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
Category Archive: Thinkers*
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.
“Brexit is actually a good thing.”
AI, VR, API are the key driver for FinTech growth over the coming months.
How Corporate Governance is helping crowdfunding to mature.
Bill Morrow on business angels, fintech, startups, Brexit, and why he cannot see equity crowdfunding as a sustainable model. EXCLUSIVE
“To successfully scale is extremely costly.”
“We are seeking partners across Europe.” EXCLUSIVE
Crowdfunding has pioneered the way in shaping the modern investment market.
Oliver* met up with iBAN to discuss about their latest moves and what’s next. EXCLUSIVE.
Oliver* met up with Beauhurst, to discuss about the main trends in the British equity crowdfunding industry in 2016 and what’s next. [EXCLUSIVE]
Why Equity Crowdfunding Evangelist Victoria Silchenko is so optimistic about the future of equity crowdfunding.
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.
Why do companies look for “famous individuals”?
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, 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.
