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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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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We are often asked why it takes so long to get a decision on a business loan application. The bottom line is that bankers and entrepreneurs are fundamentally different people, what may be an absolute priority to you probably isn’t to your banker. Whichever way you look at it, you are not going to change
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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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Crowdfunding Crowdfunding, also known as peer to peer, or peer to business lending, is a growing source of business finance and one that is steadily increasing in popularity. Business Secretary Vince Cable MP was quoted as saying: “SMEs need access to a range of finance options, including non-bank lending. Those forms of finance are still
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