ECN grows as it launches in Spain, hires two top executives to boost the organization and presents a week-long festival in Italy.
Author: lucasabia
A chartered marketer (MCIM) with an MBA, I am currently pursuing a PhD in Entrepreneurship, focusing on investor behaviour in the context of equity crowdfunding. Teaching all things digital is part of the journey. I blog about the intersection of crowdfunding and sustainability at thisisoliver.co and hold a weekly column on inclusivity on the Italian daily "La Discussione".
Nikhil Rathi is the new Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority
Fintech is set to be one of the priorities for the new course of the financial regulatory body.
How Will The Future of Crowdfunding Look Like?
This is what Kickstarter’s CEO told The Verge.
Doughnut Economics
The brainchild of Kate Raworth, a senior research associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, the doughnut is a way of thinking about economics based on the priorities set out by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Low-quality entrepreneurs seek funding from the crowd, study says
Entrepreneurs who access equity crowdfunding are more likely to fail.
"Systemic shifts require collective intent - something that is still scarce in business communities across the globe. The COVID-19 pandemic has suddenly changed that, and has created the necessary conditions for collective intent. The human race is at a crossroads, and the choices we make now will define future generations and their way of life."
WEF
EU recovery: A new capital markets union strategy to be released next Autumn
Europe wants to mobilise all the resources at its disposal to kickstart the economy, including its financial markets.
Future Fund, Unchained
The British Government ha presented the fund to help startups during the Coronavirus pandemic as the equity crowdfunding industry express some concerns.
Rethinking Sustainability
Can we turn the tide of plastic packaging? (Source: FT)
“People around the world are coming up with ideas on how to solve some of the problems and challenges we’ve faced in the last few weeks. For a lot of people, there’s a lot of time on their hands to do research, there’s a lot of thinking time. It is a perfect time to be doing that.”
Luke Lang, co-founder of equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube, to CNBC
It’s Time To Build
Marc Andreessen shares his views on why every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings.
“The economy is not a machine that can be simply turned ‘on’ and ‘off’. It is a complex system, dependent on billions of relationships that are falling apart.” So opens Reopening Britain, a new paper released today by the Adam Smith Institute.
The Entrepreneurs Network
One For All and All For One
UK crowdfunding leaders are taking paycuts as platforms put a limited number of employees on furlough leave.
Minus 3
Beaten down by the coronavirus outbreak, the world economy in 2020 will suffer its worst year since the Great Depression of the 1930s, says Gita Gopinath, chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
Covid-19: how bad will it be for the economy? | The Economist
With economies in turmoil, how bad will the damage be?
The long-term objective that we have to face up to is this: we have to develop models of collective action that work with the globality of our situation.
Zygmunt Bauman
COVID-19: Oliver* Supports UK Startups
#SaveOurStartups
Capital C
Read, seen and listen in my lockdown.
