Every company should step into an investor’s shoes to evaluate what will excite them and how they can make themselves stand out in today’s market, VentureFounder’s Jamie Beare writes.
Category: Thinkers*
Francesco Di Candio (EPPELA): “Crowdfunding is Steadily Growing in Italy. But There Are Still Too Many Platforms Around.”
Oliver* met the Project Leader of the leading reward-based crowdfunding platform in Italy, Eppela, to talk about the state of the industry in Italy, current trends, challenges and perspectives. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
STUART EMMERSON (SEUK): Crowdfunding is Now Mainstream
Oliver* met up with Stuart Emmerson, Regional Director, West Midlands Social Enterprise UK , the UK body for social enterprise to talk about social enterprises, social finance and the role of crowdfunding.
Kristjan Koik (Flender): “Germany is going to be the biggest market for P2P lenders in three-year time.”
“Brexit is actually a good thing.”
Nancy Kalogeropoulou, Fidor Bank Country Manager UK, on FinTech
AI, VR, API are the key driver for FinTech growth over the coming months.
When Restrictions Offer Opportunity
How Corporate Governance is helping crowdfunding to mature.
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
The Challenges Faced by UK Entrepreneurs When Scaling Up
“To successfully scale is extremely costly.”
The Leopard. Exclusive interview with Invesdor’s Lasse Mäkelä
“We are seeking partners across Europe.” EXCLUSIVE
How is equity crowdfunding evolving?
Crowdfunding has pioneered the way in shaping the modern investment market.
DANIEL SUERO ALONSO (iBAN): “Fintech is revolutionising financial services as Crowdlending is set to become mainstream.”
Oliver* met up with iBAN to discuss about their latest moves and what’s next. EXCLUSIVE.
PEDRO MADEIRA (Beauhurst): “7 things to remember from 2016 and how 2017 equity crowdfunding will look like.”
Oliver* met up with Beauhurst, to discuss about the main trends in the British equity crowdfunding industry in 2016 and what’s next. [EXCLUSIVE]
Victoria Silchenko: platforms owners struggle as Millennials look for the capital G.
Why Equity Crowdfunding Evangelist Victoria Silchenko is so optimistic about the future of equity crowdfunding.
KLEVERLAAN (CrowdfundingHub): “I expect a strong growth of equity crowdfunding over the next 5 years.”
Oliver* met up with Ronald Kleverlaan, Founder and Chairman of CrowdfundingHub, the European Expertise Centre for Alternative and Community Finance, to discuss about equity crowdfunding, current challenges, future scenarios, and a paper produced in partnership with AIG. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW.
Ben Jeffries and the importance of word of mouth in crowdfunding
Why do companies look for “famous individuals”?
Ravanetti (Crowd Valley): “We are reaching a new stage of development for the fintech sector.”
Oliver* met up with Crowd Valley Inc., the leading global digital finance platform provider, to discuss about fintech, current challenges, future scenarios, and a partnership with the European business angels association. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW.
Christian Catalini: “VC slowdown means a test for equity crowdfunding” [VIDEO]
Christian Catalini, Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, explains how venture capital investment has slowed down in many of the verticals since the end 2015. He says that if this is a trend rather than a blip, it will be a good test for the nascent market of equity crowdfunding. Many different models have emerged and platforms have adopted different types of solutions to solve for the problem of information asymmetry. Christian Catalini talks about those models and which ones are seeing the most success.
