Original Broadcast: Crowdfunders
This is 'Crowdfunders', the show that covers the fast-growing world of alternative finance with Share Radio Analyst Ed Bowsher. In today's show, he looks at a move by crowdfunding site, Syndicate Room, into conventional stock market investing. The idea is that you'll be able to invest via Syndicate Room in companies that are about to list on the stock market, as well as the normal crowdfunding investments that are already on Syndicate Room. Plus he will be talking to Zopa to get more detail about their new product line-up which, for the first time, includes higher risk loans on Zopa. Plus more…
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Original Broadcast: Crowdfunders
This is Crowdfunders - the show that covers the fast-growing world of alternative finance with Ed Bowsher. In today's show, we're going to speak to an 83 year-old man who is raising money via an equity crowdfunding campaign. Also Ed will be looking at what crowdfunding investors look at when they think about investing their cash. Also with some crowdfunding news and a platform profile on Property Partner.
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Original Broadcast: Morning Money at 8:00
Ninety six seconds was all it took to raise £1 million pounds, in Mondo's crowdfund via the Crowdcube platform. The mobile first challenger bank is allowing customers to become shareholders through the initiative. Tom Blomfield is the Chief Executive of Mondo, and he explains what the company does, whilst also looking ahead to the future for the bank and the industry.
Guests: Chris Bailey,Tom Blomfield
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Original Broadcast: Crowdfunders
This is 'Crowdfunders', the show that covers the fast-growing world of alternative finance. In today's show with Ed Bowsher we take a critical look at mini-bonds where companies effectively borrow money from investors via crowdfunding websites. Also looked at is a crowdfunding campaign by a coffee company called Pact coffee. The company's founder claims that Pact's coffee is the best in the UK. And finally, chat with James Codling, who is the boss of a platform called VentureFounders. James talks about VentureFounders and also explains what he thinks the crowdfunding industry needs to do if it wants to mature successfully.
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Original Broadcast: Crowdfunders
In today's show, we look at property with a member of the team at Property Partner, a site that enables you to invest as little as £50 in a residential property. We also look at lending sites where the loan is secured against property. And we'll also be talking to one of the UK's leading financial journalists, Anthony Hilton, for his take on the world of crowdfunding - he's pretty positive
Guests: Anthony Hilton
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Original Broadcast: Crowdfunders
This week in Crowdfunders we're moving into the world of Reality TV. One of the stars of the 'Made in Chelsea' reality show, Jamie Laing, is now crowdfunding for a business he founded. We're also going to look at a firm called Rebus that raised more than £800,000 from investors last year on Crowdcube. Rebus has now gone bust so we'll ask whether these kinds of failure are an inevitable part of equity crowdfunding. And we're also going to talk to another private investor about his adventures as a lender on one of the big peer to peer lending platforms.
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Linda Lewis finds out about a new shaving subscription service, Shavekit, by talking to Tom Harrow and Tom Walker, the brains behind the idea.
Guests: Tim Walker,Tom Harrow
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Sarah Pennells is joined over the phone by Russ Mould of AJ Bell Investment Directors and Robert Lockie of Bloomsbury Wealth Management to discuss stock markets, how to get involved with investing if you're new to the markets, and where to go for advice, only on Share Radio.
Guests: Russ Mould,Robert Lockie
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Sarah Pennells is joined in the studio by a fantastic panel of Young Entrepreneurs, or "YoungPreneurs", to talk about how they got started in business and how they managed their finances as a young person, and also Escape The City to provide useful advice to young people thinking of setting up their own business.
Guests: Ben Towers,Melanie Goldsmith,Tomo Nakamura,Matt Trinetti
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Linda Lewis goes to visit the team at Property Partner, a crowdfunding investment platform for residential property.
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