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The Gen Z Challenge

Nine in ten Generation Z consumers believe that companies have a responsibility to address environmental and social issues. What are the implications for all of us?

Business, Entrepreneurship, genz, Impact, Leadership, McKinsey&Company, Research

Francesca Passeri (ECN): “Crowdfunding, to foster economic growth in the post-pandemic world.”

But collaboration, education and research are pivotal to succeed.

Alternative Finance, Crowdfunding, ECN, Economic Growth, Economic Impact, ECSP, EIB, ESG, ESMA, eu, European Crowdfunding Network, European Crowdfunding Regulation, European Investment Bank, European Investment Fund, Francesca Passeri, Impact, Interview, Sdg, SMEs, Startups, Sustainable Finance Action Plan

EU: New rules to improve crowdinvestors protection

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will have an enhanced role to facilitate coordination and cooperation.

Crowdfunding, Equity Crowdfunding, ESMA, EU Council, Investor Protection

Future Activists

A study reveals that crowdfunding could encourage future activism in the field of sustainable entrepreneurship and thus help drive global change towards sustainability.

Crowdfunding, Impact, social entrepreneurship, study

Entrepreneurship with collective purpose

How can we move towards a world order where entrepreneurship is in harmony with greater societal good?

Covid-19, Entrepreneurship, Purpose, WEF

An Engine For Change

Many companies have put a priority on pursuing purpose in recent years. Recent research indicate that so too are entrepreneurs.

change, Entrepreneurship, GEM

Business Creation. A Conversation with Paul D. Reynolds

To celebrate the beginning of the Global Entrepreneurship Week 2019, I reached out to one of the most influential global thought leaders in the entrepreneurial research field.

Business Creation, Business Creation Ten Factors for Entrepreneurial Success, Edward Elgar Publishing, Entrepreneurship, Featured, Global Entrepreneurship Week 2019, New, Paul D. Reynolds

Entrepreneurship: Where Media, VCs, and Academia Fail

A new study shows what the age effect in entrepreneurship is and tries to explain why media, VCs and academia are getting the wrong side of the stick.

Benjamin Jones, bill gates, Bring and Page, Daniel Kim, Entrepreneurship, J. Daniel Kim, Javier Miranda, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, New, Pierre Azoulay, Research, Steve Jobs, Wharton

The Story of Yves Klein

How the story of Yves Klein can inspire startuppers in establishing their brands. A guest post by Invaluable.

*Makers, Brand, branding, identity, Infographic, Invaluable, personal branding, Yves Klein

Fundraising Strategies in Equity Crowdfunding

A fundamental question in entrepreneurial finance is what determines the amount of money raised.

Alternative Finance, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Equity Crowdfunding, Featured, Female entrepreneurs, Fintech, fundraising, Male Entrepreneurs, Saïd Business School, Strategies, University of Oxford

What Do Millennial Crowdfunding Investors Want?

Equity crowdfunding platforms keep on growing as Millennials start becoming the biggest investment cluster.

Entrepreneurship, Equity Crowdfunding, Featured, Financial Times, Impact, Industry, Investors, millennials, Personal Wealth

The Soft Power of Crowdfunding

What’s the role crowdfunding can play in the era of populism? The patchwork of many overlapping processes.

brexit, Civic Crowdfunding, Crowdpac, donald trump, European Crowdfunding Network, Featured, Industry, populism, Spacehive

This Professor Uses Crowdfunding to Teach Entrepreneurship

Craighton Berman, a professor at University University of Illinois at Chicago, uses the creation of Kickstarter campaigns to teach his students the full process of launching a product or brand.

*Money, Craighton Bergman, Education, Entrepreneurship, University of Illinois at Chicago

Bill Morrow: “Angels go for passion.”

