Crowdfunding I spend a lot of time talking about crowdfunding and what it can help your business achieve. I talk about equity funding, debt or reward crowdfunding. So, to try and make things a little more tangible and easier to understand then here are a few ‘live’ pitches on leading equity crowdfunding site, Crowdcube. This proposal
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Crowdfunding Specialist Award Stop the press!! Lime Consultancy have just been named Acquisition International Magazine ‘Crowdfunding Specialist Adviser of The Year’ in their M&A awards 2014. For anyone who is not aware, crowdfunding is the fastest growing business finance sector in the UK, now we are officially 2014’s Specialist Crowdfunding Advisers! Lime Consultancy owner Dave
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Crowdfunding, Not a Modern Thing For most people, crowdfunding has been something that has come to the fore in the last few years. Stories of electric bikes, lego cars, solar powered TVs, 3D Printers etc have all made the news for being projects financed through crowdfunding. However, crowdfunding is not a modern thing. In 1885
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Introduction On the surface crowdfunding appears to simply be a social media marketing mechanism that integrates a potential online community with an accounting function. Closer examination of a crowdfunding campaign shows a unique marketing opportunity that requires business owners to promote their companies, using social media, to new audiences. This organized promotion increases the campaign’s
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The Case Of The FCA vs Crowdfunding The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are starting to make their mark on the UK financial industry. In the last few years the UK has seen an unprecedented level of financial innovation. The market is seeing more new entrants, privately funded lenders, peer to peer and crowdfunding platforms. Crowdfunding
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What Is Crowdfunding If you are unsure what crowdfunding is then watch the 90 second video at the end of this post. In effect there are two types of crowdfunding, these are; Debt Finance (borrowing and repaying) Equity Finance (investment in your business) Debt Finance takes the shape of an ordinary business loan, maybe invoice
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Alternative business loans are fast becoming less of an alternative and forming a key supplier of good business finance. Peer to Peer lending, or crowdfunding as it is sometimes know is fast establishing itself as a key route to finance for small and medium sized businesses. In 2013 one supplier lent £120m to UK business.
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Benefits Of Crowdfunding We have talked about what crowdfunding is before, now we take a look at the benefits of raising business finance through crowdfunding. In our opinion there are two main benefits to using crowdfunding to raise business finance, we will now explain why we think these are real benefits over traditional bank finance.
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