Monthly Archives: October 2014

Twice As NISA – CityAM Helps Spread Crowdfunding Word

Getting the word out – awareness levels are growing, but there’s a way to go The word is spreading. Crowdfunding, despite its obvious benefits (obvious to us, at least), is relatively little known. Awareness levels show that owners of small businesses and investors generally know little about the simple process of bringing individuals and businesses […]

Crowdfunding Savers – No “Terrifying Possibility” Just “Decent Rates”

Geeting our point across – Money&Co. CEO Nicola Horlick spreads the word on crowdfunding  The message is clear: low interest rates are creating huge problems for savers and investors dependent on deposit account yields (as reported here earlier). People dependent on income from annuities (fixed-income instruments that used to be an automatic accompaniment of a […]

Make No Mistake: High Levels Of Interest Are Essential

Effective crowdfunding is about message depth – speaking directly to a specific interest group The UK Crowdfunding Association’s recent evening on how NOT to do crowdfunding was illuminating. Alternately light-hearted and deadly serious,  more than a dozen short presentations (the longest was eight minutes, most were just five minutes) whizzed by in well under two […]

The Lost Fertility Debate – Are We Freezing Women Out?

Egg freezing – “a truly bizarre employee benefit” How do business-owners and managers decide what employee benefits to offer?  This week, Apple and Facebook told the world that they were offering $20,000 to female employees who wanted to freeze their eggs.  This is a truly bizarre employee benefit and is not one that I would […]

The Crowd Comes For A Fancy Breakfast – And Some Plain English

Crowdfunding came to Hertfordshire for breakfast this week. A select Money&Co. team, headed by CEO Nicola Horlick, spread the word to 101 attendees at a very engaging and interesting event. Our message is simple: we bring people together with businesses – so that businesses can get the funds they need to grow, and individual investors […]

Crowdfunding’s Talkfest With A Twist

The crowd gathers for a series of confessional tales in Haymarket Tonight promises to be a fun evening, as crowdfunding comes to London’s West End. It’s a talkfest with a twist, hosted by the UK Crowdfunding Association (UKCFA). The UKCFA flags tonight up this way: “[Crowdfunding is]  a young industry, but fast-moving, and with more […]

Inspirational Acclaim For Crowdfunder Women

Emma Sinclair, co-founder of Enterprise Jungle, was among the inspirational… A small team from Money&Co. was delighted to attend last night’s event for inspirational buinesswomen at Mulberry’s beautifully appointed Bond  Street offices in London’s West End. As trade journal Alt Fi reports, “of the 30 entrepreneurial thought-leaders that make up the show case, 10 per […]