Bill Morrow on business angels, fintech, startups, Brexit, and why he cannot see equity crowdfunding as a sustainable model. EXCLUSIVE

Angels Den, Bill Morrow, brexit, business angels, Democracy, Dragons Den, Entrepreneurship, Equity Crowdfunding, finance, Fintech, Growing Business, investing, Startup

CMA blocked the merger between the two leaders in the British equity crowdfunding market

The watchdog said the combined company would have at least a 90% share of the market with the risk of higher fees and less innovation.

CMA, Crowdcube, Merger, Seedrs

Wefunder targets Europe

The pan-European rules allow an issuer to raise up to €5 million across all member states.

Crowdfunding, Crowdfundinsider, eu, Wefunder

UK Government To Rescue Tech Startups

The tech sector will be a major focus in the Budget.

Budget, Future Fund: Breakthrough, Rishi Sunak, Tech Startups, uk

FCA To Shield Vulnerable Retail Investors

“We aim to deliver a consumer investment market that works well for the millions of people.”

Cryptocurrencies, derivatives and Contracts for Difference (CFDs), Equity Crowdfunding, FCA, mini-bonds, peer-to-peer lending, uk, unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS), Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs)

Where Is the European Crowdfunding Industry Heading?

ECN Crowdfunding Convention

Crowdfunding, ECN, European Crowdfunding Network

Regulation: FinTech, Mind the Gap

What the Global Covid-19 FinTech Regulatory Rapid Assessment Study tells us about fintech regulation in the pandemics

Centre for Alternative Finance, Fintech, Regulation, University of Cambridge, World Bank

Covid-19: Economic recovery? Relying on banks restricts growth opportunities

On top of traditional entrepreneurial finance channels, entrepreneurs have many other tools at their disposal.

Bank Loans, business angels, Capital Markets Union, Covid-19, ECN, Equity, eu, European Crowdfunding Network, Growth, Private Equity, SMEs, Venture Capital

EU adopts a new set of rules to boost crowdfunding and protect investors

Member states are responsible for authorising and supervising crowdfunding providers.

Crowdfunding, eu, Regulation, SMEs, Startups

Crowdcube and Seedrs will merge. A new chapter for the private equity industry?

The new company name is still unknown

Crowdcube, Equity Crowdfunding, Merger, Seedrs

So, I’ll present at the 4th European Alternative Finance Research Conference

Fingers crossed.

4th European Alternative Finance Conference, Crowdfunding, Research, University of Worcester, Utrecht University

BrewDog goes green as it launches its last crowdfunding campaign

The company aims at raising £7.5 million for a sustainable future before going IPO.

Pitching is about persuading others by telling a story. What’s in it?

To raise funds via crowdfunding or by other means, entrepreneurs have to tell stories. And this is much more effective than just show numbers, studies say.

Crowdfunding, Jennifer Aaker, Persuasion, Pitching

Crowdfunding, it appears, is still going strong

Backers are still eager to support their favorite projects or businesses.

Covid-19, Crowdfunding, Forbes, KickStarter, Wefunder

UK: Equity Crowdfunding in Chiaroscuro

The lack of disposable income casts shadows on the good performance of the industry in the first semester of the year.

2020, Beauhurst, Covid-19, Crowdfunding, Equity Crowdfunding, H1 2020, Investment Industry, uk

Crowdcube launches the Direct Community Offer to solve the lack of liquidity conundrum

The leading equity crowdfuning platform announced the launch of a new secondary product for later-stage companies.

Crowdcube, Crowdfunding, DCO, Direct Community Offer, Equity Crowdfunding, Household Brands, Secondary Market

How Seedrs is trying to make equity crowdfunding a more liquid place

To attract more investors.

Equity Crowdfunding, Jeff Lynn, Secondary Market, Seedrs

Why we need to rethink capitalism after the Coronavirus pandemic

Gita Gopinath, Sharan Burrows, and Jennifer Morgan give some ideas about how the world can change in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Source: WEF)

Capitalism, Covid-19, WEF

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