How the story of Yves Klein can inspire startuppers in establishing their brands. A guest post by Invaluable.
A new research by the British Business Bank and the UK Business Angels Association aims to find out more about it.
How is your start-up preparing for Brexit? What’s your biggest no-deal concern? How can you deal with no-deal?
What It Really Is Like Being an Entrepreneur (Ep. 1)
Goncalo de Vasconcelos, founder of the equity crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom, shares his journey on what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
Entrepreneur Pip Jamieson, founder of The Dots, shares her strategy to get funded.
Following your dreams comes with many challenges. A guest post by Turbo.
Less than 1% of startups survives. Why?
€10.6bn have been invested by VCs in European companies in H1 2019 reporting a+61% YoY. However they prefer to invest in more established businesses.
7 in 10 businesses fail to secure external finance, a study reveals
"The new stance of America’s most powerful CEOs is, of course, welcome. But we will have to wait and see whether it’s another publicity stunt, or whether they really mean what they say. In the meantime, we need legislative reform."
Joseph Stiglitz
FCA provides clarity on cryptoassets regulation.
Politecnico di Milano presented the latest findings on the evolution of the equity crowdfunding market in Italy.
Explaining Blockchain
WIRED challenged political scientist and blockchain researcher Bettina Warburg to explain blockchain technology to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and an expert.
Six inspiring young entrepreneurs have overcome fierce competition to impress the country’s business leaders with their innovation and business capability and have been selected by NEF Fast Track, the UK’s leading entrepreneur development programme, for the prestigious David Pearl Pitch Prize & CVC Young Innovators award.
Results from a study "showed that people with higher wealth were more responsive to financial arguments than moral ones. Prioritising returns is on the one hand what you’d expect from investors in general; at the same time, it’s not what you’d expect if participation in sustainable finance were driven by a charitable impulse."
Source: FT Alphaville
The Dark Side of Crowdfunding
How crowdfunding platforms Kickstarter and Indiegogo are changing their business to prevent creators from never shipping their product.
The prevalence of cash-based payments, account ownership and usage, and savings and credit in the region among the main reasons in regional differences in the adoption of fintech.
Introducing Libra by Facebook (Via TechCrunch)
They’re not called Zuckerbucks but Facebook just reinvented digital money, TechCrunch claim.
A brand-new project promises to revolutionize the industry by creating scale for the benefit of the customer and the industry alike.
A brand-new award helps to find out where positive fintech is going.
