rounds. Now that founders have the option to raise startup capital publicly, vegan companies can get double duty from their capital raising efforts, building brand awareness in a far more compressed timeframe than what is possible via the highly linear, sequential capitalization methods that have been used for nea...
Sep 05, 2021•5 min
Capital Marketing As Mass Education
Now that it is once again legal to market investment offers in startups to the general public, we can use modern finance laws and platforms to educate the general public about the benefits of veganism while we raise capital for vegan startups. From our FREE online course, Capitalism for Activists .
Sep 05, 2021•7 min
Foundation - The Liquidity Tidal Wave
"Liquidity" is the ability to easily convert an asset into cash. The Securities Act 1933 turned equity in startups from a highly liquid asset into a highly illiquid asset. With new laws, rules, and regulations starting in 2012, liquidity in startup equity is becoming increasingly liquid. It is imperative that vegan investors understand this enormous change in the playing field so that we use today's more progressive finance laws to maximize vegan outcomes. From our FREE online course, Capitalism...
Sep 05, 2021•16 min
Launch future enterprises today!
The hardest part of creating large-scale economic transformation is simply getting started launching and growing the companies today that we can clearly see will exist in the future we are creating. The secret ingredient is "commitment". From our FREE online course, Capitalism for Activists .
Sep 03, 2021•13 min
What kinds of enterprises will exist?
When values change and conditions change, the economy changes as well to serve the new reality. Knowing that, we can envision the lifestyles of the future and kinds of enterprises and activities that people will be doing. If we can envision a vegan world, we can also envision the full scale and scope of the vegan economy. From our FREE online course, Capitalism for Activists .
Sep 03, 2021•12 min
Visualize future conditions
The first step in solving large challenges is to visualize the world in which the challenge is solved. This is because we "create from our state". When we hold the vision that we are aiming for, our intuition will provide the seemingly unknown steps that we must take to arrive at the destination. From our FREE online course, Capitalism for Activists .
Sep 03, 2021•8 min
Changing the conventional models of change
Most movements are stuck in old conflict and struggle based paradigms of progress. Using finance as a platform for activism allows for the creation of new peace and agreement based approaches to societal change. From our FREE online course, Capitalism for Activists .
Sep 03, 2021•7 min
Transforming the Values Economy
The majority of the monetized economies are values-based economies, not survival-based economies. Because values are so dynamic, capitalism has historically been used effectively to transform values at a cultural scale in "modern" economies. Can we now follow a similar change model to accelerate the adoption of vegan ethical values throughout the world? From our FREE online course, Capitalism for Activists .
Sep 03, 2021•13 min
Money & Commitment
To be effective in using finance to create vegan ethical change in cultural, it's crucial to have a clear, foundational understanding money. We dive into that here. From our FREE online course, Capitalism for Activists .
Sep 03, 2021•10 min
Why do movements often fail to accomplish their goals?
If we wish to address today’s “mega-challenges”, it’s vital to understand why common movement dynamics often limit a movement’s ability to thoroughly resolve the issues they care about most. From our FREE online course, Capitalism for Activists .
Sep 02, 2021•9 min
How do movements grow and create change?
We look at the basics of how movements start, grow, and typically produce results. Part of our free online course, Capitalism for Activists .
Sep 02, 2021•4 min
What is an Activist?
This is the first topic in our free online course, Capitalism for Activists . We begin by establishing a simple working definition of Activism.
Sep 02, 2021•4 min
New Testing the Waters rules - why they matter to vegan investors
On March 15, 2021, new US financial rules became effective allowing businesses to "test the waters" before committing to raising capital under Regulation Crowdfunding. This is a massive game changer, allowing Vegan Launch to act as an "investment banker" for investors who are able to invest $100 or more!
May 26, 2021•7 min
Response to HyperChange - Funding Seaspiracy solutions businesses and remaking government policies
I'm a big fan of HyperChange, a modern finance and investing channel. The creator Gali was recently interviewed about his vision for the future. I was excited to hear he'd watched Seaspiracy, and wanted to help fund companies that address our devastated oceans and create new government rules favorable to these types of businesses. This episode offers solutions from my own life experiences building purpose-driven businesses and shifting government policy which can be applied to any large-scale ch...
May 25, 2021•13 min
How AVEGAN Beauty is transforming the $15B animal collagen market
Andrew Alexander interviews AVEGAN Beauty founder Sally Malanga on his Creating a Vegan World Podcast. A long time vegan activist and entrepreneur, Sally is the first vegan Founder to post a public offer on Vegan Launch's new public investment crowdfunding platform. In the interview, she lays out the case against animal collagen, and how AVEGAN Beauty's skincare products and supplements provide a true anti-aging solution without harming animals.
May 18, 2021•30 min
Complete & Incomplete Transactions, Handling Million Dollar Investors for Newbies
A lot of first time founders get into trouble when presented with a seeming opportunity to raise a large amount of money into their seed capital round. Today we introduce the idea of Complete and Incomplete transactions as a framework for all transaction, including large investment checks.
May 16, 2021•15 min
Mark Winstein Interview | Creating a Vegan World Podcast
Andrew Alexander interviews Mark Winstein on his Creating a Vegan World Podcast. We go deep on a number of topics vital to the future of veganism, vegan investing, and the future vegan economy. Best overview of Vegan Launch to date.
May 06, 2021•1 hr 28 min
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