Opportunity and When to Grab it: Lessons from the Best
As angel investors or entrepreneurs, taking advantage of opportunities is essential to the job. But it’s easy to give advice like “seize your opportunities” – it’s harder to see how to actually use that advice in any practical way. It’s only when we see what making the most of opportunities actually means in practice that […]
The Death of the High Street Estate Agent
Esale, The online Estate Agent Music, retail and publishing are just a few examples of industries which have been transformed by the internet over the past two decades. While in 1997 the typical music lover might have gone into HMV or Woolworths to pick up the latest hits on a CD, today’s consumer is more […]
Start Up Communities: How Pooled Effort is the Way Forward
When you’re just starting out, being an entrepreneur can be lonely. The very fact that your job is the business that you have crafted and are passionate about means that you can never quite stop working. The enormous time demands that a business can have when you’re first getting it going can mean that you […]
In a Market of Low Returns, Why It’s Time to Be Bold
After the events of 2016, it’s starting to look like the near future will not offer the same high returns on investments we’ve been used to. Although at the moment the stock market is doing well – the FTSE 100 is currently at an all-time high, and we’re in a bull market – signs are […]
What is Equity Financing, and is it Better than Debt?
If you’re an entrepreneur looking to get financing for your business, the decision between equity and debt can be tricky. You might have done a lot of work on preparing your business to start getting financed – no doubt you’ll have a detailed business plan, a sensible valuation, and a good awareness of your target […]
What Exactly is an Angel Investor?
If you’re new to investing, you might be confused by some of the jargon. “Angel investor” might get thrown around a lot, but what exactly is one? How are they distinguished from other investors who invest in start-ups, like venture capitalists? Well, in a nutshell, angel investors are experienced individuals who invest their own capital […]
Where to Invest Your Money in 2017
After the events of 2016 – the EU referendum result, the election of Donald Trump – it can feel like the future of investment might be very different to what we’ve been used to, and you might be feeling uncertain about where to invest. If the world is becoming more sceptical about free trade, for […]
Why Starting Up is Different to Being a Start-Up
One of the things that put investors off crowdfunding sites is the sense that the companies they’re being asked to invest in aren’t all there yet – are you really investing in an up and running company, or is it only someone’s idea that’s still just on paper? This is why we need to be […]
Dip a Toe Before You Take a Dive; Making Smaller Investments
Alexander Pope may have been talking about literary criticism rather than inexperienced investors, when he wrote the line ‘Fools rush in where angels fear to tread’ way back in the 1700s – but, at Crowd for Angels, we think it applies pretty brilliantly to one of the key mistakes naïve investors make. You see, there […]
Why Peer-to-Peer’s the Smart Investor’s Choice
Think of ‘alternative finance’ and the offbeat, yet well-trodden routes to maintaining long-held wealth might spring to mind – like storing cases of vintage wine in the basement, waiting for their value to rise. Alternatively, you might think of revolutionary new ways of trading, like BitCoin, which has caused an unexpected disruption in the financial […]