The Crowdcube Blog
17
02.2012
Interview with Sue Acton, founder of Bubble & Balm
Sue Acton raised £75,000 for her company, Bubble & Balm in July 2011. She was the first entrepreneur to raise money through the Crowdcube platform. Sue’s company, Bubble & Balm manufactures and supplies a range of Fairtrade certified, natural soaps. Her products were already on the shelves of Waitrose and Oxfam when she commenced her pitch, the investment she required …
15
02.2012
Businesses raise over £2.3 million business finance through Crowdcube
One year since Exeter-based entrepreneurs Darren Westlake and Luke Lang launched Crowdcube, an innovative online equity finance crowdfunding platform, more than £2.3 million has been raised by investors – members of the public and high net worth individuals. So far 11 pitches have successfully funded on the site. The investment is being used to help the successful businesses to grow, …
06
02.2012
How to Write a Winning Funding Business Plan – Part 2: Getting Started
This month’s blog is going to concentrate on how to get started when writing your funding business plan. Staring at a blank page and trying to get inspiration is often very daunting, especially as most people have never had to write a funding business plan before. The most important part of the plan is the executive summary. This page and …
01
02.2012
Startups.co.uk joins Crowdcube’s New Affiliates Programme with its own branded crowdfunding site
Startups.co.uk, the UK’s leading independent online resource for anyone starting a new business, is one of the first small business communities to join the Affiliate Programme of the UK’s only equity-based crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube. Startups.co.uk will launch its own dedicated crowdfunding portal for its community of over 200,000 entrepreneurs and small business owners that use the site each month. Powered …
24
01.2012
Finding Angel Investment Just Got Better Thanks To Crowd Funding
Richard Clarke, Managing Director of Red Advertising Ltd who is completing a pitch via the Crowd Cube Platform, tells us why Crowdcube is the way forward. Richard said “The market place for any business trying to raise capital for equity has always been a minefield. Not least because of the amount of rogue angel support companies that want to extract …