After watching Al Gore’s documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, Victoria Atherton vowed to set up a business to help consumers cut their carbon emissions. Hearing about a new generation of energy-efficient electric scooters, she did some market research, quit her job and began writing the plan for her business, called Urbanites + Scooters. Reluctant [...]
Launched nearly a year ago to connect budding entrepreneurs with angel investors, Angelsden.co.uk already has 1,100 angels and 5,000 entrepreneurs registered on the site. Set up by Lois Cook and her partner Bill, Cook recalls that they launched the site in order to settle a dispute between them: “Bill felt that there weren’t enough [...]
Andrew Ferdinando and Simon Read explored a plethora of funding options before deciding to use their own money to launch Hubworking, a company that rents out conference and meeting rooms to small businesses. “We were probably at too early a stage for VC funding,” Ferdinando says. “We looked into debt but to do that, [...]
Yesterday I blogged about the wonderful grassroots charity Kiva who helps bring together lenders and the working poor so they can have access to microloans to grow businesses in poor countries and live a better life. I have today chosen a entrepreneur and business who requires a loan to expand their business. Mwanshasha is married [...]
A Christchurch-based energy efficient lightbulb seller has raised $10 million from two Australian investors and is about to open its own lightbulb factory in China. Energy Mad, started by a pair of university mates just four years ago, has now expanded into Australia and the United States and has developed a product that it [...]
Not only can John Reid claim to have been visited by angels, he is one. The 61-year-old entrepreneur founded his Parkers Prairie (Minn.) medical-device company, AbbeyMoor Medical, in 1997 with seed money from so-called angel investors. Such people invest in promising startups too young and raw to attract the attention and money of professional [...]
Roar of the Dragons! Many entrepreneurs probably get this reaction often when they pitch their ideas to angel investors. Immediately the entrepreneur is stuck and the conversation usually can turn awkward quickly. How can you avoid this? Put yourself in the investors shoes.1. Angel investors are usually self made millionaires, not billionaires. Why is [...]
AngelsDen the website that brings entrepreneurs and investors together has made its first deal. The entrepreneur who initially posted their business summary online for a fee of £99 on 4 June 2007 is now, five weeks later, celebrating their success in gaining funding for their business PINoptic Limited. The company has produced a novel form [...]
I’m considering looking for investment in bout 12 months time for an online venture i have started, very early days yet. I have been doing some research as i have not took investment before (previously borrowed to fund my startup). It is quite a complicated subject and a decision not to be taken lightly. I [...]
As the midlands is my homeland i thought i would post this excellent opportunity i have come across recently. The Connect Midlands £5 million Investment Challenge is looking for ambitious and innovative companies in the Midlands region wanting free assessment and feedback, and looking to gain equity investment of anything up to £5 million. The [...]