crowdfunding

“What we're seeing is that VCs aren't coming in into a round until it reaches a certain size, and that size is getting larger and larger. So, so what A VC would have done a few years ago, five or 10 even, you know, playing in a two million round. Now they won't…”

“Over 500,000 new businesses were started last year, right? And how many of them are getting funding through crowdfunding? A couple hundred at most.”

“I've asked a lot I've asked Luke Lang, Tom Britton, Crowdcube Syndicate Room, is crowdfunding replacing VC which many think it might do, and that VC value-add is something that cannot be replaced by the crowd, in my opinion, giving it a real sustainable longev…”

“I think it's a very positive step, not so much because of what the Act actually is, because I think it's been greatly diluted from the original principles of when it was proposed. But what it sort of signals to the market about the fact that the alternative fi…”

“If you look at the crowdfunding sort of growth across the world, and I think you'll find UK is actually leading the market in that way before SEC.”

“And I think the economic crisis in 2008, perhaps pushed it along a little bit when Traditional credit was sort of squeezed out, but this would have happened regardless of the 2008 crisis or not.”

“I don't think it's got the potential to replace VC, but as a part of the funding landscape I think it will be around.”

“No, I actually think it helps it. I mean, a lot of the best crowdfunding runs I've seen have been alongside a VC. One. And two I think, you know, there, there's a lot of businesses out there that frankly don't need venture capital. They need capital, but not v…”

“I don't think we think of it in terms of crowdfunding. I often think of crowdfunding as a bit of advertising. I mean, it's great to have that money, but chances are they probably raised around a seed round before that. So it's more about validating the custome…”

“And our hypothesis is, is that crowdfunding will have a very similar narrative arc to blogging to where, you know, 1213 years ago, blogging was this thing that had a lot of hand waving, had a lot of it was on the tips of you know, journalist tongues of the, yo…”

“It's not necessarily a winner-take-all space. You know, I've heard people describe Kickstarter as becoming the Friendstoper space, but I'm not really seduced by that argument. I think that there's room for more than one platform, and they, their models really …”

“And I think that is a very powerful concept, and I think there'll be some very big businesses built over time. And I still think, I think we're still in like the second innings of this space.”

“The press loves to call attention to, I think these sort of sexy, cool trends things like crowdfunding and three printing and that kind of stuff, which I actually, I think is actually a very small part of the story.”

“We built up a lot of confidence that shifting from crowdfunding to membership, which is what Patreon is now, was sort of the right move.”