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Retail investors making only a few Crowdcube investments will likely lose money
“So if you're making a couple of early stage investments on Crowdcube, you know, you're probably going to lose your money.”
Late-stage VCs impose aggressive, restrictive terms on companies
“So the later stage VCs will Potentially have quite aggressive agreements with their companies with lots of you know, first rights to any income or to any proceeds at their disposal you know, conditions that the company, tying the company down, what they can do…”
FCA survey shows two-thirds of UK crowdfunding investors lack experience
“I mean, the FCA, which is the regulator here in the UK, they commented on a survey recently, which suggested that I think nearly two thirds of crowdfunding investors admitted they had no previous investing experience.”
Thomas Jones predicts insurance is the next major industry for tech disruption
“Yeah, I think my answer there is probably insurance, and the reason is, and you know, it's a big area, it's boring, it has a lot of data you know, the kind of young startup kids don't tend to focus on it, they focus on retail things.”
Charlotte Street Capital makes five to six investments yearly
“We now find ourselves probably actively making five or six investments a year, and also these days, we tend to, we're trying to both lead the investments, or sometimes actually set the businesses up ourselves, because in some cases, we spot a market opportunit…”