Business Loans without Banks An investment through the ThinCats platform involves making secured loans directly to individual businesses and therefore your capital is at risk and interest payments are not guaranteed if the borrower defaults and it transpires that the value of security held to protect against borrower default is insufficient to repay your capital and interest. Your experience of defaults will affect your earnings through lending on the Platform. Please click on the "What are the risks?" Best to invest? Social investment is the provision of repayable finance to charities and social enterprises with the aim of creating social impact, and sometimes generating a financial return. Currently, relatively few grant-making trusts and individual philanthropists (collectively funders) are involved with social investment. These tend to be the larger UK grant-makers with professional staff and enough resources to be innovators in the sector. However, interest in social investment among funders is growing. Deciding if it’s right Funders considering social investment should focus on how it could help them achieve their mission.
Is tapping the crowds the future of funding? Crowd funding matches entrepreneurs with members of the public who are keen to investEnterprises pitch their business plans to potential investors onlineUK-based Crowdcube has so far helped SMEs find almost $450,000 in equity funding (CNN) -- Small and medium size businesses (SMEs) struggling to convince banks to loan them money are turning instead to the masses, in a new strategy being called crowd funding. It works like this: Enterprises pitch their business plans to potential investors online. It allows for a large number of people to contribute smaller amounts, rather than a SME needing to attract a couple of big investors.
How was exploreB2B created exploreB2B was founded in March 2010 by Jonathan and Susanna Gebauer. exploreB2B’s mission is change and drastically improve Business to Business communications worldwide. With this in mind the internetplatform exploreB2B has been developed and was first announced in April 2010. In November 2010 a first public version of the platform was launched for the German market and in January 2012 the international and greatly improved version of the platform was introduced. Partners exploreB2B is currently funded via the “Programm für Forschung, Innovation und Technologie” (Program for Science, Innovation and Technology, ProFIT) by the Berliner Investitionsbank (IBB). For the ongoing development, a close partnership to the Berlin based agency Modus Operandi has been established.
crowdfunding / Crowdfunding Please request to get permission to edit this page. I approve people who appear legitimate so it helps to add a message with your request. Due to overwhelming amount of requests and spam, I am not activating any editors so instead please just send a brief description and URL of the crowdfunding project that you would like listed here. That is the main reason why people want edit access (as opposed to enhancing the article). Thanks. LEAD Wales Our programme has been specifically designed to take account of your needs as a leader or owner-manager of a small to medium sized business or social enterprise. It is delivered from various locations across Wales and addresses the challenges you encounter, recognising and dealing directly with the issues that impact on your business in a dynamic and effective way. We provide you with access to our experienced group development leaders, qualified coaching professionals and expert master class speakers. You will also benefit from the diverse mix of knowledge and experience of your peers. Our Leadership Development programme, is delivered to all eligible leaders and owner-managers without charge. Commercially the programme actual cost is £10,671.
weblog about crowdfunding & crowdsourcing Crowdfunding has many faces; when someone talks about crowdfunding, he or she either means investing, supporting, loaning or donating. The concept of investments, loans and donations are clear, but what is supporting exactly? Crowdfunding creative projects is about supporting: the crowd finances a creative project in return for rewards. For example: in the case of a musician, the reward for a $10 funding could be a copy of a CD, for $25 a signed limited edition of the same CD and for $250 a meet and greet with the musician. There are quite some crowdfunding platforms using this model, especially in the field of creativity. “Crowdfunding is a collaborative funding model; many people give smaller amounts of money to make big things happen“ Slava, IndieGoGo
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