Rothschild, Woodford and Numis signify two giant steps for equity crowdfunding
When business schools students study the evolution of equity crowdfunding in our country, they will see that the last week of July 2015 was a watershed.
Tag: Alternative Finance
Exploring the true power of the crowd – it’s not all about money
By Richard Mann
It seems everybody is doing the crowdfunding thing at the moment. New crowd platforms are popping up everywhere. To avoid being left behind, some business angel networks are partnering up with crowd platforms or even launching into the market themselves.
The best of both worlds Financing a 30m venture capital firm with crowdfunding
Banks are often considered part of the problem for businesses that are struggling to secure money. As such, alternative finance methods – such as crowdfunding – have become a blessing, while venture capital is still a popular way to secure investment. But entrepreneur Mark Pearson has something else in mind – financing a VC firm with the crowd.
Its been another strong week for fans of crowdfunding platforms
By David Craik
We’ve seen a huge £100m investment in Funding Circle, the launch of new site Emerging Crowd targeted at SMEs in developing markets and the creation of SyndicateRoom’s “Investors’ Academy”.
Spot factoring: Another alternative to bank lending
By Simon Brooke
As small businesses look for new ways to raise money from investment other than through bank loans, invoice financing has been growing rapidly. Advocates include Lord Digby Jones, former president of the CBI and a trade minister under the last government.
The time for these business support turf wars is over
By Barry James
With the support Barry James has had in the past often killing the business-line, product or project it was intended to help, he argues that it’s time to put entrepreneurs at the centre of whatever is done in the future.
Alternative finance leapfrogging the legacy banks
By Barry James
Barry James argues that alternative finance is online from the ground up – with no legacy system, no legacy costs and no delays.