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Social Investors
We’ll help you find social businesses and enterprises for investment. These firms offer an attractive and innovative way to achieve positive financial and social outcomes. We're launching 'Clearly Social Angels' - the UK's first social business angel network - on March 7th in the House of Commons. Click here to find out how you can join the group and start making angel investments in inspiring social businesses and enterprises. The UK Financial Services Authority (“FSA”), under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 , tightly restricts investment by the general public.Projects « ideas.org
ideas.org incubates a number of startups of members of the ideas.org Team & Network. We also work with our partners and clients to help them incubate their own ideas. Bogged down by organisational bureaucracy and political posturing great ideas can often be stifled in bigger companies.
Interested in becoming a HackFwd startup? Do you have a great idea for a product? Are you a fit with HackFwd? Please read our HackFwd Experience page, which details what we offer, who we look for, what the program feels like, and how you can join us. Our first UK Hackbox Fantasy Shopper is a shopping platform expected to launch October 2011 with high hopes of disrupting the online retail space.
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Seedcamp
Seedcamp is an early stage mentoring and investment program that engages startups through our monthly Seedcamp Events , where entrepreneurs present their companies, network, receive mentoring, and compete for investment by Seedcamp. Yearly, we invest in about 20 companies this way. Our standard investment is 50,000 Euros in return for a 8-10 percent stake in the business. We bring companies to the next level through hands-on support , our network of awesome mentors , and partnership .
The UK Angel Scene: An active angel speaks up
Permjot Valia ( @permjotvalia ) is a prolific angel investor and in 2008 co-founded Flight & Partners. Here he talks about his frustrations with the UK Angel investor scene, especially the anti-entrepreneur ‘pay-to-pitch’ culture. In 2008/09, £44.9m was invested by UK Business Angels registered to Angel Networks in UK based companies. Across the 5,500 registered Angels that is less than £10,000 per Angel. These figures are very poor and do not bode well for future economic growth.
Video of the Week ’How to Find your #Startup’s Addressable Market’ by @jkonowe - In this talk, Josh Konowe, founder and CEO of Uppidy.com, discusses an approach to search for the right businesses in a way that will make you different enough to not just survive but thrive. He explains an ideation process, researching the competitive landscape, and the importance of identifying the actual addressable submarket. Description: The 10th Founder Showcase is scheduled for Tuesday, April 24th at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, and will be our largest event yet. Guests will be treated to talks from leading startup CEOs and investors (TBA), as well as an entertaining Pitch Competition featuring 8 promising seed-stage companies. Use discount code "friends_of_thefunded" for 15% off tickets.
