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20 VC 020: Revolutionising Investing with Luke Lang, Co-Founder of Crowdcube

20 VC 020: Revolutionising Investing with Luke Lang, Co-Founder of Crowdcube

FromThe Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch


20 VC 020: Revolutionising Investing with Luke Lang, Co-Founder of Crowdcube

FromThe Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

ratings:
Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Mar 16, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Luke Lang is Co-Founder and CMO of Crowdcube, the world's leading investment Crowdfunding platform. Crowdcube enables anyone the opportunity to invest alongside professional investors in start-up, early-stage and growth businesses. They have raised over £67m for an incredible 207 companies and have an amazing 150,000 registered investors
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What you will learn in today's episode:

How Luke got into the technology industry and really came to be Co-Founder to the world's 1st quit Crowdfunding platform in the world?
Other than capital what else will Balderton bring to you to aid your growth and development?
Does Luke believe Crowdfunding is a competing finance model to the traditional VC model?
Having seen 207 companies experience successful Crowdfunding campaigns, Luke describes what he believes the formula to be for a successful campaign?
For businesses thinking about Crowdfunding, what are the biggest benefits to businesses of raising seed capital through the Crowd?
With the increasing number of Crowdfunding sites, how does Crowdcube treat the competitive threat?
Is there an opportunity to attract more institutional style money to Crowdcube through retail bonds, which might appeal to income funds.

As the interview comes to a close we engage in a quick fire round where we hear Luke's views on the hardest obstacle Luke has faced in building Crowdcube? Where Luke sees Crowdcube in 5 years time? 3 companies funded by Crowdcube that Luke is most excited about?
Released:
Mar 16, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The Twenty Minute VC takes you inside the world of Venture Capital, Startup Funding and The Pitch. Join our host, Harry Stebbings and discover how you can attain funding for your business by listening to what the most prominent investors are directly looking for in startups, providing easily actionable tips and tricks that can be put in place to increase your chances of getting funded. Although, you may not want to raise funding for a startup. The Twenty Minute VC also provides an instructional guide as to what it takes to get employed in the Venture Capital industry, with VCs giving specific advice on how to get noticed from the crowd and increasing your chances of employment. If that wasn't enough our amazing Venture Capitalists also provide their analysis of the current technology market, providing advice and suggestions on the latest investing trends and predictions. Join us so you can see how you can get BIG, powerful improvements, fast. Would you like to see more of The Twenty Minute VC, head on over to www.thetwentyminutevc.com for more information on the podcast, show notes, resources and a more detailed analysis of the technology and Venture Capital industry.