Research Report on Crowdfunding in UK Released

British FlagIn his second research report on crowdfunding, Ian Youngman has published a new document pertaining to “Equity and Revenue Crowdfunding in the UK 2013”.  Youngman’s first research report covered the Future of Crowdfunding in the UK.

The report is available for purchase on Research and Markets.

While Americans talk about it, Asians investigate it, and Europeans dabble in it – the UK actually uses equity and revenue crowdfunding.

Crowdfunding is an increasingly popular way of financing projects and business ideas through small contributions from a large number of individuals. Crowdfunding is a way of raising funds via specialist online platforms in a climate where raising funds for projects and business ideas through business angels or traditional lending from banks is hard.

The UK is the most advanced country in the world for equity crowdfunding-with almost 40 equity and revenue type platforms.

The potential for use with or instead of traditional lending is huge and is a real new alternative to banks and venture capitalists as their traditional role as gatekeepers to finance is undermined.

This report covers two types of crowdfunding:

– Funding for equity, where the backer gets a share of a company in some way,

– Revenue funding where people share revenue

 



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